[jheg]

I am almost finished with a site I am building and one of the pages I am building is a legal guide to moving home. I have drafted in the help of a local solicitor firm to help me do this and have agreed to have their logo on that page with a link to their site. I would also like a link from their site to mine but would this be frowned upon from a SEO point of view? or would it be good SEO. The reason I ask is because I seem to remember reading somewhere that linking to each others sites is not good for SEO.

[neil0wen]

jheg, on 23 February 2011 - 12:26 PM, said:

I am almost finished with a site I am building and one of the pages I am building is a legal guide to moving home. I have drafted in the help of a local solicitor firm to help me do this and have agreed to have their logo on that page with a link to their site. I would also like a link from their site to mine but would this be frowned upon from a SEO point of view? or would it be good SEO. The reason I ask is because I seem to remember reading somewhere that linking to each others sites is not good for SEO.

It is a well known fact that one way links are better, but there is also not doubt that although link exchange is not quite as effective it will still have a big impact on your SERPs position and only in a good way (as long as your not linking to banned websites).

[jheg]

Thanks for the reply neil - That was kind of the answer I was really hoping for! I planned to write a unique page for the solicitor site that links back to mine. Thanks again!

[readymademlm]

Linking to other sites is beneficial but need care.
Link can hurt PR.

[Akshay kumar]

Hello,

I read your views about seo very interesting. But I want ask you something about seo, How can I increase seo knowledge and created new networks links. I m doing link building many times but still time i have not learned enough technique for link building. So How can I increased my technique for link building and also seo.

[Avera]

jheg, on 23 February 2011 - 12:26 PM, said:

I am almost finished with a site I am building and one of the pages I am building is a legal guide to moving home. I have drafted in the help of a local solicitor firm to help me do this and have agreed to have their logo on that page with a link to their site. I would also like a link from their site to mine but would this be frowned upon from a SEO point of view? or would it be good SEO. The reason I ask is because I seem to remember reading somewhere that linking to each others sites is not good for SEO.

It is not true that reciprocal linking has little value. Google does indeed treat reciprocal linking with some weight, if, and only if, the sites are content related.

I.e. a plumber who has a links page and links to the local pub and local farmer will carry no weight at all, however, two solicitors linking to each other is favourable.

[rallport]

Avera, on 31 March 2011 - 12:40 PM, said:

I.e. a plumber who has a links page and links to the local pub and local farmer will carry no weight at all, however, two solicitors linking to each other is favourable.

That's a common misconception, all link within reason carry weight.

For example, I have a site about autism (PR 5) linking to us (a web company) and that knocks us up several places in the serps.

[enni]

You can put your link in other site but there is a risk because it can damage your page rank. So be careful while putting the link in other sites.

[hfmovies]

Best not to link to their stations as their own station, it will reducepr.

[rallport]

Also, bing actually ranks you on what sites you link to - so linking to a reputable site gives you a plus point in bing.

[Jasa Pembuatan Web]

readymademlm, on 05 March 2011 - 06:33 AM, said:

Linking to other sites is beneficial but need care.
Link can hurt PR.

Yes you right man... my site loosing PR from 4 to 2 .. sad..

[jheg]

rallport, on 27 August 2011 - 05:39 PM, said:

Also, bing actually ranks you on what sites you link to - so linking to a reputable site gives you a plus point in bing.

That's interesting I didn't know that! Its funny actually that when I'm tracking key words Bing & Yahoo, 90% of the time give exactly the same result and position for my keywords and the position compared to Google is much higher. For example for the term independent mortgage advice on Bing we are 19th but in Google we are 44th and it seems from the tracking that I have done that with Bing and Yahoo you can get to the top end very quickly where as Google takes a little longer to reach the same heights but usually does get to the same position within a few weeks.

Anyone else noticed this trend with the sites?