| Question - How long will it take
for my link popularity to increase? |
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| Answer - The internet is huge! Even so, the search
engines spider the entire internet in about a month. So you say, that
in one month your new links then will logically be present. Not so
fast!
Every web page page on the internet can have what is known as a
"revisit meta tag" in the header of their pages. Most
links pages will have this "revisit meta tag", which instructs
the search engines how frequently to re-visit each page, set for
30 or 60 days. Add one month to visit all of the websites on the
entire internet, plus up to 60 days for links pages to be revisited
and presto - no more than 90 days later all your links will be present.
Hold on! Don't forget there is a human element involved. While
you may request to exchange reciprocal links today. And the site
you want to exchange with may be advertising the exchange of reciprocal
links. The owner of the website you are exchanging links with may
not even place your link on their page for weeks, if at all! Remember
everyone is busy doing their main business and typically have to
play catch up with things like their websites. The reciprocal linking
website owner probably doesn't program his or her own site and there
you go another delay, waiting for the link request to be transferred
to a third party design firm.
It can take many months until all of your requested reciprocal
links register with the search engines.
As you may imagine exchanging links is a very time consuming affair.
Even more so if you are inexperienced. Why not let us run your link
exchange program for you. Click here to see our plans!
Please note: that all reciprocal links do not register with all
engines. Google for example currently only displays links coming
from pages that exceed their minimum page rank! While it is said
that they do give credit for all inbound links. |
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| Question - What if I don't want
a links page and out bound links on my website? |
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| Answer - Well you could purchase links from other
websites. The cost to purchase a link from another website is typically
$35/year and up. So at a minimum you can see that 100 links would
cost approximately $3,500/year.
A reciprocal link has a cost as well. It takes time to establish
a reciprocal link arrangement. Normally a few emails must be exchanged
to request, agree to and eventually confirm the links have been
placed.
In either case the cost in time is about the same to find either
potential reciprocal link partners or websites which sell outbound
links and establish the links.
The difference is the annual cost of purchasing links versus the
initial cost of establishing somewhat permanent links. |
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| Question - If I add links today
- am I finished working on my website's link popularity? |
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| Answer - Well yes and no! If you add a sufficient
number of links to be competitive for the keywords and search terms
and market you are targeting, then you are done.
However the internet is a dynamic situation with new websites being
added frequently. If you add enough links to be competitive today
and your competition does not add more links and newcomers do not
become a factor then yes you are done.
However you may need to add new links in the future. For very competitive
categories like real estate, links are added to the higher ranking
sites on a weekly basis - in order to maintain their superiority
in the search engine results for their targeted keywords! |
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