The idea for Automatic Backlinks was born out of frustration trying to manually find link partners.
At the time we were working for a client trying to get their site ranked for particular keywords. Even though we were outsourcing the work to India it was painfully slow and painfully obvious that the effort put in was nowhere worth the reward: a reciprocal PageRank 0 link inside someone’s link directory.
The problems with manual link exchange are manifold:
- Reciprocal links are largely ignored by Google (which results in some people resorting to complicated 3 way link schemes)
- You need to monitor that your link partner keeps his end of the bargain
- You almost have to resort to spam in order to find link partners
- It is extremely time consuming
- 99% of all links are PageRank 0 and often considered bad link neighbourhoods
These problems sparked the idea for Automatic Backlinks which solves all of these issues and it seems that Web Masters are realising this as well.
A quick comparison on Google trends shows that searches for “link exchange” are in decline and that searches for “backlinks” are increasing. In fact “backlinks” is now searched for more than “link exchange”. I believe the decline for “link exchange” shows that Web Masters and SEO professionals are realising that traditional manual link exchange simply does not work, but people realise that they need to get “backlinks” somehow if they want to rank so they are now searching for that instead.
We of course welcome this change as we provide what we believe to be the best platform for getting relevant, quality backlinks – all 100% free and automatic. We only provide PageRank 1 or above backlinks so you know that there will be no bad link neighbourhoods. Should you lose a backlink because someone shuts down their site – we will provide you with a different link from one of our more than 10,000 websites automatically.
It is no wonder manual link exchange is a dying trend.
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Link exchanges are definately dying and social media is the new playground for gathering links – it’s a lot more efficient than e-mailing webmasters and the results benefit a website in quality links, targeted traffic and brand building.
Complimenting that with automatic backlinks should create a powerful link portfolio
So many new avenues for gaining backlinks have become popular recently including blog commenting, social bookmarking and others. I think a lot of people are also scared to be penalized for link exchanging because they are unsure how the mysterious Google formula works.
I’ve been doing exchange links manually before so it’s really great info for me thanks. My site has PR4 now and I’m looking forward for PR5.
cheers.
I cant accepted this points “Reciprocal links are largely ignored by Google”. because on of my competitor is mostly do like this and he is websites got a good SERP position in Google.. but here your are explained about link exchange is not worth. when i read this article now I’m getting so much confusion really. after analyzed and i will come with good solution..
Drupal programmers, I think that it is important to understand that we are talking about 1 to 1 reciprocal links. So that site A links to site B and site B links to site A. You need to make it at least a triangular exchange for it to have a good effect.