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September 15, 2005

The Hidden Pitfalls of Reciprocal Linking

It's been fairly widely predicted that reciprocal links will lose their effectiveness as search engines get better at detecting and discounting them. Via ThreadWatch, there may be another reason for cutting back, at least on the email link requests.

From maxd:

So we sent a request for a link trade to the wrong guy and he reported it as spam. Now Godaddy suspended 24 domains and is asking $199 each to get them back, a total of $4776 USD.

I guess the lesson here is to get on the phone if you want to do business, and not leave a paper trail that can be used against you, either legally or just to mock you for fun (found via highrankings).


[update] looks like rustybrick riffed on the same topic earlier today.

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