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    newtvail
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    Posted: 2006-Feb-19 18:17
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    Are pages of reciprocal links now being actively penalized by any/some/all of the major search engines or are they just moving them toward neutral as far as page/site ranking are concerned?

    Also, as noted in the title, what should be done with existing links pages at this point in time?
    - Strip them to only the very few that actively add value to the site
    - Keep them as is
    - Keep them but set for bots to ignore (in case the rules change next week)
    - ????

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    Posted: 2006-Feb-19 20:08
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    Are pages of reciprocal links now being actively penalized by any/some/all of the major search engines

    I don't think the search engines are targeting them specifically and penalizing them. But, the value of links from off-topic reciprocal links pages is not as high as it used to be.

    As for your current links pages and what to do with them, I would keep them and make sure that there's not a lot of outgoing links on them (keep it to under 25 or so). If you have more than 25 outgoing links on the page I would make a new page if necessary. Also, I would add content to the page as well so that it's not just a "page full out links".



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    Posted: 2006-Feb-19 20:57
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    Thanks. I think I'll do just that. We bought a recip-links package before I found this site and learned that lots of what I knew a few years ago no longer applies.

    Truthfully, I like the direction the engines are taking these days with site content and people-useful pages being the way forward.


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