You Are Being Lied About Reciprocal Links!

If you maintain a website online seek to market it, you may have been told or even offered reciprocal links. Most advertisements promise that such a venture can get more people to go to your site, raise your search engine rankings, and add to consumer and surfer interest in your product, service, or craft. What are reciprocal links? Reciprocal linking, as the name implies, is just exchanging links with a website selling products or services similar to yours. They will promise to post your link on their site if you promise to post their link on yours. Visitors to your site will most likely visit theirs, and visitors to their site will most likely visit yours. Just how effective are reciprocal links? Are they all hype? Are you, as the careful web designer and developer, being told everything about them? The aim of most reciprocal link exchangers is to increase their site's search engine rankings. However, according to a study, finding sites on search engines contributes only about 15% to a website's traffic. Reciprocal linking, then, will not get you traffic through search engine ranking. So what purpose does reciprocal linking serve? It can get you traffic, but only and mostly if people click on your site's link from someone else's site. How can you substantially increase your traffic through reciprocal linking? If your link appears in as many other sites as possible. This will mean that you have to list a great number of links yourself