Blog linking network

[blogdrift]

I have been strolling around the net for a long time, run some huge forums, hand full of fairly successful blogs, myspace and facebook accounts. But that was all a few years ago now.

I have recently returned and starting my net career again from scratch.

As such I have been getting up to speed with new google bot coding and varying weightings of the wide backlinking methods and a few things are really shinning through:

No one is helping each other. Of course we all want a piece of that huge pie (users / customers) to click away on our links and ads and earn us some money. But for the little guy its next to impossible to really get off the first few steps and really crank yup that page rank.

Im curious why people dont work together. obviously you have a good community here and yes I'm totally new but why doesnt anyone work to help each other. Surely even 10 or so bloggers properly linking their entire stock together would see a network wide traffic increase amd PR hike. I could be wrong and reading the info the wrong way.

Anyways mini rant over.

But if anyone is interested in helping to create a truely unique networking system where everyone links to everyone with the greater good in mind and not just in it for themselves 100% then please pm me or drop a post here.

Even if you use the proposed network to help boost traffic and ranking for your money site. Surely its a win win situation.

[Nomad Blogger]

That is so true, you’ll often find, as I have witnessed myself that whenever you ask advice or help, some people will offer you a service rather than help, nothing comes for free these days I suppose, especially on the net, time is money.

On a personal note, I am thinking of link exchange with some bloggers, however I still have a little more research to do into the issue and what kind of blogs to link to, so before anything I follow the blog and see before making any decisions what the poster writes about.

What is your idea, or the service, product you offer? Or do you mean you looking for partners?

Im sure there are many people who maybe interested, hope it works out, best of wishes!

[ChickenFreak]

Originally Posted by blogdrift

Im curious why people dont work together. obviously you have a good community here and yes I'm totally new but why doesnt anyone work to help each other. Surely even 10 or so bloggers properly linking their entire stock together would see a network wide traffic increase amd PR hike. I could be wrong and reading the info the wrong way.

I don't think this would work. I don't think this should work. Google knows that this is an obvious strategy, and Google writes their algorithms to defeat strategies that are based on "get more traffic". Google wants to give high rankings to genuinely high-quality sites, sites that attract _natural_ traffic and natural links, not manufactured traffic and links from some sort of mutual linking strategy.

Links should not come from, "Fred linked to me, so I'll link to Fred." They should come from, among other natural motivations, "Wow, Fred has a _great_site and it completely ties in with my subject; my readers would really want to see his content, too. I'll add him to my blogroll." And that blogger adding Fred to his blogroll _should not care_ whether Fred is also linking to him.

[ChickenFreak]

Posting again to add more detail: For example, I have a blog where I post some of my writing, so I link to a number of writing sites, such as Author! Author!. That link direction makes sense - other writers might read my site, and those other writers might want advice about writing, so they'd follow my link to Author! Author!

But a reciprocal link wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. There are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of aspiring writers out there, and I'm no one special in that group. There's no reason why Author! Author! would ever link back to me. It's natural for me to link up to Author! Author!; it's not natural for that site to link down to me.

And _that_ natural hierarchy is how Google knows which sites are more important. Author! Author! is far more important than me. That fact is reflected in its pagerank; it's a PR 4 and my writing site doesn't even have a pagerank.

And why is Author! Author! more important? Because it's _great_. Because it offers fantastic, nearly unique content that's needed and valued by that sea of aspiring writers. It didn't earn its position through linking and pagerank games, it earned it through content.

If I aspire to a higher pagerank, the path to success is not a lot of fancy linking games; the path to success is _content_.

[Melody]

ChickenFreak is totally right. You can't game Google into a PR 4 or above with a bunch of link farm links (most so called directories!), blog roll listings, or link exchanges.

Mostly you would be wasting your precious time.

What you need to increase your page rank is natural, high quality, contextual links to your blog - A perfect example of this is when a news source cites to your blog. If your content is amazing, this could happen.

One single link from a PR 4 or 5 cite will even help. But you cannot get to be a PR 4 without some amazing back links that will be all CONTENT driven. You can't game it.

Just as a caveat though, there still are a few directories that have a very high PR that might help your google PR. I'm referring to alltop.com, Yahoo! directories, technorati.com directories and a few others.

But most directories and link exchanges are a total waste of time.

(I truly apologize for the shameless self promotion but if you don't understand what a natural contextual back link from a high ranked site is, here is an example: Quite a surprise - A tiny back link from the New York Times to my blog)

[desibabs4u]

Yes I am interseted ,when you are starting?

[Techmaker]

Originally Posted by ChickenFreak

I don't think this would work. I don't think this should work. Google knows that this is an obvious strategy, and Google writes their algorithms to defeat strategies that are based on "get more traffic". Google wants to give high rankings to genuinely high-quality sites, sites that attract _natural_ traffic and natural links, not manufactured traffic and links from some sort of mutual linking strategy.

Links should not come from, "Fred linked to me, so I'll link to Fred." They should come from, among other natural motivations, "Wow, Fred has a _great_site and it completely ties in with my subject; my readers would really want to see his content, too. I'll add him to my blogroll." And that blogger adding Fred to his blogroll _should not care_ whether Fred is also linking to him.

Absolutely through. Once I participated with several link exchange programs. But after few days I looked in to my link on those sites. Most of them are removed. They are removing our links after notifying us. So I removed all the links except few. So no one want to help others. Then what should you do to get back links? I found the solution. That is making really good content for your readers. Don't focused on search engines, focus your readers. Then you will gain good rank in blogsphere easily.

Happy blogging...!!