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[webpositionexpert]

Hi all
Hope you had a good weekend. I was just requesting some links and received the following -
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Could you put us on a page that is not called links.htm, link.html, link.php, etc.

Google does not like those pages. Any page at all is fine as long as it does not have the word "link" in it. We appreciate it and you do get a very good link in return from us.



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This does not make logical sense to me (but not many things do hahaha)
Can someone please confirm if this is correct or incorrect?

Thanks

Simon

[qwerty]

There was talk of that a few months back. People were noticing that when they ran a backlink check in Google, links on pages with the word "link" or "links" in their name weren't coming up.

Nowadays, the standard backlink check is even screwier than that, but the don't-call-your-links-page-"links" concept seems to have gone away.

[flyer]

I'll bet the file name had nothing to do with it. The links command is fairly worthless anyway.

[kashyap_rajput]

I hope so, but still i decided to change something like "reciprocal links" or "rec. links" etc etc.

kashyap

[magellan]

If I get requests like that they then get binned

[linux_lover]

I tend to call my links page 'directory' or 'resources' personally...

[seafoam]

On my latest site, I call it "Sites I Like" and use a directory called Sites_I_Like.

If nothing else, it reminds me not to include links to sites I don't like, or don't think my visitors will like.

[Diniz]

dir/ is nice and short and puts your links pages(s) in a seperate dir ready for expansion.

[Debra]

I've heard them called:

Our Links
Link Partners
Resources
Partners
Sites You'll Like
Library
More Information
For Your Convenience
Stuff You Might Like
Etc....
Yada Yada


Ok, that last one I just threw in since I say it all the time, but you get the idea!!

Think about having the name of your links page fit the type of site you have. If you offer an e-commerce site, using words like "partners" and "resource" may sound better than "sites you'll like" or "stuff you might like".

[OldWelshGuy]

Albert, I think that is a good name. It says, reliable old man to me

[Debra]

Then you should have used "James" instead of Albert........... old man..........

[torka]

My links page wants to be a woman, so I call it Loretta.

(Sorry, I haven't had lunch yet and seem to be going a bit light-headed...)

--Torka

[qwerty]

When I was in school I had a radio show called "Ethel". No lie.

It did cause a small amount of confusion, though. The DJ before me would announce I was coming on by referring to "Bob and Ethel" and I started getting mail for "Bobbin Ethel," like that was my air name or something.

My links page, however, is called "seo-resources.htm". I changed it from links.htm back when there was all that talk about this stuff, and I don't think it really made any difference.

[Debra]

My links page, however, is called "seo-resources.htm". I changed it from links.htm back when there was all that talk about this stuff, and I don't think it really made any difference.

The proof is in the pudding.html..... :doh: !!

[lighter]

Is it really the case that we should not have a "links" as the filename?