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[Scottie]

He is definitely on something...

Welcome Lee. I don't think we can respond to your question properly without more details. I'm guessing that the sites link to other sites in the group and not to each other directly, thereby making them unreciprocated links, but still swapped equally. Is that what you are getting at?

[Steve Sardell]

Hey Scottie,

You and Amabaie have basically the same thought, radomization. But this strategy is not new. Has there been a defined correlation exhibiting a greater benefit to having equal out going and incoming non reciprocating links versus an equal number of themed recips? If there has been a study I would love to read it.

There has been some discussion re weight placed on out going site topic relevant links. But, as far as I have read it is still all conjecture.

[Scottie]

It's not my idea! Just trying to figure out what Lee is getting at. Link mapping can identify link networks pretty easily though, so I think that is a tricky one to call.

[Jill]

Lee, you'll need to tell us exactly what it is first. If you can't do that, then I guess we're at a standstill.

Jill

[amabaie]

Randomization would work only if the pool was big and the percentage of links from any one member was very small. Like Scottie says,

It's not my idea! Just trying to figure out what Lee is getting at.

Unless I had 100% control over the links going out from my page, I would not even consider such a system. That would be the absolute pre-deal breaker. Beyond that, I would have to see more details before making any further comment.

[awall19]

I think it would be a good idea to have non recip when poissible, but it would not hurt if you had to reciprocate. One technique which I have seen used to improve rankings is to offer links from a directory located at a site with a person's middle initial in it and then ask for links back to the site without that initial.

Eventually as search engines get smarter they will be able to examine beyond the liniarity of a single link. Setting up a directory which will be used to send reciprical links to another site may be effective in the short term, but eventuall increased processor power and more advanced algorithms will treat such linking systems in a way similar to recip links.

[Scottie]

If/when/at all the LocalRank patent ever comes into play, reciprocal links for sites that appear in the same SERP will make both sites benefit. There are a lot of other factors in that (including the removal of dup content and same ip blocks), but it would make reciprocal linking among truly relevant sites a bonus.