Comments on: Think Links! http://chrishornak.com/blog/think-links/ Thoughts, Theories and the Science of SEO Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Christina Keffer http://chrishornak.com/blog/think-links/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Christina Keffer Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:04:52 +0000 http://chrishornak.com/blog/?p=11#comment-2 Google, in a very self defeating way, seems to have put a halt to freely linking. For one thing, link juice leaks out through ever followed link lowering a site's PR. For two, "link exchanges" are particularly frowned upon. (Even if the two sites are legitimately related.) But at the same time, Google wants to encourage links as votes from one site to another. You can't have it both ways. I say link to anything worthwhile and relevant. Google, in a very self defeating way, seems to have put a halt to freely linking.

For one thing, link juice leaks out through ever followed link lowering a site’s PR. For two, “link exchanges” are particularly frowned upon. (Even if the two sites are legitimately related.) But at the same time, Google wants to encourage links as votes from one site to another.

You can’t have it both ways.

I say link to anything worthwhile and relevant.

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