If you have your own blog or website, you will often be looking for ways to spread the word about your site. Reciprocal linking is just one of the ways to promote your business. If you know of a site that is in the same niche as you, you could offer reciprocal links. You would link to their site on your site, and they would do the same for you.
This linking can be done with text only, creating a hot link or it could be an image link. Image links are always better because many readers are very visual people. Their eyes will go to an image before going to text. Text linking certainly does help and should not be discounted if image linking is not possible.
Most often, you will give (and receive!) a link in the sidebar of the website. These links are a good way of pointing out worthy websites for readers to check out. People who are serious about their websites do NOT just add link after link after link. The message you should be sending to your readers is that ALL the links in your list are sites which your readers will enjoy and hopefully learn from.
If you have websites that you faithfully read every few days, think about sending the site owner an email. Ask them if they would be open to doing a reciprocal link with you. The worst thing that can happen is they decline. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!
Reciprocal linking not only works with sites in the same niche, you will find that it can work with other sites as well. Generally the more popular the site is, the weaker the chance of reciprocal linking. Your site needs to bring something to the table, so to speak, and usually very popular sites will not link with a site that has a much lower page rank than their own. You just don’t have enough traffic to direct to their site.
What DOES work on those popular well read sites, is to leave comments on their sites. That’s the subject of another post.
For now, think about reciprocal linking and start brainstorming website owners you can get in contact with.
This site is open to reciprocal linking! If you have a site that you think More Dollars at Home would fit well with, send me an email with your URL. We may well be able to do a link with each other.
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