Banning Solved no Problem: The Law of Supply and Demand

Banning never solved any problem in its entirety. As long as there’s a demand for a particular product, service or good, the industry will exist, albeit underground. The existence of industries relies upon the law of supply and demand. While there are things which should remain banned, text links have only be egregious to the […]

Why The Best Text Links Are Free

From specialized text link networks, let’s go back to the basics to be reminded of what link exchange is really all about. It is a fact that the best text links over the internet are usually given for free. These text links are not exchanged over out-of-the-blue inquiries or paid for because it is simply […]

The Highly Effective One-Way Links

Because of our inherent want to rank high in the search engine ranking pages, we tend to jump in every opportunity we get to exchange links. After all, any link contributes to PageRank juice, right? While that’s true, not all links look good in Google’s eyes (figuratively speaking, of course). Links in blogrolls or links […]

Determining Trade-Worthy Sites

Last post we discussed when trading text links with smaller sites is good and bad. We talked about how some sites are deserving of getting a free link on your site and others aren’t. But how exactly do you make these determinations on which site should have to pay and which ones shouldn’t? While the […]

When Should You Say No?

As you may have noticed with some of my early posts, I am a big fan of helping others out. When I first started several of my now-defunct sites, I had a lot of help with free text links given to me by bigger sites. This kindness and generosity was not something I forgot. But […]

Remembering To Return Favors

Now this might seem like a little premature, seeing as how the beginnings of this blog have dealt with starting up sites and blogs, but after some time, if you are lucky enough to have a successful site or blog, you may find yourself bombarded with link trade and purchase requests. If and when this […]

Finding Willing Trading Partners

One of the easiest, and financially smartest, ways to build up text links is to trade them with someone else. People who are staring new websites and blogs for the first time often cannot afford to buy expensive back links from every big site in the market. Luckily, in just about every subject covered on […]