Jim on “Link Pages”

Posted: October 15, 2005

Jim’s response to Rand, which is a response to a Highranks post.

I’m not completely positive link pages are dead – however, I do believe that no one should get all their links in the same manner.

The most common types of links are:
1. Recips
2. Directory Submissions
3. One way requests
4. Press Releases
5. Article Submissions & Distribution
6. Buying Links
7. People naturally linking to great articles (what Google would call ‘natural links’).
8. Blog Comments
9. Trackbacks
10. Board/Blog/Guest book Signatures
11. (Sure I’ve missed some, the above is my ‘most common’ list).

Of course, there are better and worse ways to implement each of the above.

When I look at a site’s backlinks, patterns often emerge. It’s pretty easy to tell what strategies someone has implemented to get their backlinks. If there’s an easily noticeable pattern for me (who is not an SEO), think about what Google and Yahoo have mapped.

Anyway, the point was are recips dead? I’d say No.
Are recips as the sole means to ranking dead? I’d say Yes.
Are there ways of working good recips into a site? Read Jim’s Post.