They Remove Your Link

Business.

How link exchange partners cheat you - it is not just you, these things happen to everyone. You need to relax, it is a great method to get ideas, inspirations and solutions.

Worrying only leads to more problems. - the other thing is that making link exchanges is not an easy task, but time consuming if you do not invest some money in some software. What that means is you should not complain or waste a lot of time discussing why this or why that. The other important thing is to take things more easy. Time is precious. Once you know this you should feel a bit better. These are common things that every webmasters faces.

The nofollow tag. - you need to make sure that spiders can reach the page your link is on. Some webmasters use the nofollow tag either on your link, or on their links page. Sometimes webmasters put the nofollow tag on the link pointing to their linkspage, which is located on the homepage. The robots file. There are plugins that highlight links that are using nofollow tags or find out some other tools if you do not wish to check this manually. Robots files are used sometimes instead of the nofollow tags to block spiders from indexing the linkspage.

Make sure spiders are allowed to visit the linkspage. - you need to check this file, which is called robots. txt and located in the root of the website. The meta tag. In both tags, you need to make sure they are not blocking the spiders in some way or another. You need to check the meta tags of the homepage and also the meta tags of the page your link is on. The attributes that you need to look for are all, follow, index.

They remove your link. - that means spiders should follow all links and index them all. If your link partner removes your link from their website, rest assured not all of your partners will notify you. There are scripts and software to do this easily. As long as they are not using some script that does it automatically you will have to check this out for yourself. So keep record somewhere always of the location your partner placed your link so you check every one or two months. Sometimes webmasters do it because they cannot find a link back and most common reason is because you moved their link.

This happens for several reasons. - so like my first suggestion never waste time complaining and moaning about this. Give them an option to re submit their link. Simple email them and let them know you are going to remove their link because you cannot find yours. For example, tell them you can reply to this email if you are still interested in a link exchange. They are not linking to the linkspage from anywhere.

Then if after a couple of days they do not reply, send them another email and then after another couple of days remove their link if they do not reply. - that is another problem. The linkspage will have no menus, just a blank page with links. Usually if they are not linking to their linkspage from their homepage you can easily tell. Most webmasters who do this simple do not know they have to link to their linkspage from their homepage. So check if they are linking to it from the homepage only if the linkspage has absolutely nothing but links.

They are new to seo. - to make sure then google the page and see if it is in the index, if it is then obviously it is linked from somewhere. But always treat your link partners they way you want them to treat you. Keep those in mind when you are doing link exchanges, find some plugins or software to help you do things faster. Remember they are helping you improve search engine rankings.