Why You Should Reciprocal Link
By Joanne Tinsley

You should reciprocal link because it will get you a higher ranking in search engines and get Free traffic to your site. The information below, will explain how to optimize with reciprocal links and how to get the best results.


1. Free web site promotion

Reciprocal links exchanges mean free web site promotion. You don't have to pay for these exchanges and you will get visitors for free.
If you want to get a lot of free traffic you have to exchange reciprocal links with high quality sites . Just exchanging reciprocal links with anyone on the web won't help.

First of all you have to design your site as well as possible and have an original content. Then start promoting your site. When you think it's popular enough, you will be able to exchange reciprocal links with high quality sites, which will deliver a lot of free traffic to you.
How do you choose these sites? Well, these sites must have a similar content with yours and must be well promoted (especially on the major search engines). We suggest you pay a visit to our Links Page http://home-based-web-business-opportunity.com/links/index.html
Exchange reciprocal links with these sites and promote your site for free. Do a search in a major search engine, use your keywords in the search. See what sites come up and link to them, if they have similar content.


2. Free search engines submission


Your site will get listed in the major search engines through reciprocal links. When you have linked to high quality sites, Crawlers will evaluate your site and index it. This process will take about one - four months and then your site will appear on the search engines. This is a true fact .


The table below represents the time it takes to get indexed in the different search engines.

Search Engine Time to get indexed
Yahoo 1 month
Google 1 month
AltaVista 2 months
Excite 3 months
Alltheweb 3-4 months

This time can be much shorter if you have many reciprocal links pointing to you!


3. Link popularity

Exchanging reciprocal links will help your site get higher search engines rankings.
How?
Search engines use the site popularity to rank sites. Higher site popularity, higher rankings! This system is used by all the major search engines.
With good search engines ranking, your site will get more and more free traffic!
But how do you check your link popularity?
Go to any search engine (i.e. Google, Yahoo) your site is listed with. Type your complete site address (links:mysite.com) in the search bar. The sites that appear in the results are the ones that link to you. A greater number of sites appearing in the results, a greater site popularity!

Warning! The site popularity can be different from one search engine to another.


4.Text Links Vs Banner Links

If you want to have a good site popularity and higher rankings you must exchange reciprocal text links. If you want to get the attention on your link, choose reciprocal graphics links. But be careful! On the web there aren't too many webmasters willing to exchange reciprocal graphics links with you.

Why? Graphics take too long time to load..
It is much better to exchange text links. Search engines need text copy to know what your web site's theme is and how your site should be indexed in their directory.

Now you can see how important reciprocal links are! Reciprocal links are the best method to promote your site for free. Exchange reciprocal links and promote your site!