Why I don’t do Link Exchange?
Posted in Blog Tips | By AhTim @ February 23rd, 2008
I have receive more and more link exchange request. Sometime this is quite annoying but prove that my blog is doing well. 
If not, people would not want to exchange link with me. Maybe some of you curious why I don’t do link exchange? Well, in simple word I would say this practice is wrong!
Why I don’t do Link Exchange?
The main reason is I care benefits of my readers. I want all information I provide to my readers are clean, useful and pure. Secondly, of course is due to Page Rank.
Page rank is an organic measurement of usefulness of a website based on it’s incoming links. This measurement bring us useful and important information first, when we do Google search. This means link exchange will spoilt the organic usefulness of internet. It might dirty the information in this blogsphere!
Hence, the practice of link should be like this: if I discover website that I believe it would benefit my visitors, I link to that site. And, if you discover my blog and believe I would benefit your visitors, then you should link to me. If we both think our link is useful for our readers, then we should both link. No link exchange is needed.
What I say?
So next time if people ask me for link exchange, I will answer like this: Link to my site if you think your readers would find it useful or interesting, and do it without hoping that you or your site will benefit from the link.
What you say? Do you do link exchange?
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February 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 PM
Different people has a different opinion about link exchange, I’m doing link exchange if there had this criteria:-
1.Update regularly.
2.Fresh content and worth to read.
3.Entire article benefit to my readers.
of course yet I want win to win situation, could be better if my partner site giving their full attention to their site and good in maintenance.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:16 AM
I do agree with you, and my reasons are similar to yours as to why I don’t have a blogroll on my blog – wouldn’t it be better for me to link to sites I like with anchor keyword text? I think so.
I used to do some link exchanges for an old site of mine that I set up about 4 years ago, and I still get link exchange requests – highly annoying!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:34 AM
@Bent: Most important is benefit your readers. How many links exchange have you done?
@Nick: It’s quite annoying. But give them a chance to understand before you ignore them.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:24 PM
I have sent a request to Tim about link exchange and he ask me to come to this post. Now I have understood. Thanks!! May be one day my blog is worth to put it into the list.