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Viewfinder · 09-13-2008, 03:15 AM

I personally don't see the utility of blog directories, to be honest. The traffic is minimal and declines steadily, plus your link is usually buried in a sea of links, or worse it falls off to some subpage that has no PR or link pop whatsoever. It's better than nothing, but there are better options. And, yes, the number of outbound links can indeed hurt you when trying to setup a trade. If a webmaster sees that your blog is already linking to a gazillion sites, he knows that his link will get that much less juice from the page. Better to save your link space for high value relevant trades, not the low value reciprocal trades that directories offer. Also, having too many outbound links will hurt your rankings, as search engines will smell a link farm and promptly cut your balls off. Keep total outbound links to between 75 and 100, would be my advice.

Be careful about letting just anybody put their link up on your sites automatically through a script. You're going to get a lot of really crappy and spammy sites that way, which may actually hurt your rankings as well, since Google is known to penalize you if you link to "bad neighborhoods." If you can find a script that allows you to screen the link first, that would be ideal. Generally, try your best to link only to sites that don't have any obvious red flags (like hundreds and hundreds of links and little else, hidden text, redirects or any similarly sneaky shit).

ThunderBall is probably the best place right now to arrange quality relevant trades, though many new people to it complain that their trade requests never get accepted. You should be patient and diligently continue to request reasonable trades, even if you're ignored at the beginning. Sooner or later, you will identify those webmasters who are usually willing to trade with you and, before you know it, you will have a list of quality people you can trade regularly with. Many of these folks have huge site portfolios, so this is quite a resource that is well worth the effort.

09-13-2008, 03:15 AM
Viewfinder Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 404	I personally don't see the utility of blog directories, to be honest. The traffic is minimal and declines steadily, plus your link is usually buried in a sea of links, or worse it falls off to some subpage that has no PR or link pop whatsoever. It's better than nothing, but there are better options. And, yes, the number of outbound links can indeed hurt you when trying to setup a trade. If a webmaster sees that your blog is already linking to a gazillion sites, he knows that his link will get that much less juice from the page. Better to save your link space for high value relevant trades, not the low value reciprocal trades that directories offer. Also, having too many outbound links will hurt your rankings, as search engines will smell a link farm and promptly cut your balls off. Keep total outbound links to between 75 and 100, would be my advice. Be careful about letting just anybody put their link up on your sites automatically through a script. You're going to get a lot of really crappy and spammy sites that way, which may actually hurt your rankings as well, since Google is known to penalize you if you link to "bad neighborhoods." If you can find a script that allows you to screen the link first, that would be ideal. Generally, try your best to link only to sites that don't have any obvious red flags (like hundreds and hundreds of links and little else, hidden text, redirects or any similarly sneaky shit). ThunderBall is probably the best place right now to arrange quality relevant trades, though many new people to it complain that their trade requests never get accepted. You should be patient and diligently continue to request reasonable trades, even if you're ignored at the beginning. Sooner or later, you will identify those webmasters who are usually willing to trade with you and, before you know it, you will have a list of quality people you can trade regularly with. Many of these folks have huge site portfolios, so this is quite a resource that is well worth the effort.