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RDude
09-06-2009, 09:40 AM
I've been cleaning house a little on some of my blogs and looking at the traffic I'm sending out as opposed to what's coming in. As some of the link trades were done a few years ago, there are a fair amount of abandoned blogs linking to me, but not sending any significant traffic. I don't send out a whole lot to them either, but I am sending more.
So...in this situation do you remove their link even though the blog is still linking to you, or do you keep the link up for PR and SEO purposes? There is no way to contact most of these webmasters as they've either moved on to other things or just don't have an email address available. Most of the trades were done with link trade forms. If I tried to track them all down it would take forever.
Thanks:cool:
Gaystoryman
09-06-2009, 10:00 AM
While removing your link to them would keep the incoming link, if no one is checking, I'd still keep it, in case they do as you do, and suddenly reactivate a blog. Sometimes people leave them unattended, for whatever reason, then come back and find all the links to them gone, so they remove yours.
Unless its a questionable site, I'd still keep the link intact.
Course if you have a link to replace it, then go for it, as nothing would change if they suddenly woke up and removed yours.
my 2 cents
dirkpeddler
09-06-2009, 04:16 PM
I've been cleaning house a little on some of my blogs and looking at the traffic I'm sending out as opposed to what's coming in. As some of the link trades were done a few years ago, there are a fair amount of abandoned blogs linking to me, but not sending any significant traffic. I don't send out a whole lot to them either, but I am sending more.
So...in this situation do you remove their link even though the blog is still linking to you, or do you keep the link up for PR and SEO purposes? There is no way to contact most of these webmasters as they've either moved on to other things or just don't have an email address available. Most of the trades were done with link trade forms. If I tried to track them all down it would take forever.
Thanks:cool:
As long as the other blog is still linking to you, you should keep the link to them too. At some point you two made a trade deal, unless you request the other webmaster to remove your link on his blog and then remove his link, it would not be fair.
If, while checking links you had found that webmaster had removed your link from their blog, I bet it would have pissed you off. So if you want to remove their link from your blog, inform the webmaster so they can reciprocate (pun intended).
RDude
09-06-2009, 04:47 PM
As long as the other blog is still linking to you, you should keep the link to them too. At some point you two made a trade deal, unless you request the other webmaster to remove your link on his blog and then remove his link, it would not be fair.
If, while checking links you had found that webmaster had removed your link from their blog, I bet it would have pissed you off. So if you want to remove their link from your blog, inform the webmaster so they can reciprocate (pun intended).
Ok sure, I understand and respect that. No, I wouldn't like it if someone did that to me. However, if I'm sending them traffic and they haven't sent me any in the past 3 months, why should I keep the trade going? My concern is sending out leaks, while I get nothing in return. How is that the least bit respectful to me?
dirkpeddler
09-07-2009, 06:59 AM
Ok sure, I understand and respect that. No, I wouldn't like it if someone did that to me. However, if I'm sending them traffic and they haven't sent me any in the past 3 months, why should I keep the trade going? My concern is sending out leaks, while I get nothing in return. How is that the least bit respectful to me?
I understand, but still, you made a trade with them, the correct way to handle it would be to inform the other webmaster you are removing their site form your blogroll or whatever you use, so they can do the same, if they care. If you just remove it without letting the other know and would be doing something you yourself would not appreciate. I'm not saying you shouldn't remove but if you do follow up with the webmaster just so you cannot be accused of playing 'dirty'.
Unless the site is gone, or your link is gone, I'd leave it alone.
dirkpeddler
09-13-2009, 09:35 AM
Unless the site is gone, or your link is gone, I'd leave it alone.
Or use link weights to move links that do not or hardly return traffic to the bottom of the list, WAY down, that way there are still there but probably so low no one ever sees them 666
RDude
09-13-2009, 10:13 AM
Or use link weights to move links that do not or hardly return traffic to the bottom of the list, WAY down, that way there are still there but probably so low no one ever sees them 666
That's what I've been doing. I looked at my blog stats for the last year and have created a Top List from it. Those not sending traffic are lost in a sea of links, but are still there. I have contacted a few webmasters and they have updated their blogs. Which is nice to see.
I'm not one to jump the gun in this kind of situation. It's why I asked what others would do. Who needs traffic leaks from their blogs though?
Thanks for the feedback folks.:cool: