Link exchange for plumbing website owners??

[wrecked_24_7]

Hello, I have recently set up my own plumbing website in the Lincoln area, I have been tinkering with it to slowly get further up the google search pages. I now know your page rank depends alot on how many other websites link to your page and what rank them websites are. I am fully aware non of our websites will be very high ranked, but we can help each other if we have links for each other on our webpages, on our links pages ( or similar if you dont have one) I know it isnt very valid me having a link for a glaswegian plumber as im based in Lincoln, but I would simply put on my links page.

If you ever need a plumber in glasgow - (then the link) or similar.

Im sure this would help everyone involved as Im sure your aware more and more people seem to be hitting the interent for tradesmen, especially in the bigger citites. If anyone would be interested in swapping some links please get in touch. Thanks. Chris

 

[migoplumber]

good idea wrecked, let dave admin know!

shaun

 

[Dave]

You lads can swap links on your websites no probs....The members on the tilers forum do it as well.....

So go for it...maybe even put a plumbersforum link as well....

 

[HTB]

If I only knew how!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wrecked_24_7]

If I only knew how!!!!!!!!!!!

what aspect dont u know how mate? how to do a link on your website??? did u design ur own???

what aspect dont u know how mate? how to do a link on your website??? did u design ur own???

if anyone has a website leave their web address, then people can exchange with theirs, mine is abcplumbinglincoln.co.uk plz people dont be shy

 

[Terry888]

Hi, I'm in the process now of trying to exchange links with other plumbing sites, contact me at [email protected] if your interested in exchanging links...Thanks

 

[GQuigley67]

is this like search engine optimisation ? I thought the more keywords you had in your webpage and page titles etc the more you'd go up the pecking order I'm in the process of building mine with some info

 

[Terry888]

I have been looking into it, the keywords do help but the more links you have the better, especially if your linking to someone who is quite high up the search ladder..

 

[GQuigley67]

well what about links to manufacturers websites then ? surely alot of people google the likes of worcester baxi etc

 

[dontknowitall]

In my humble opinion ... of course ...

I don't want to smack this idea but the search engines are becoming more and more "intelligent" these days. There was a time when if you put "plumbing" about 2,500 times on your site you could more or less guarantee to be number one. Then the search engines started blacklisting sites like this.

Then the designers started hiding words (white text on white background or black/black, etc). The search engines discovered this. So then the designers went for colours. Search engines found this.

Then there were the meta tags. Nowdays most search engines ignore these too!

About 5 years ago links came into vogue. So web designers put heaps of pages on to one website and linked all sorts of things from one page to another. Search engines marked these down in the pecking order.

Then web designers used several websites linked to each other. Search engines found they were all belonging to the same registered person/company.

So then new 'false' companies were set up ...

And links ...

The list goes on.

I think the only thing that really works is the length of time a website is registered*. Mine is coming up for renewal and it wouldn't surprise me if I get a few more hits from it because of this. (But for my locality mine is in the number one slot. Frustrating for those SEO people cold calling and asking how high up I'd like to be in Google!)


* Obviously the site has to be relevant and I'm not denying links work (I'm sure they do) but as search engines become more intelligent they'll be looking at these links and realising that many aren't valuable for users looking for information the internet.

In my humble opinion ... of course ... !!!


Please don't read this and think it's not worth doing links. At the moment there is definitely mileage in it but I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before the search engines start marking multi linked websites downwards.