Link Exchange Blog

The latest enhancement to the site which I have just finished implementing is the email webmaster button.  This took me about a week and a half to finish because I had to move and I lost my internet connection for a few days.  The button appears magically when you select all your backlinks and press the “Check Backlinks” button.  After the site goes out into the vast internet and verifies all your existing backlinks, if any of them are broken, the button will appear in the link. You can click this to send a quick email to the webmaster informing them of the broken link and the email message will request that they fix the problem.

The idea is to give members a chance to fix things before their link is deleted from the member’s link directory.  I have set this up to appear every 5 days. After receiving the first email from the site, a message is displayed of the date the webmaster was last emailed and asked to fix the link. The button will reappear again after the 5 day period and then you can either email them once again, (same message) or simply delete or hide the link from your directory  Pretty nifty huh?

The idea is to provide as much in the way of help as we can to members in order to make life easier with their linking campaigns.

Additionally, we now have the excluded domains database… Folks who simply register and don’t ever participate in the site by exchanging links with other members will have their domains placed in here and they will not be able to use the site.  My goal with this is to keep the member directory pruned from webmasters who don’t respond to link requests, and don’t make any link requests either.  It is now required that all members make at least 10 requests per month.  It preferred that members upgrade their site and install the advanced membership software onto their site.  The upgrade is FREE, and I hope everyone will use it.  I have just deleted about 300 sites and we are getting a steady flow of traffic from Google and other sources.  We are now on the 1st page of Google for the phrase link exchange service.  We will get to the coveted #1 spot very soon! Stay tuned!  :>

After spending weeks on the FTP issue, which is now resolved and working great, I have added a nifty color picker to the advanced membership options. Now you’ll be able to pick your text and link colors for your link directory easily and it will automatically place the hexidecimal number into the field for you.

Also, right around the corner is a little button in the Manage Links area which will appear after you run the backlink checker and any of your links are broken. If our site doesn’t find the link on someones website where it’s supposed to be linking to your site, you’ll be able to click this button and it will shoot them an email about this. Then you can sit back and give them a few days to fix this. If they don’t, you can either email them again, (every 5 days) or you can just delete their link altogether from your link directory.

Also in the works is the merge utility which will allow you to take a page of links and merge them into your advanced links. Then you’ll be able to use the backlink checker against all those as well! This should be done in another month.

After several weeks of programming, LE will now permit you to use the php script on a windows or unix hosting platform whereas previously it would only work on unix.  Also, certain custom unix servers had some problems with the generation of the html files which make up your link directory at your website.  This issue has been solved with the ftp module which will create all your files at the Link-Exchangers.com website and then immediately FTP your files to a specific directory on your site. You simply create an ftp account for us with access to one of your subdirectories so the program can interact with your site.

Right now, the upgrade is FREE! That’s right, I’m giving it all away until the site is really cooking…The site is 2 years old, and it has undergone many revisions and new additions. As a result, there are many websites which aren’t doing much and  they are in the process of being removed.  We want webmasters who are highly responsive to link requests in the site. To claim your FREE upgrade, please fill out a support ticket at the support site and be sure to include all of the information about your site your registered.  You need to first get the advanced membership setup instructions which are available through the faq page.

Traffic comes from many places to your website. Did you know that search engines deliver over 70% of all web traffic? Google takes the lions share at around 50% and then comes Yahoo and MSN.   To rank high at the engines, and there are hundreds of them, it’s important to have a strong link campaign as well as a strong SEO campaign.

There are many theories on how to optimize ones pages for the engines, though most will agree that having your keyword phrases in the anchor texts to your site is the most beneficial way.  The anchor texts should  for the most part include your keyword phrase.  You can also mix in some of your minor keyword phrases as well.  To make a siginificant impact on your rankings at the engines, you need to get lots of these.  Normally this will take some time to build up, however, it’s more important than ever to have a mechanism at your site to faciliate the process of getting links.