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9 Hot Tips for Linking with other Sites by: Gareth Davies If you have a website the chances are you receive e-mails from Webmasters asking you to make a link exchange with them. But how do you know whether you should link to their website or not? Well here are 9 rules of thumb, to help guide you through the linking maze. 1. Is their site relevant to yours? This is key, and more and more important these days. If the answer is YES then it's worth thinking about. If it's off topic then you may want to think twice before swapping links. A link from a relevant website to your site is the preferred choice as it can help reinforce your website theme and potentially send some useful traffic your way. 2. How many links is too many on a links page? When your link is being placed on another website, you ideally want that page to contain as few outbound links as possible. 15 or less outbound links is good, 150 outbound links is not so good. If there are a high number of links on a page [such as 150] then the value of each link out is weakened. Whilst we can only make assumptions about '˜link weight' some Webmasters will use a cut off point of '50
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