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Link Exchange
Link exchange has been a long time practice by website owners since the beginning of the web. In the last few years (after year 2000), this practice has gained more popularity as search engines such as Google started favoring sites that had more links in the rankings. This system was very accurate at gauging the importance of a website when it first started, leading to the popularity of Google.
You may be familiar with automatic link exchange services, however, there are some shady webmasters out there who do not reciprocate after they have agreed to exchange. Manual link exchange does take more time, but it's worth 10 fold more than an automatic link exchange service can offer. Dead links on your site or exchanging links with webmasters who are not reciprocating properly is of no value to you.
True Reciprocal Link Exchange is of great value and these Link Partners are GOLDEN! If you are going to exchange links... Make it count! Do not, we repeat, DO NOT link to websites that offer no advantage to your website audience. This is no good for your website visitors and no good for the search engines.