Link exchange

[Sunchaser]

Having received today an interesting proposal (that i already accepted  ) for a my toplist, I am kind of motivated to increase the PR / traffic. My toplist do not have much traffic, probably because i don't request the voting link ( i may request it from now )

I have some questions on link exchange (my toplist is PR 2)

- Is this a common way to increase a site PR? I have to find a site that accepts exchanges from sites with PR 2?
- It's important that i have a link from the other site, it's not important they actually send traffic?

Thanks.

[Chris]

top-pbbg.com - Rankings - All Sites
Browser-based game ranking site. Hosts the best rpg, sports, fantasy, pet and strategy games showing descriptions, stats, reviews and star ratings.
www.top-pbbg.com/

How many people would search for "top-pbbg.com - Rankings - All Sites" keyword? You have no traffic because you targeted useless keywords. I strongly suggest to heavily research about SEO.

because i don't request the voting link

Only most lame sites force link back. Properly built and valuable toplists make people fight over top positions.

[Nox]

---> http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66356

You can say SEs kinda wants to have their results sorted according to how much humans value them
The more natural the links are, the more weight is put on them

From what I read Google tries to lower the significance of the link exchanges, since it's again artificial method
(i doubt it will be ignored completely in a long time since it's probably hard to distinguish it perfectly)

I read the linked page just now and it seems even harsher then I wrote here...

For PR trickery will probably more useful some PR articles

Or just try to get more people know your site - if they start to link to you, those links will be most valuable (and natural)

[Sunchaser]

@chris thanks, got any useful links about SEO? If i google tons of link come out but i don't think they are very good; and what you mean as compete between them?  I mean topsites normally got votes by means of a vote link, in others (like mine) you can also vote the game directly on site...



 

[Chris]

I mean, if there is a good toplist that bring plenty of players I, as a game owner who has the game registered at the toplist, will do a lot to make sure to get the most votes (which means going not only as far as adding the votelink on some third visibility page, but by actively finding incentives for my players to vote each day).

As for SEO, I don't know any single good source of info (actually, I know more bad ones ). I think learning it must take time...

A note about your toplist: the internal structure (positioning of elements, number of listings with banners enabled, etc) is almost identical to my ideal standard of a good toplist. So I wouldn't change that (assuming I know what I'm talking about, which not necessarily might be true since I never owned a toplist ). On the other hand I find your SEO absolutely terrible. A yellow flag also for lack of links to other toplists. A red flag for PR2 (all my new games have PR3, and it required almost no effort from my side). Just from a quick look.

[Sunchaser]

thank you chris, for the comments, i will (try) to improve my seo knowledge

[CygnusX]

If you use Firefox, there are several addons that allow you to improve your SEO score. You can run the tool against your page and it will grade your content.  It does things like calculating your keyword density, grades your use of H1 and H2 tags, looks at how your titeling your pages, meta tags, number of keywords, description, etc.  However, the 'best' way to improve your rank is to have a page that is over 2 years old and back-links with substantial link juice.  Posting a link to your site from link farms or low page-rank sites typically doesn't help.  I believe you can type in link:www.mysitename.com into google and it will display all sites its giving you credit from having a link from.  The more the better.