Matt Cutts on Reciprocal Linking

Brett:
People are all about links but then there's a concern about linking to bad neighborhoods. How do you identify bad neighborhoods? Should you nofollow them or stay away totally?

Matt:
Use your gut. Trading links is natural and it's natural to have reciprocal links. At some level, natural reciprocal links happen, but if you do it way too often, it looks artificial. My advice is to go with your gut and if you're worried, you can use nofollow.

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Links from Logos

March 24th, 2008 by admin

I am just wondering whether links from a logo will benefit my site in the same was as a text link would? Do they count at all? If so, is the Alt Tag used as opposed to anchor text? A site has just offered to place my logo on their site which links through to my site, just need to know whether to ask for a text link instead…

If you are getting the next best thing which is an image link, than it is ok. Just be sure they include a proper alt attribute for your Logo image. Adding the alt attribute with the image link provides an added benefit.

I’d also look at what is surrounding your image link. There are “outside influences” that come into play when we’re talking about image links and their placement.

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