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I have seen many that suck, so I completely ignore doing a link exchange with them. First of all a linkspage is a directory with categories and subcategories where you put your link exchange partners.

I placed here four simple rules. This will not only make your website more user friendly, but you attract more link exchange partners. If you are not getting enough link exchange requests, or you get many rejected link exchanges, or few emails asking for link exchange, these rules may solve all that.

Rule 1: Link to your linkspage from the homepage - (And no need to link to it from all your site pages, just the homepage). Make it a text link called
Link Partners
Resources
Links
Our Partners

Or something like that.

Rule 2: Do not put nofollow tag on the link that links to the linkspage. Means on that link you put on the homepage.

Why?

Because Google spider will totally ignore your linkspage, so your link partners will gain nothing. It is like cheating them.
Do not neither block in any way the linkspage or the links, neither placing nofollow tags on the links themselves. Spiders and all of them should be able to visit your linkspage and crawl every page and every link.

So do not use meta tags or robots or other “brave” technique to block spiders.

Rule 3: Do not create one page and put all your links on it. Create categories and subcategories.

Do not put more than 100 links per page. Google suggest not more than 100 links per page. So up to 100 is ok. I put only 35 per page, it looks neater and I attract more link exchange partners, they love my directory, they know their site will not be buried somewhere, but visible in my neatly organized link directory.

Rule 4: Put a search box. If they do not find their link instantly some link exchange partners will go mad.

Not a crappy search box, but one that actually returns results when you type in the domain name or the title of the site. Very important, because if they do not find their site, some will do not think twice and remove your link from their linkspage.

I am not saying anything new here, just important things. I seen countless sites selling awesome stuff, but then it takes me a ton of time to find where their linkspage is.

Why is this important?

If you do not link to your linkspage from your homepage the page will not get indexed. So why exchange links with your site if spiders will never see my link.

So these are all simple things you learn one and apply anytime you have a new website which requires the linkspages.

All in all you will attract more link exchange partners, spiders will also find your linskpage more user friendly and so the pages will get indexed faster. It is very important that if you are doing link exchanges you treat your link partners the best possible way.

The first thing to treat them good is to place their website in a good page, a page that can be indexed easily. Do not try to cheat link partners if you do not want them to cheat you.