There are Two Sides to Every Internet Home Business, the Heart Side and the Operational Side
If you are lucky, you will be able to handle both sides of your Internet Home Business in house, very lucky indeed. The more I delve into getting set up on the Internet, the more I realize I do not have a clue what the hell I am doing!! this may be a strange thing to say, since parts of this site, www.learn2earn2.com, are set up to help people set up their own Internet businesses, but none the less, I am saying that here. I just received a comment from someone who wanted to set up a link between my site and his, similar sites, so it made sense. Steve then started to explain ways to set up a 3 way link between his two sites and mine, etc etc, by the time he was finished, I had no ideas what he was talking about.
This was just another example of the complexities of operating on the Internet, maybe what he was talking about is common place on the Internet, may be it was a complex new way of doing simple link building. Here it is, take a look:
“As for your questions about the links, it depends. Google expects a certain amount of reciprocal links as well as one way links. I prefer to do 3-way link exchanges with people when I can because they have more example: mysite1 links to your site which links to mysite2. One can even go so far as mysite1 links to yoursite1 which links to mysite2 which links to yoursite2, etc. that makes all the links 1 way, so they carry more weight.”
This may be common place, everyone may do it, you may say that you do it, but I can not help but notice that what this process does, is try to manipulate the results, trick the search engines in thinking one thing when in fact that is not the case. I am talking to Steve about linking to his site, as well as other sites that I own, I know that links are important and we all want them, but at what cost and in what fashion?
When ever you ask 10 Internet experts the same question, you usually get 5 people saying its black and the other 5 saying it’s white, both sides are always convinced that they are 100 % correct. In this case, my issue and concern is this, the links that I would be setting up in this case would not be organic in the sense that these are separate independent sites, they are sites owned by the same people and are being linked up not for value, but to trick the search engines into thinking they are more relevant because of the way they are set up, not because of any true value.
There are two issues here, one is the value of the links to real people out there, and then the value, or the perceived value to the search engines, two very different things. Steve has significantly more Internet experience working with new Internet Home Business owners and his suggestion to me, which by the way was a very kind explanation to my question to him, could be the norm and everybody does it and everybody is happy with that. Unfortunately, as I have pointed out here many times before, what the search engines want and what we want, are usually two very different things.
My advice, and focus is to build our web sites the organic way, taking proven steps to build a site, and then taking the time and effort to build our sites that way. Links back to our sites, from sites with similar content are looked upon as a positive with the search engines, I get un easy when I start to play around with that concept and try to out fox the SE.
I fully admit that in this area, I am really way over my head, any input from people with more experience in this area is very much appreciated. Have a great day, more on this I am sure will follow in the next few days.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Free Internet Business
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