Three Way Links and Their Advantages
t is no secret in the online world that in order to get a high profile for your site and for lots of new people to see it, it has to have lots of links pointing at it from other sites that are seen as valuable by search engines.
Links can be gathered using many different methods and some are worth more than others. One of the least effective ways of building links is reciprocal linking which is where two sites simply exchange links with one another. This method was effective once upon a time but its day has been and gone now.
The reason that these links aren’t worth a great deal anymore is because what search engines like Google like to see is links building naturally as more and more people find your site, but if sites are both linking to each other, then the search engine can see that an arrangement has taken place to try to gain links faster, and therefore the links aren’t natural.
They are however worth something, just not a great deal. The reason they’re still worth something is because sometimes it would be natural for websites to simply link directly to and from each other, like in the case of a shop and their supplier or other situations where the pages have similar themes. Thats really the only time that reciprocal links are worth anything, when the pages are based on similar themes.
So clearly what the search engines are now looking for is natural links that have been placed without the recipient directly linking back, so three way links came to one of the more preferred methods. However in order to make these links work, either the site owner that you’re exchanging links with or you have to own at least two sites.
The 3 way link model is essentially this: site a places a link to site b, site b then places a link to site c, and if you want to, site c can then link back to site a. This method creates unprompted one way links in the eyes of the search engines that appear completely natural, and therefore will be more valuable.
For example, say you owned site A and site C and you wanted to get a link for site C, you would simply use site A as somewhere to offer a link from and in exchange, the other person would link to site C, meaning that their site becomes site B in the model. This strategy will do you far more favours than reciprocal linking, but when used alone you will probably make fairly slow progress, however when you use it alongside some other methods (which I will go into in my next article) it is highly effective.
