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[kykex]

How can a spider possibly differentiate a "hub-authority" link from a reciprocal link? In the end there are both links to websites talking about the same subjects...

[WebSavvy]

Doug can you please move kykex response to this article to the chat area as where we are supposed to make comments to members articles?

Kykex, I will answer that here, even though it is in the wrong forum. The only posts in member articles are to be made by only the person posting the article. Doug made an instruction post at the very top of this forum.

Reciprocal links are bland, generic, non-targeted links. An example would be a recipe site linking to a construction site and the construction site linking back to the recipe site.

An example of a hub is a webmaster site that has links (hundreds of them) to other sites about webmaster related topics. If ANY of the webmaster sites that the original site links to, link back, this is what establishes the "authority factor."

Deltev has written many articles about hub-factor and authority factor, as have many other authors. There is a great deal of information on it to be found simply by doing a search in Google.

Hope this helps.

[Farhan]

Originally posted by savvy1
An example of a hub is a webmaster site that has links (hundreds of them) to other sites about webmaster related topics. If ANY of the webmaster sites that the original site links to, link back, this is what establishes the "authority factor."


What if the webmaster of the HUB, asks ALL the sites which he links to link back to the site for linkpop? Will this be considered artificial mode of improving search engine ranking? I read somewhere that 100 % reciprocal linking is caught up by SE filters.

[WebSavvy]

Yes, it probably would be considered just that. It's better to use a 60-40 ratio. Have links back to the HUB site by 60% of the sites that the HUB lists and the other 40% would be one way links from the HUB to major sources of information such as an electronic library, specialty search engine, news archive, etc.

Sites that are very high caliber such as electronic libraries, news archives, and specialty search engines, in all likelihood would not be in the market for a reciprocal link in any event. So these types of sites would contribute greatly to the HUB factor but not as greatly to the authority factor.