Google and 3-way Links

[TeamPlayer]

I often see stuff like this being emailed to me. Now I`ve heard that Google strongly disapprove of 3 way links. I`ve always steered clear of such arrangements. How is it then that these sites, which seem to me nothing more than single link pages with no other purpose in life, manage to get a Google PR?

Are they to be avoided at all costs?

Message: Dear Webmaster,
>
> I found your website xxxxxxxxxxxx.com by
> google search engine and it has a good link popularity. Sir, I handle online
> marketing for my clients site. To increase the link popularity of my
> client's site , I am now looking for traingular Link swapping with some good
> quality sites. You are already aware that Triangular Link swapping is much
> more popular and beneficial than Reciprocal Link exchange .This way both the
> sites gets the benefit of one way Linking. I would request you to place my
> client's link at your site with the following details.

[OldWelshGuy]

Google disapprove of ANY link system that is designed to boost page rank and nothing else. This is why I am forever harping on about ensuring your links are good quality links between on topic pages.

People shout me down and say that this is not the case and that they work blah blah blah. What I am talking about is FUTUREPROOFING your seo. Whilst currently they might not devalue /penalise you, in the future they might WELL do this! Where then for the sites that carry out this practice?

[gkd_uk]

So a competitor could add a site link to as many non quality sites as possible and Google would penalise the website owner when he/she was not aware that links were being added to non quality sites. Is this correct?

Thanks

[OldWelshGuy]

Kinda yep, that is called Google Bowling, where you bowl over a website. You can only do this with weak sites though.

3 Way linking, imagine

site B is linked to by Site A

Site B Links to Site C

Site C links to site A

Site A NEVER links to site C

ALL these sites could get penalised because they are involved in a 3 way linking scheme designed to manipulate the page rank/page ranking/SERP call it what you like.

[Bagi Zoltán]

OWG, this is not the best new, since according to this all my websites should be penalized:-)

[OldDarkstarAccount]

OWG I do not want to offend you ( I do not have the right as I am to young as age and as experience in this domain ) but you seem to be agains any ways of creating links for your site.

How do you manage to get links for yours and your customer sites ? Because I know the content is important but who links for your site just because you have good content today ?

[RiverWire]

OWG's right however its always harder for the big G to prove 3 way links.

Lets say i link to your directory from my spurs site, then your directory linked to my directory, all coming from different C class ip's , and different Who is info ,how is google going to prove that this is a 3 way link ? they cant ! as long as you dont do it over and over again i cant see how they could do anything. Apart from maybe bringing in another factor that means links have nothing todo with inter linking and is purly todo with content. Of course this would mean that google would have to manually review every single site and would be be effective, so thats not going to happen

[TeamPlayer]

I`ve read that as far as links from spammy sites are concerned Google won`t penalise a site which is being linked to from such a site, otherwise a competitor could use it to his advantage. In other words he could create crap sites with the sole intention of lowering the PRs of their competitors.

[mrcrowley]

Originally Posted by TeamPlayer

I`ve read that as far as links from spammy sites are concerned Google won`t penalise a site which is being linked to from such a site, otherwise a competitor could use it to his advantage. In other words he could create crap sites with the sole intention of lowering the PRs of their competitors.

Thats a very good point. For that reason i don't think google can penalize 3-way links. How can google bot tell the intention behind the way someone has linked. I think a lot of good sites would get penalized if that was the case.

[OldDarkstarAccount]

I just think that some webmasters go for the saying : ' every thing that is nice is either illegal , imoral or makes you fat' ( i hope I got it right ) . Sometimes you just have to use certain methods in order to build your way up...