KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR LINK EXCHANGES

All of us want to increase traffic to our web sites. It helps
our search engine rankings, and provides us with potential new
customers. One of the best, and certainly least expensive, ways
to do that is by exchanging links with sites similar to our own.
However, you don’t have to accumulate very many links before it
becomes difficult to keep track of them all. Many of them have
similar sounding (or identical!) names, descriptions and even
URL’s. Let me suggest a simple way to keep track of them so you
don’t embarrass yourself and annoy others by requesting to
exchange links with someone more than once. Create a simple
spread sheet with four columns and no more that 51 rows; one row
for titling your columns, and 50 for listing links. Search
engines do not like link pages with more than 50 links, so if you
make your spread sheet only capable of holding 50 items, you
won’t exceed that arbitrary level. Each link page on your site
will be a separate sheet in your spread sheet file. You can
rename the tabs along the bottom to match the page titles on your
web site if that helps you keep track. Your four columns will
be "Title," "Description," "Page/Location," and "URL." Take the
first link page on your site and just type in the info. Copy and
paste may or may not work as some software insists on copying the
hyperlink info as well and makes necessary stuff like wrapping
text difficult or impossible. The page/location column is used to
code which link page you have the placed the reciprocal link
onto, and where up and down the page. For instance, the first
link on your page one is coded 1.01. The 12th link on page 2 is
coded 2.12. The 18th link on page 3 is coded 3.18, and so on.
Once you have done that, have your software alphabetize the page.
The links will then be arranged in alphabetical order so you can
easily find whatever you are looking for. Additions to
not-yet-completed pages can just be added to the bottom, and then
re-alphabetized. Try it!