Exchanging links

Why should I exchange or trade links?

You are running a website and you want people to visit it. For that to happen, they need to know about it first. You can put up banners, pay-per-click ads, list your site in directories and also promote it outside the internet. But for sure, the best (and cheapest) type of visitors you can get to your site, are the ones who have found you through a search engine, such as Google or Yahoo. These people are most likely to pay attention to your site, because they have found it as an answser to their question (search), not because you promote it.

So, lets say you have a website, that sells computer security software, which protects computers from viruses, spam, email scams etc.
Your potential customers are people, who go to a search engine and search for "antivirus", "spam protection", "spam filter", "spyware protection" and other keywords.
However, whatever they search for, the search engine offers thousands of websites. Probably, your site will be somewhere among them as well. But if it is not on the first page or second page of search results, chances of a potential customer going to your website are pretty low. You need the search engine to display a link to your site in the top positions of the first page, so that people can see it, click it, and go to your site. To get to the top, you need to convince the search engine, that your site is a) relevant to a certain topic b) important.

Both of these are handled by SEO (search engine optimization).
Relevancy is given by the contents and structure of your site.
Importance is given by other websites linking to you. The search engine can find out how many sites link to your site. The more links going to your website, the more important it is in the eyes of a search engine, the better placement in search results. But it is not only about the total number of incoming links. Links from important websites will give your site more importance.

Having that said, you know you need other websites to link to yours. Their owners will probably ask you to link back to them in exchange. But whatever the deal will be, you need to contact them first. And thats what Freetextlinkexchange.com is about. It contains information about sites of webmasters, who want to exchange or trade links. So instead of browsing through the internet, looking for e-mail addresses and sending link exchange requests to people, who might not even be interested, you can get in touch with other like-minded webmasters here using free listings.

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