SE friendly Links

September 10th, 2005, 4:07 am

See, I have this message board, I'm currently in the process of gathering as many reciprocal links as possible. I have a few doubts.

The board can be accessed from 4 links :

http://www.invisionplus.net/index.php?mforums=cricket

and

http://cricket.invisionplus.net

Theres also the IPDynamic lite page for the forums:

http://www.invisionplus.net/forums/inde ... t&act=home

and also the lo-fi version of the forums ( bear in mind that I couldn find a way to get rid of the session URL thing, therefore had to install the lo-fi version for bots) at:

http://cricket.invisionplus.net/forums/ ... index.php/


Could you please tell me which ofthese 4 links would be more suitable for me to provide to my link exchange partners to put on their site ? I mean from a "more likely to be indexed by google" point of view. it wouldnt look good to provide the lofi version page as the link, so of the other 3 links, which is preferable ?

September 12th, 2005, 12:09 am

I would use this page: http://cricket.invisionplus.net/forums/ ... index.php/

It looks the best to the bots....you might want to add description tags to the pages to get the maximum effect.

This page would be my second choice: http://cricket.invisionplus.net

You could get good rankings in google by just using well defined anchor text regardless of the structure of the page and the links on it....you could also link this page to the lofi version and use it as a site map.

The page addresses with the arguments in them I would avoid completely.

September 14th, 2005, 7:41 am

Thank you for your reply. Much appreciated. Just 1 thing more. The board index ( http://cricket.invisionplus.net ) has PR2 while the lo fi version has PR 0. I've heard that the more the page address deviates from the domain name, the lesser the chances of google following and going deeper into it. Is it true ? Wouldnt that mean that the lofi version isnt more suitable than the board index to be provided as backlinks since it has such a long address ? Please clarify my doubts.