Can this work as a link exchange directory?

Are you asking us to force add a link on their site?

BTW, most search engines don't count reciprocal links very highly, if at all.

himagarwal ,

No we do not have a in place a way to check the receiving site to see if they have a link to you in place. We only check and make sure the site does exist.

Thanks
Robert

@himagarwal: If you can better explain how this might work, we can consider its value to the module. For the moment, I can not see a way to require the other site to post a link to our site. You might want to look at #279029: Sort by referrer hits to see if there might be some synergy in your requests.

Hi Nancy,

I am looking for a reciprocal link exchange facility as well.

I am thinking along the lines of
http:/www.linkex.dk
very nice link exchange module I use to exchange links for SEO and traffic for my site. A link exchange may not only be for SEO but reciprocal traffic as well.
linkex.dk does not count traffic but with Drupal the options are limitless.

There is a module already in place for reciprocal stuff but it seems it cannot be attached individually to nodes as I understand:
http://drupal.org/project/node_link

Reciprocal linking can also be achieved with the pingback module, but I dont think it checks links after a while:
http://drupal.org/project/pingback

Another one worth mentioning was toplist
http://drupal.org/project/toplist
but it seems abandoned as well :)

There was another project aimed at creating link directories but it seems abandoned:
http://drupal.org/project/janode

Then there is another nice module which formulates required links nicely per node:
http://drupal.org/project/link_to_us

All these combined would be a killer :P

I am posting this as a feature request for the Links module too to see which project is more receptive of the idea.
http://drupal.org/node/354107

Remember, reciprocal links may not have SEO value but they do have traffic value, and it is good have many sources of traffic, not just search engines...If you take a look at linkex.dk so called 3 way linking is possible as well with it!

I am open to the idea. But there looks to be a lot of background work in verify a link on someone else's site. You also have to be careful to make sure you don't flood someone else's site and all that other fun stuff. If someone else wants to write the patch I will certainly accept it but as of right now I have no plans to add this feature at this time.

Thanks
Robert

I looked at Janode some time ago, and I don't recall that there is much in it that we don't already have. *EDIT* We can now convert from Janode and there are no significant features it has that we do not.

I briefly looked at node_link and couldn't figure much out. That maintainer has also not put anything in the comparison page. *EDIT* That module is abandoned.

I will look at the others when I can.

See also #91505: Facilitate a link exchange

Ok,
We can convert this to a link exchange. I have done similar things with this module before.
I have made a link checking script to make sure the link was at the fired url, with the required text.
If NancyDru and Robert agrees i will ask them to make required changes to module to work as a link exchange.
There is only a small changes that will make it a link directory. Its already more or less like a link exchange. :)
Regards,
Jasonleon

@jason, you might notice that we already added a "reciprocal" column to the table. If you can beat me to the patch, go for it!

Hello Nancy,
I have mailed you regarding my site details, If you could take out the time to check . I have tried my best to add reciprocal link.
Thanks.

I haven't gotten you email yet. In the 6.x-2.x version, we have added the column to the table, we just don't have the support yet. I had written some code that works for me, but it really needs to be re-done. There should end up being two new add-ons: 1) tracks reciprocal referals, 2) gathers search strings. I don't know if either if these will get back-ported to 5.x though.

Marked #294085: Reciprocal Link Checker duplicate.

I would love to see the reciprocal link checker added.

@NancyDru - are you saying this functionality is in the latest -dev version?

No, it is not available yet. However, because of planning for it, as well as one of the conversion modules, we have already added a field to the weblinks table to hold the reciprocal link. We also have some basic code that runs through the accesslog and finds external referrers. Now, we have to better handle that scan and then match it up to the reciprocal link and count them. Patches are welcome.

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