Link trading among non competing photographers

What are you thoughts on trading links with non competing photographers?

It depends what your goals are. If your goals are to simply increase the number of clickthroughs to your site, doing this may lead to that. If your goals are to increase your rank in Google--don't do it. Google explicitly bans this behavior and will smack any offenders eventually.

Pro tip: vary the anchor text profile. 90% of links to your site with the precise keywords you want to rank for will basically signal to google that you're spamming and aren't worthy of being ranked. This may not matter for no-follows (I have no idea), but I'd still be careful.

enginyr wrote in post #17296209
What are you thoughts on trading links with non competing photographers?

Pointless.

I would trade links with you Peter *LOL* Totally agree with you.

Please elaborate why it's pointless

enginyr wrote in post #17299507
Please elaborate why it's pointless

...how about explaining why you think it would be a good idea?

Why bother? If you have the time and the inclination, link trading is far from a complete waste of time. Any form of free advertising is highly desirable on the Internet, where so much is available to the traffic you hope to capture. There’s little risk in link trading (you stand the chance of losing time, nothing else) as long as you thoroughly investigate where each offer is coming from first.

Link trading can potentially boost your traffic — slightly. When getting any form of traffic is the most sought-after goal of websites, anything capable of doing that is a good idea

http://www.seochat.com …ood-idea-or-waste-of-time

You have no idea what you're talking about.

enginyr wrote in post #17299552
Why bother? If you have the time and the inclination, link trading is far from a complete waste of time. Any form of free advertising is highly desirable on the Internet, where so much is available to the traffic you hope to capture. There’s little risk in link trading (you stand the chance of losing time, nothing else) as long as you thoroughly investigate where each offer is coming from first.

Link trading can potentially boost your traffic — slightly. When getting any form of traffic is the most sought-after goal of websites, anything capable of doing that is a good idea

http://www.seochat.com …ood-idea-or-waste-of-time

Christopher Steven b wrote in post #17299574
You have no idea what you're talking about.

Agreed. Spend time on pointless link building... or spend time improving organic SEO through high quality website content and spend time increasing social media traffic. I know which one of those yields the best returns... and it certainly ain't link building.

OP... I suggest you do some more homework.
https://support.google​.com/webmasters/answer​/66356?hl=en

Christopher Steven b wrote in post #17299574
You have no idea what you're talking about.

I linked to where I got the content from, under the paragraph.

https://support.google​.com/webmasters/answer​/66356?hl=en

That is what google has to say on the matter.

Now there are very specific scenarios--you haven't fully described what you have in mind--that might be alright. If you do portraits and your buddy down the street does pet photography, referring customers to each other (including via a link) might be beneficial for business. Partnerships like this are fine.

But if what you have in mind is a ring of photographers from different geographic regions linking to each other--well, you will eventually be penalized and knocked into the wilderness of the google landscape.

Take anything you read about SEO with a grain of salt. Anyone who tells you you only have to do x,y,z, and x,y,z take no time and are easy is offering BS.

enginyr wrote in post #17299839
I linked to where I got the content from, under the paragraph.