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SEO 101 - Part 15: Everything You Need to Know About Linking
by Stoney deGeyter. Search Engine Guide, March 30, 2010. "Links come in all different shapes and sizes. Some good, some bad, some are just there. In part 14 of this series we looked at the anatomy of a link, analyzing the different elements that make a link what it is. There are a lot of things to consider when looking at the value of the link, many of which lie in the the value of the page or website doing the liking. But here we'll look at a slightly different value of link, in how it's linked between the two sites. There are three basic ways of linking between sites, One-way, reciprocal and multi-way. We'll take a look at these, their values and whether its a type of linking you should be engaged in..."
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