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Originally Posted by Jakez
I'm sure link trading is still beneficial. Was kind of just referring to the dated methods of link trading as far as it being a negative impact on SE ranking. I've been out of the loop for 3 or so years so not sure what is going on lately. But yeah I still doubted that link trading was a negative thing. Just that the easy ways that are/were used to trade traffic before are probably bad.
I'm sure if it were written in plain view what causes the SE traffic flow to go down or up (which obviously are extremely complex algorithms these days) and what to do and what not to do, it would quickly be manipulated, which is why things are kept a secret. Just as easily you could say everything I said in this paragraph is false and that the search engines have already explained many times what to do - which is to have an honest natural system of trading traffic and not something just focused on.. trading traffic..
If your trades are realistic and warranted and necessary when done so then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. But trading traffic just for the sake of bartering probably isn't the best way to go about things today.
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Well,the key difference between trading then and now,how you could get much easier se traffic which you used then as feeding traffic.
And what you label as "honest trading traffic" exist - it is trade based on no skim,aka trading based over links only,not when you click on image.Sites which represent such trading is babelogs,which are some sort of "relatives " of TGP's as they share trading principle.But unlike TGP sites which got nailed hard by googlez,babelog sites still survive due their site structure - they make post,and each post is an actual page,while on TGP you mostly have a single frontpage and maybe few archives and nothing more,which is in eyes of google "thin content" ,making such site a candidate for de-indexing.