question about backlinks on homepage
 

Hey there,

Recently I got a bunch of link exchanges for my website and its getting kind of spammy.I already have around 15-20 links on my main homepage and I noticed my Ahrefs DA go down 2 points.Now Im not sure if its because of that or something else,but nonetheless its getting spammy.

Is the only way to go around having to put links on the homepage/partners page by having a kind of "spam site"?By spam site I mean a site with good DA which is obviously still in good standing with google but which I could use to exchange links with.

So for example example1 is my spam site:

I give link from example1 to yoursite1 in exchange for a link on yoursite1 for myrealsite1.

Or is there any way other than that?

Thanks