Do search engines dislike you linking to

[montyauto]

Hi there,

I made my page say as domain.com listing any link to other domain that contains certain link back to domain.com

Do search engines dislike it?

If so, why?

[Sai_dallas]

I don't think it is an issue.

Thanks

[OWG]

reciporocal linking is not a fraction as effective as one way linking form on topic pages. Trading links with sites that are not on topic to the page you are linking out from will harm your relevancy, and as such hurt your rankings.

NB this is OUT links, not in links, as you can't control who is linking to you.

[Simon Gooffin]

AFAIK, few years ago reciprocal linking was a very popular way to get better results in search engines.. now se get smarter and they pay greater attention to real links they point to your site

[microlinx]

So, in other words using a script like this is useless if not detrimental to a site? That's what I'm seeing here and that's what a recent PR update is proving. dropped from PR 5 to PR 4.
With only 100 links, Google is finding (or shoul di say counting) THOUSANDS in the script.

I am going to do a robots.txt "disallow" for the links directory and remove from my sitemap.
I will also start decomissioning the script by verifying "good" links and removing as many links as possible. That's a pretty tough task, using the "tools" provided with the script.
The Google PR feature was my one tool to evaluate possible link partners, but with that broken, and no recip link checker, and the "other than smooth" workflow, it's all become a mess.

[adityabizz]

Reciprocal linking still works, in a limited way. Relevancy is the key here.