Do non-reciprocal links make ranking worst?

[Lattman]

Hi Buddy, I was wondering if I should get ride of my directory all together along with eSyndicate and just create an article?

Thx

Originally Posted by SkGold

Okay, let see it from example. Let say, I created an article about Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization and I have the following paragraphs in my article.

First paragraph:
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No matter how revolutionary your product or service is, unless it is backed by a well-done Internet Marketing strategy, it is as good as being non-existent.
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Second paragraph:
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Most Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts teach you how to optimize a web page for good search engine ranking, but not everybody tell you what you must NOT do in order to avoid over optimization penalty.
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Now I have 2 links from these paragraphs to my site. These links are quality links because they are anchor text links, have my most important keywords and coming from the article related to my niche.

Please remember your article should be indexed by SE and cannot be in supplemental index, otherwise the links will be almost useless.

I hope this helps.

[SkGold]

Originally Posted by Lattman

Hi Buddy, I was wondering if I should get ride of my directory all together along with eSyndicate and just create an article?
Thx

I don’t want to scare out eSyndicat customers. eSyndicat script is very good for directory purpose.

But if your purpose to build the links to your moneymaking site and get good positions in serps, there are a lot of much better methods than directory script.

To get the best results you need to combine all (or at least the biggest portion) SEO techniques together. Just an article may not help you as well.

I can’t really suggest you something, as I know nothing about your business.

[Vasily B.]

Originally Posted by SkGold

Any external link is decreasing your Google page rank, even if it is receptional. (Some of the internal links do it as well.) I guess you can’t avoid it if you have a directory.

AFAIK google bot does not understand redirects. So there are two ways to avoid this - use redirects instead of direct links to those sites and have no follow attribute in links. Though I'm not sure about no-follow
But here another issue arises. There are not so many webmasters who want to have a listing from this kind of directories. They get no benefit from this link except minimal traffic

[Lattman]

Here's my web site in order to give you a better understanding of what we do..

www.global-uniforms.com

Originally Posted by SkGold

I don’t want to scare out eSyndicat customers. eSyndicat script is very good for directory purpose.

But if your purpose to build the links to your moneymaking site and get good positions in serps, there are a lot of much better methods than directory script.

To get the best results you need to combine all (or at least the biggest portion) SEO techniques together. Just an article may not help you as well.

I can’t really suggest you something, as I know nothing about your business.

[Sai_dallas]

Originally Posted by Lattman

What's the use of using esyndicate if it's going to decrease my page rank? I don't get it? My goal is not to have a directory, it's to increase page rank...

submit your site to other directories and blogs that would increase your PR.

if you only allow reciprocal links that should do good.

Thanks

[SkGold]

Originally Posted by Lattman

Here's my web site in order to give you a better understanding of what we do..

www.global-uniforms.com

I did quick look on your site.
Well, your site design (coding) is absolutely not SE-friendly.
Take a look here to see what your site will look like in search-engine results.

As your site design is not SE-friendly it will never appear in Serps naturally.
It will be very hard to achieve good positions in organic serps with site design this way. Everything is possible, but it will be very hard and just natural and free SEO techniques will not help in your situation.

If you really want to get good positions in organic Serps, first I would seriously think about SE-friendly redesign of your site. Then you may implement search-engine optimization techniques like keywords research (to find out what people in your niche looking for), content creation and optimization for your keywords, links building (anchor text links with your keywords) and so on…