sheepoverboard.com

* Attention LinkMarket and Value Exchange folk: I am unable to remove SheepOverboard from these link sharing communities due to being unable to login and remove the account/s. Sorry for ‘ignoring’ you. You can still send an email to editor at sheepoverboard dot com.

** Note also: SheepOverboard is NO LONGER exchanging links, but please submit your site (to email address above) and I will evaluate it for a one-way link from us to you. Free, on the house. Please don’t be offended if I cannot, but if I can it’s no big deal. Just that you are useful for my plan for world domination.

 

How to Link to Us:

If you wish to link to SheepOverboard in simple appreciation, kindly add either code example (below) to your page, according to how you want links to behave.

1. Opens SheepOverboard.com in a new browser window:

<a href=”http://www.sheepoverboard.com” target=”_blank”> Sheep Overboard - not exactly news </a>

2. Does not open a new browser window:

<a href=”http://www.sheepoverboard.com”> SheepOverboard  - not exactly news </a>

Or you can use the linking information provided below:

Title:  SheepOverboard (which is a brand, while “Sheep Overboard” is just two words)
URL:  http://www.sheepoverboard.com/
Text (optional):  Not exactly news

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pros and cons of link exchange

  Firstly, why link exchange?  

• We all need links from other web sites to improve Google (and MSN, Yahoo) backward link popularity, get some free page rank, and consequently get boosted in the search engine results pages.
• Why would you link in return? Well, that’s “netiquette.” Getting free links is done by trading, or swapping. Otherwise a one-way link is acquired by either paying for it, or already have a famous web site like WikiPedia that cannot help but attract free links. If so, what are you doing here?
• Finally, what is this odd link-seeking web site, SheepOverboard.com, on about? Well, our editorial staff pound away at the plastic alphabet on a mission to help the world. Our reward is personal gratification, and the satisfaction of being creative. No matter how pathetic the result, it’s the best we can do, and that’s that, I’m afraid.  (Help the world??)

This lofty diversity makes SheepOverboard slightly tricky to exchange links with. 

“Netiquette” - or linking “best practice” for exchange.

This requires that webmasters seeking links must first create a link to the desired web site - as we at SheepOverboard do before approaching other webmasters.

You then email the other webmaster [see sample email] saying “Hello, I linked to you. View it at (URL of page showing link) and let me know if you want anything changed. I would appreciate a link back using this information [your HTML code supplied].

Why SheepOverboard no longer exchanges links

We have decided to continue building our reputation the old-fashioned way.

The editor now accepts literally this beginner’s advice from www.searchenginebook.com:

From the search engine’s point of view (SEPOV), natural links are collected over time as the result of simply being a good web site containing valuable content, great images, funny observations, or whatever it takes to get other sites to link to you without being paid or otherwise coerced to do so.

While this may seem like a simplistic explanation, it truly represents the SEPOV. So, to succeed in proving to the engines that your site is important,you should strive to emulate the three main characteristics of a natural looking link structure which are:

• The incoming links build gradually. Natural inbound links grow slowly over a period of time. From the SEPOV, Web sites don’t generally become super-popular over night. It takes a little while for people to find the site, link to it, and tell all of their friends about it.
• The links are not reciprocal. When someone links to you because they think you have a great web site, they don’t usually ask for a link back to them. From the SEPOV, sites usually swap links only when they’re trying to artificially increase their incoming link-count for ranking purposes and without much (or any) regard to the quality of the content on the page.
• The incoming link’s anchor text is variable. From the SEPOV, natural links show text-link variation from one site to another when referring to a common site. Artificial (bad) links are the opposite they show identical text links usually because of some reciprocal link campaign where the optimizer solicited the links en masse and perhaps even paid for them. These links look artificial from the SEPOV.” “