I have several links (or resource as I am calling them) pages on my website. I was thinking maybe I should use a remotely hosted service that takes care of my links pages automatically. Are there pros and cons to this? If there are pros does anyone recommend any of the free sites that do this?
Kathy
Suzanne posted this at 15:40 — 3rd June 2004.
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I guess it depends mostly on why you have the pages. If they are for you, then a remote site works awesome. If they are for a large audience, a remote site works awesome. If they are for your business or other ideal where you want strong branding and networking "points" then a remote service will be damaging.
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kbsnowball posted this at 16:01 — 3rd June 2004.
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I have them for two reasons. One is a courtesy to visitors and the other is because I heard you get better search engine rankings if you have them.
Kathy
andy206uk posted this at 16:24 — 3rd June 2004.
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Links pages are good, but remember if you use a remotely hosted service the people you link to will never see *your* website in their referer logs! Have a look at cgi-resources.com they have loads of free cgi based link management scripts that you can run on your own website.
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cltwebs posted this at 15:29 — 26th June 2004.
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If you do remote host your link page just make sure that the url of the link page still looks as if it is on your site. Doesn't do much good when someone is trading links with you and their link is really not even on your site. You just got to make sure that the links are branded into your site.
James
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