Should Penguin makes me question all reciprical links, even relevant ones?
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Prior to Penguin, I had begun a link building campaign of sorts for a tourism bureau. All it was designed to do was leverage a wealth of relevant link opportunities that were right under our noses...the bureau's own members. These restaurants, hotels, attractions, etc are extremely relevant web sites with respect to the tourism bureau's target and niche.
The links were to be in the form of image badges stating "Proud member of..." with brand-only alt text and title tags. I will focus on keeping these links a reasonable percentage of the overall domains linking into the site, I will vary the alt text throughout, and cultivate the links slowly over a 5-month period.
But since the bureau's site already drives traffic to these individual member sites, the links we cultivate will end up being reciprocal. Even though they are natural in the purpose they serve, should we be worried, and consider abandoning the program?
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Check this out i saw this video yesterday about this very question.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/10-myths-that-scare-seos-but-shouldnt-whiteboard-friday
the answer you are looking for is his number 6
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I agree with RankSurge. I just re watched a WBF video from not long ago which should help greatly defuse worries you may have. Hope it helps!
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The one constant you should always use as a guide is will this action benefit the reader? Anytime that answer is yes, then you should have nothing to worry about.
If you are using strategies with the intention of building links only, then you have to figure at some point in time, Google will adjust the value of those links.
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