Does anyone have experience with linkpartners.com or links manager?

Are they good? Are they dangerous for SEO? Do you like them?

Please share your thoughts and experiences.

I looked into links manager... I didn't spend to much investigating. Their technology looked great... I would say that you will want to host the pages on your side... don't let them host your links... that part confused me. Why would you want them hosting your links on your domain? Maybe I misread something... anyone else see that?

I think they do that to control dead links??? Maybe they have a process to introduce your site to the related sites in their Database??

You have a choice of either "LinkPartners" which is manual submission or "LinksManager" which is automated. My friend is using the automated "linksmanager" and he loves it. I think this could be a great way to build up link popularity since you control (links partners) who you want to link to and who you dont. That means, sites with good PR approved and those who arent not.

He has joined them last week (Automated Links Manager) and he already has 114 links on his directory (www.123computerbooks.com (favorite links page)??? I would like to hear other opinions though before i sign up.

Any other takers?

I spoke to my friend and he said you get a choice of either hosting the links on their server or your own. He is hosting it on his own... Whats your take Captain?

You want the links to point to your domain.... not theirs. So host your own I imagine. Do they have a way to give your site credit for the links through some sort of sub-domain?

I am under the impression that the links would be useless if they are hosted on their domain. anyone else have feedback on this?

As mineral said we are hosting it on our server

This question is sort of related to links and SOE...

When we belong to an affiliate program, and when that affiliate program links to us through an affiliate company (in my case, shareasale), do those links help us get a higher page rank in google? The links go through the third-party affiliate company, so I doubt that I will benefit, but perhaps google is smarter than we think.

Great question...any takers?

I have received one private email suggesting that it does not help -- from someone who seems to know a lot about these affiliate matters.

These links do not help you... in fact, they can hurt you, if they come via a re-direct. We have delayed the launch of our affiliate program by 1-2 weeks to ensure our affiliate program does not hurt our rankings.

It is important to be very cautious when modifying your site... even if you are doing something not intended to alter or influence Google results... you can get penalized for implenting non-google-friendly code.