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1. Why Trade Links?
2. How Do I Qualify For MonsterLinkSwap.com?
3. What Is MonsterLinkSwap.com’s Reciprocal Link Information?
4. What Benefit Does MonsterLinkSwap.com Give Me?
5. How Does My Account Work?
6. How Many URL’s Can I List With MonsterLinkSwap.com?
7. How Do I Validate My New Account?
8. How Do I Validate A New URL I’ve Added?
9. How Do I Change My Account Information?
10. How Can I See All Of My Subscriptions?
11. What Are Filters?
12. How Do Filters Work?
13. How Can I Change My Filters?
14. How Do I Trade Links?
15. I Added My Partners Link - Your Spider Isn't Finding it! Why?
16. How Do I Remove Worthless Jobs From My Jobs List?
17. How Many Links Can I Have In My Link Cart?
18. How Do I Look At Outstanding Jobs My Partners Have To Act On?
19. How Do I Look At Completed Jobs?
20. Can I Sort My Jobs?
21. How Do I Contact A Web Site About A Trade Issue I Have With Them?
22. How Do I Find Relevant Sites To Trade Links With?
23. What Is The Alexa Rank?
24. What Is The Google Rank?
25. How Can I Check That A Partner Has Really Put My Link Up On Their Site?
26. How Do I Review Details Of A Trade?
27. How Do I Keep Notes On A Trade?
28. What Do I Get With A Free Account?
29. What Do I Get With A Subscription?
30. How Do I Cancel My Account Or A URL?
31. I Have Multiple URL’s. How Do I Switch Between The URL’s?
32. Can I Take A Tour Of The Member Site?
33. I get a validation error when I try to login!
34. I am having trouble validating my new account or changing an email address!
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Why Trade Links?
Trading links with other web sites is an important part of any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy. You’ve built your website spam free, with solid meta tags and appropriate keyword saturization. You’ve submitted your site to all the major search engines and you’re listed. But when you do a search in a major search engine, you find that there are millions of search results for the keywords for which you want to be found and you’re nowhere near the top of those results!
Another VERY important consideration that most major search engines (certainly Google) take into consideration is your sites “popularity”. This is also referred to as “Page Rank”. The philosophy is this… the more sites that have a link to your site, the more relevant your site must be! The most relevant sites appear at the top of the search results!
Building site popularity/page rank can be time consuming. Many other link exchange sites, or link farms, will offer a “quick fix” to this problem by offering you thousands of return links instantly. Such “link farms” are considered spammy by many search engines and could result in your site being banned from the search results. Avoid spamming at all costs.
MonsterLinkSwap.com offers you a directory of thousands of websites who are all wanting to exchange links with other sites. You benefit from these link trades in that your site popularity is boosted while avoiding a “spammy” stereotype from the major search engines.
Good luck in your SEO strategy!
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How Do I Qualify For MonsterLinkSwap.com?
If you are a webmaster, or are in charge of adding or removing reciprocal links for a website, you qualify for MonsterLinkSwap.com’s Link Exchange Directory.
We verify links using a spider. If your site does not show the actual link to your partners site, but contains a link to a database which then points to your partners site, our spider will not be able to verify your link and we may not be a good match for you. Such link pages do not provide "page rank" value to your link partners as these links cannot be indexed by the search engines.
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What Is MonsterLinkSwap.com’s Reciprocal Link Information?
You can use the HTML in the text box below:
Or you can use the following text:
MonsterLinkSwap.com: Trade links quickly and easily with thousands of other willing web sites! Our link exchange process saves countless hours in the link trade process to let you focus on what’s important on your website!
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What Benefit Does MonsterLinkSwap.com Give Me?
MonsterLinkSwap.com provides you with the following:
• A directory of websites organized by category and sub-category that are searching for link exchange partners.
• An automated process by which you can search our directory and send mass link requests to potential partners.
• An automated notification system notifying you when potential partners have requested a link from you or when a potential partner has responded to your request.
• An automated link code generator that creates the html you need to paste into your link pages.
• An automated return link validation system to ensure that your link partners have added a link to you. Use the tool as often as you like.
• A job tracking system which allows you to track all link trade requests in every stage of the link trade process.
• A tool to keep notes about the trade at each step of the process. You can see outstanding jobs, completed jobs, jobs needing action from you, and jobs needing action from your potential partners.
• An account management facility to change your listings, add or remove listings, change your member email, password, contact emails, and more.
• You can list multiple URL’s and manage them from one login session!
• A filtering system which allows you to filter sites that can request links with you. You can filter at category or sub-category level if your SEO strategy requires you to link with sites that have similar content.
• And it’s all provided for FREE!
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How Does My Account Work?
When you sign up, you build a primary account owner, and a contact for each URL that you register with us. You may use the same email address for your primary account and each URL or a different email address for each. The URL contact email addresses will be used to notify you of link requests and links that have been added to your site.
Each unique email address you have on record with us will need to be validated. An email will be sent to each unique email address you register with us and you must follow the link in that email to make that email address effective.
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How Many URL’s Can I List With MonsterLinkSwap.com?
You can list an unlimited number of URL’s with MonsterLinkSwap.com. However, you may only add up to 20 URL’s in any one session. Once you’ve finalized those 20 URL’s, you may immediately build another 20.
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How Do I Validate My New Account?
An email will be sent to each unique email address you register with us (for your primary account/user id and for each URL). You must follow the link in that email to make that email address effective. Your primary email address must be validated before your account is effective.
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How Do I Validate A New URL I’ve Added?
If the contact email address for the url you added already exists in your account, there is no validation necessary. If not, an email will be sent to the url's contact email address. You must follow the link in that email to make that email address (and the new URL) effective.
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How Do I Change My Account Information?
Once you’ve logged in to your account, go to the “My Account” tab using the navigation bar at the top of the page. From the “My Account” tab, you can edit a URL, add a URL, delete a URL, change email addresses, change your primary email address, change your password, or review your subscriptions.
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How Can I See All Of My Subscriptions?
You can see all of the subscriptions you have with us by clicking the “My Account” tab using the navigation bar at the top of the page (once you’ve logged in). The sub-navigation bar will have a link titled “Subscriptions Summary” which will take you to the page listing all of your subscriptions.
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What Are Filters?
Many webmasters only want to exchange links with sites that contain similar content to their own. The theory is that your page rank is influenced more by sites linking to you with similar content. When you sign up, you can choose to filter the sites with which you would like to exchange links. The filtering is accomplished through the categorization of each website registered with us. You decide which categories or sub-categories you would like to allow or disallow in your link trading strategy and we take care of the rest!
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How Do Filters Work?
We only allow sites to send link trade requests with sites who have allowed their category or sub-category – those sites who have not filtered their category or sub-category.
By using the filter option, you will limit the number of requests you receive, but each request will be relevant to your web sites categorization.
Even if you have signed up for filtering, you may still request links with any site who has not filtered your category (even if you have filtered their category).
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How Can I Change My Filters?
Once you have logged in to your account, click the “My Account” tab using the navigation bar at the top of the page. From there, find the URL on which you wish to add filters and click the “Edit This Listing” link. From their, simply follow the “Continue” buttons that navigate you through the URL information and you can request the filters you desire for this URL.
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How Do I Trade Links?
The link trade process is easy. There are 4 steps in the process involving 2 parties, A and B:
1. Party A requests a link trade with party B.
2. Party B accepts or denies the link request.
3. Party A adds B’s link to their site.
4. Party B adds A’s link to their site.
Step 1: To request a link trade, simply browse our directory by category, sub category, or by specific keywords using the search facility. Check the boxes of the sites you would like to trade links with and add those sites to your link cart.
Once you’re done shopping for sites, go to the “Link Cart” tab and click “Send Requests”. The sites you selected are automatically notified that they have a link request.
Step 2: To accept or deny a link request, login to your account and look through your link jobs on the “Link Jobs” tab. When you click the “reply” link, you have the option to then “Accept” or “Deny” the link request.
Steps 3 and 4: To add a link to your site, login to your account and look through your link jobs on the “Link Jobs” tab. When you click “Link”, you see a screen that displays all the information you need to build the link on your site, including the actual html if you choose to use it. Once the link has been added to your site, simply enter the url where you added the link in the space provided and click “Submit Link”. The url you enter must be the exact page on your site where you placed your partners link or our spider will not be able to verify the link. Our system will verify that the link has been added and notify your link partner.
To get a better feel for these steps, feel free to take our Unguided Tour.
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I Added My Partners Link - Your Spider Isn't Finding it! Why?
There are several things you should verify if our spider is not finding your partners link.
1. Make sure you are entering the specific url of the link page on your site where you added the actual html link to your link exchange partner. If you tell us the wrong page, or your home page instead of the link page, then our spider will not find the link to your partner.
2. Make sure your html code is correct. If you omit a / in the http:// for example, or link to your partners link page instead of the page they have listed in our directory, our spider will not find the link.
3. The "www" does matter. Since the page rank for "www.yourdomain.com" can be different than the page rank for "yourdomain.com", you need to code the url to your link partner as they entered it into our directory. That is how they prefer to be linked to and our spider checks for the link in that format.
4. You might check your link page to make sure it is available. If the page is down temporarily, for whatever reason, then we won't be able to open the page to look for the link.
5. If your link pages do not directly link to your partners site but go through a database first, then our spider will not find the link to your partner. Sites that use this type of linking strategy do not qualify for MonsterLinkSwap.com and do not provide "page rank" value to their link partners as these links cannot be indexed by the search engines.
6. If you have validated the above 3 items and still cannot get our spider to find your partners link, write us and include the url you entered in item 1 above, and the link partners site in item 2 above.
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How Do I Remove Worthless Jobs From My Jobs List?
There will be sites that will be unresponsive. If you would like to keep your jobs list clean, you can “inactivate” jobs on which you don’t expect to get a response.
Or perhaps you have successfully completed steps 1-3, but never receive the final return link. In that situation, you may decide to take down the link to your partner and “inactivate” the job.
It’s up to you how you manage your jobs.
Jobs on which your partner must act are shown on the “Their Jobs” subtab under the “Link Jobs” tab.
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How Many Links Can I Have In My Link Cart?
You can add up to 100 link requests to your cart before you are required to submit the requests. After you’ve sent your requests, you can proceed to fill your link cart again.
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How Do I Look At Outstanding Jobs My Partners Have To Act On?
Jobs on which your partner must act are shown on the “Their Jobs” subtab under the “Link Jobs” tab.
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How Do I Look At Completed Jobs?
Jobs which have been completed are shown on the “Completed Jobs” subtab under the “Link Jobs” tab.
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Can I Sort My Jobs?
You can sort your jobs on the last activity “Date” and on the next scheduled “Action” by clicking the headings in the table.
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How Do I Contact A Web Site About A Trade Issue I Have With Them?
For privacy reasons, we do not give out any websites contact email address. You can browse their site to see if they have a “contact us” page or an email address.
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How Do I Find Relevant Sites To Trade Links With?
You can find sites to trade with by browsing our directory. Login to your account, go to the “Directory” tab, click on a category, a sub category, or enter specific keywords using the search facility.
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What Is The Alexa Rank?
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What Is The Google Rank?
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How Can I Check That A Partner Has Really Put My Link Up On Their Site?
You can validate a return link by going to the “Link Jobs” tab, finding the trade in question, clicking on the “Details” link, and using our validation facility on that page. You will see a “Check Link” button to the right of the table displaying the details. Simply click that button and we will search the page where the link to your site is supposed to reside and report back to you if it was found.
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How Do I Review Details Of A Trade?
You can review the details of a trade on the “Details” page. You can find this page a couple ways. 1. By browsing our directory – if you have traded links with a site, the directory will have a link to the trade details page. 2. By going to the “Link Jobs” tab and clicking on the “Details” link on any of the sub-Link Jobs pages.
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How Do I Keep Notes On A Trade?
At every step of the link trade process, you will see a space provided to enter your notes.
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What Do I Get With A Free Account?
A free account is a non-expiring trial account. You get to browse our directory, but you are only allowed to send 10 link requests per day. This allows you to try our service before buying.
Other web sites are not allowed to request trades with free accounts. By upgrading to a full membership, you get unlimited daily link requests, and all other members can request links with you.
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What Do I Get With A Subscription?
With a full membership, you send unlimited daily link requests. All other members can request links with you. Your volume of link requests will be exponentially higher with a full membership than under the trial free membership.
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How Do I Cancel My Account Or A URL?
You can cancel your account or a specific URL on the “My Account” tab. To cancel a URL, simply click the “Delete This URL” link associated with the URL in question. To cancel your entire account, click “Cancel Membership” on the sub-navigation bar on the “My Account” tab.
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I Have Multiple URL’s. How Do I Switch Between The URL’s?
Once you’ve logged in, you will notice just below the red dividing line at the top of the page a link to “[Switch Url’s]”. Click that link and you will be given a list of URL’s to choose from. The active URL you are working with will always be displayed beneath the red dividing line.
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Can I Take A Tour Of The Member Site?
Absolutely! Click here to go to a sample login on which you can browse the member site. The links work, but the data is not real. This unguided tour will give you an idea of the functionality that exists on this site.
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