Link exchanges of specific blogs work if relevant?

[Shawn124]

Hello,

I've always wondered if I have a tech blog and wrote about "why Droid phones are better than Iphones", i would need more links pointed to my specific blog.  Doing so, i find another blog that's reputable with high domain authority that talks about the SAME blog/subject.

Is it wise and good for SEO if i contact the blogger and have each other reference each other's blog with the anchor text link as the brand name in our respective blogs?

It's a typical link exchange, but this is more niche.  Would this help my efforts? And would Google accept our good faith linking to a great article vice versa.

Thanks,

Shawn

[MickEdwards]

there is a good answer to this here - http://moz.com/community/q/reciprocal-links-4

[ClaudioHeilborn]

Hi Shawn124

If you are both relevant to each other, which you have described you are, and if it is reputable, which you have also said it is... I find no problem whatsoever!

Do so if you can and encourage your readers to have a look in this other blog and bring opinions to yours. You can even write about something that this other blog has written and link to him in your article, to show other points of view over the same subject. All clean and honest SEO. White hat SEO in your hands!

That is building a healthy network and I cannot find any penalty or risk on doing so. What google and anybody with two grams of brain should not do is linking to tons of unrelated blogs just to try to get some "link juice" without any common sense.

Hope it’s useful for you!

Regards

Claudio

[MoosaHemani]

highly agree, Tom Roberts explain this really well!!