All of us yearn for just and fair treatment. Unfortunately fair is not always the case on the internet business. This is very true to linking. How many websites do you know that dont play the internet game fairly? When you have agreed to exchange links, they trick you into believing they have linked to your website when in fact, they havent.

Identify Link Theft

This trick is what webmasters call the link theft. But not all lost links should be thrown out to link theft. There are cases when your websites link is lost in a particular page because of online accidents. It is a fact, however, that most cases of lost links or not beneficial links are due to link theft. So in all ways, learn how to avoid link theft. Here are some tips to identify whether or not a particular website is a link thief and what to do to avoid it:

Request For Your Links URL Location

Before you link to a particular site requesting link from your website, ask them first about your links URL location. You have to do this because some websites forget (or intentionally forget) to give your website a link back if you have already given them a link to their website.

Link Robbers Can Deceive

Check whether your link on a particular web page is spiderable or not. This is because some websites trick you into believing your link is already live but in fact its not working right. You can do this by clicking on View Source Code of the page that carries your websites link. Check whether your link follows the standard text link. The standard text link is created using this format:

a href=http://www.yourdomainname.com/ target=_blank>Anchor Text

Some format like the one below is not spiderable by the search engines.

onclick="javascript:newWindow('http://www.yourdomain.com.)>Anchor Text

Check If The Link Will Redirect

How can you check whether your link will just redirect to the same website when clicked? Try pointing your mouses cursor on your link and check the text that appears on the status bar of your web browser. What should appear on the status bar is the url of your website on this format:

http://www.yoursite.com

Format like the one below means the link will redirect to the same website:

http://www.sitedomain.com/page.html

Dynamically Generated Link Pages

Avoid linking on a dynamically generated link page. How will you identify a dynamically generated link page? If it looks like this, then its a dynamically generated link page. The search engines wont be able to read pages like this.

http://www.domainname.com/links/index.php?&brbf=aw

There are a number of thieves online. Dont be one of them and dont be a victim of any of them. Guard the benefits of your links by following these tips and ensure a fair internet linking game!