Members Area Link Trades

[Nymph]

If you are going to be building a seperate page just for those, then I'd say go for it, give it a try, if it doesn't work, delete the page.

If you are planning on splatering the links among your site, I'd think twice about it.

[Toby]

What I'm seeing these days, when I do see member area trades, are links using affiliate program codes. That takes care of the problem of disproportionate traffic, and also provides an easy way for both parties to monitor the trade.

About the only time I'm seeing uncoded link trades in member areas is when there is a pre-existing established relationship between the sites.

[DannyCox]

We have always done hard links out of our members areas, but the days of "trades" are long gone. We use affiliates codes and get paid for anything we send. We actually do better out of out members area on Carol's site than we do from anything we push in the free side. We are targeting people who have already paid for a site, and many of them have no problem joining multiple sites.