: Do search engines dislike subscriber exchanges on websites? I was thinking about adding a sub4sub subscriber exchange section to my forum area about Youtube. Before I do, I wanted to know if

@Sarah324

Trading for something will always make any website low quality. Take a example of this website. It's not about what you're doing with Youtube, then you'll lose your ranking because it is Google own product. It applies the same to other social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

The thread gonna post by any user does not have any value, which make your webpages low quality and those pages will kept some juicyrank, so no more juicyrank will left for other important webpages.

If you want to start that kind of sub forum, I highly recomend to block such thing from Googlebot/spider via robots.txt or use meta header tags.

The conclusion is indexing low quality content will make your website performance lower in SERP. It's apply to all topics.

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@Radia820

Google rarely reveals the factors they use when calculating a sites position in the search rankings. It's also impossible to know the weight of each factor, but what we do know is that backlinks is the most influential and Google has said that trading links is against their guidelines because it is manipulation of search results.

Google has never confirmed they use social media likes or followers as a factor however many top SEO'ers believe that social media presence increases trust. Assuming that this is the case then you should assume that Google has things in place to detect such activities. If this is the case then its very detectable.

You should also be aware that Twitter and Facebook do not allow such activities and regularly remove likes, followers and so on regularly.Your best of spending your efforts on improving your social presence naturally, however slow it may be it'll be better than 1000's of users that will do nothing for your site.

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