Would you accept backlink exchange from relevant website?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Josh Levenson: Assuming you mean "solicit", not "accept". If you`re buying links from them, so is everyone else.
  
  
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  Sadat Rayid Odowa: Josh Levenson am not buying, we are exchanging
  
  
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  Josh Levenson: Same thing.
  
  
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  Sadat Rayid Odowa: Josh Levenson ok, what`s advice do you give me in relation to the above post?
  
  
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  Josh Levenson: Similar to others. Don`t link to another website unless is helpful to your users. Don`t link to another site that is doing spammy link building. Search engines don`t use DA. You don`t know how many links this site has or how many links are spammy. Google rewards websites that are genuinely helpful to users. It`s hard work. But it`s the only real way to grow site. Most of these link spam tactics are decades old. Google has seen it. You`re not going to fool them.
  
  
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  Michael Martinez: What benefit would there be for your visitors if you link to that site?
  
  
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  Sadat Rayid Odowa: Michael Martinez the site is relevant to my website, just am wondering if it can help me boost my domain authority in the eyes of google given that it`s rankings dropped heavily
  
  
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  Michael Martinez: Sadat Rayid Odowa Nope. Google doesn`t use domain authority - and in the sense of "Google deems a site to be authoritative", link reciprocation will have minimum possible benefit.
  
  itative content links for a purpose, uses terminology correctly, and explains things with a depth and detail that you won`t find in cheesy canned content produced by freelancers who just research topics on the Web.
  
  I don`t think you have sufficient compelling reason to agree to the exchange.
  
  
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  Sadat Rayid Odowa: Michael MartinezMichael Martinez sorry if am sounding stupid, am not getting you, are you meaning that I don`t need backlinks to rank?
  
  
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  Michael Martinez: Sadat Rayid Odowa I don`t know what queries you`re trying to rank for, but what I`m saying is that it doesn`t sound ilke you have a good justification for accepting the reciprocal link request you`re asking about.