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One thing to make sure is that if your using reciprocal linking that all links you trade with are high quality as if you link to banned or penalized sites you can also face a ranking penalty

It can be time consuming to check how you rank in each search engines result's pages but it's something that you need to do to see how your site is ranking.
Traffic analysis will tell you how many visitors you're getting and from where but don't tell your SERP (search engine results pages) positions and link popularity.

Link Popularity is a value assigned to a website based on the number of other websites that link to it.There are many different ways to determine link popularity, but the most commonly used, and arguably the most informative, is the search engine method.The search engine method, which this software utilizes, consists of collecting data from mainstream search engines to see how many webpages indexed by those search engines link to a particular website.This is extremely useful information that can be applied to many different aspects of online business, for example: Comparing the Link Popularity of different domains to determine which is more valuable.

montyauto wrote:Some time a link popularity is steadily climbing on one search engine but my ranking on others is steadily declining ??
Why is that ? Somebody care to help give me an explanation ?

Are you using tool for checking your IBL?

use search engine to check backlinks coz each search engine has different algorithm.

different algos is the answer why your site ranks well in one site and sometimes not in other SEs.. you should observe everyday what specific SEs really love and how they can rank the site..

Every search engine have its own criteria to rank a site.So it is simple that a site have different rank in different search engines.