Linking TO websites - Page 2

janeth · #51 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 12:45 PM

Hi PhilC,

That works for me the main thing I was thinking was that you where against link exchanges.

But as you stated there would be no way for the standard web site to build pr with out it.

PhilC · #52 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 01:00 PM

Nobody should be against link exchanges. I'm very fussy about the pages I exchange with though. In fact, I rarely do it. The people who want the exchanges always seem to be small sites that want to take advantage of your traffic, or low PR sites and pages, who want to take advantage of your PR. I'll exchange with non-competitors on a reasonably equal level (or higher) but not with most people who ask.

jackson992 · #53 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 03:33 PM

Thanks Mel. I understand now lol. There must be a way to figure out what our actual PR is.

Phil:

So when someone asks my PR 4 site for a link to trade and their site is PR 2 that would be suicide for me right?

PhilC · #54 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 03:41 PM

Unfortunately, there is no way to work out what a page's actual PageRank is.

It wouldn't be suicide. I wouldn't exchange links from a PR4 to a PR2, but other people might.

seafoam · #55 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 06:58 PM

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So when someone asks my PR 4 site for a link to trade and their site is PR 2 that would be suicide for me right?

Not really.

It could just be that they are a new site. My latest is still PR2, but it won't be for long;-) So anyone who refuses a link on that basis would be shooting themselves in the foot.

It would be better to judge the site on other factors, like does it have any unique content that might eventually attract more links? Or the general quality of the site. Does the webmaster seem like someone who knows what they are doing and means business. Or have they just thrown a site together, using a free server and no domain name?

I was checking out a possible link exchange yesterday, and it said they would only exchange links if their link was on a PR4 page. When I looked, their own links page only had PR2!

I seldom link with sites that don't pass a reasonable amount of PR to their links page. I try to give my link partners a good deal (a very good deal in fact), and expect the same in return.

PhilC · #56 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 07:09 PM

I've never used this technique myself, and I've never responded to one, but I keep seeing links on sites that say something meaning, 'exchange links with this site'. I often think that many website owners would go for it, and it's probably one good way of getting link exchanges - by letting them come to you.

Najoba · #57 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 10:54 PM

I am a newbie with an e-commerce site that just came on-line in December, so I can't say much that would be too enlightening..other than this: I ran an analysis with software on the consistently #1 ranked competitor and found the site had between 200 and 700+ links, depending on the search engine. Now, if I can just figure out how to get good mutual links that are not those of my competitors. Any ideas?

PhilC · #58 (**permalink**) 01-30-2004, 11:10 PM

Well, you could offer to exchange links on your site (as above).

The main way that people use is to search on your main searchterms and find the sites that link to the top 20 or more results - provided that the results are relevant. Then get in touch with the linking sites and ask for a link or a link exchange.

janeth · #59 (**permalink**) 01-31-2004, 12:08 AM

I agree with seafoam. My site was a pr0 less then a year ago and then it was a pr6 last month and a pr5 this month and will probley be a pr6 again next month.

I would rather be the only link on a pr5 site then one of a 1,000 on a pr8 site.

Just my two cents