Current Linking Practices

[pcm535]

Hello... I am in charge of adding links to our site. My current practice is look at the links page where our potential link would be (or already is) - if the page rank is 4 or more I am more than willing to post a link in return. If the page rank is lower 3 or less, I take a look at the relevance and decide accordingly. I am wondering if linking to a site (even if highly relevant) with a pagerank of zero (on the page where our link would be) could help us at all or could it even potentially hurt us?
I am curious to hear your opinions and your current criteria for linking?

[infovision]

Hi,
Now a days PR does not matter, always look for better relevancy. In Yahoo, content would be king. Add more quality content to your website and create proper sitemap so that yahoo can easily spinder all your webpages. Try to get quality links from well organised directories and other relevent websites. Yahoo also give preference to proper Meta tags, handings, bold content, etc.

[wrmineo]

I don't worry about PR so much as the content of the site and its relevancy to mine.

Also, if the page and site is in good standing and order but simply rather new or has not yet accumulated many BLs, I simply view them as an investment if they have a lower PR ... in six months that zero or one could be much highers and then the tables maybe turned, maybe them less acceptable to exchanging links with you.

Regardless of the site's PR, you should run it through whois to ensure that their host is not blacklisted or has a history of being blacklisted. It's not too uncommon to find a high PR site that will soon be losing that due to a blacklist for spam. http://www.whois.sc/ - after the trailing / put in the site name and TLD.

Another nice check is with archive.org - to see what the site used to look like. Another unfortunate reality may be that a site has a high PR but was bought and turned into something completely different.

Good Luck and Happy Ranking!

[Web Gazelle]

Yahoo doesn't really care about PR. My only suggestion is you check to see if the site is indexed in yahoo before considering a reciprocal link.

[fun to be dumb]

I hate to let you know page rank is nothing but a toy, for amusement and has nothing to do with how good your site is or how credible you site is. So don't act so proud because you have a pr5,6,7 or whatever. If you don't beleive I can post my private email I received from google. Its a gimmick, ask them yourself.

[fun to be dumb]

I hate to let you know page rank is nothing but a toy, for amusement and has nothing to do with how good your site is or how credible you site is. So don't act so proud because you have a pr5,6,7 or whatever. If you don't beleive I can post my private email I received from google. Its a gimmick, ask them yourself.

[fun to be dumb]

I hate to let you know page rank is nothing but a toy, for amusement and has nothing to do with how good your site is or how credible you site is. So don't act so proud because you have a pr5,6,7 or whatever. If you don't beleive I can post my private email I received from google. Its a gimmick, ask them yourself.

[DMC_34]

Three times said three times confirmed. PR doesnt infuence rankings on Google why should it on Yahoo.

DMC

[brian.mark]

Our criteria is simple.

1) Does the site match our intended audience? If not, no need for a link from them.

2) Is the site a site I don't mind recommending to our visitors? If not, I don't want to link to them.

3) Are they a competitor? If so, I don't want to link to them. (Content sites are different, but for e-commerce it doesn't make sense to link to them.)

Everything else is just going to make for links that don't build quality, just quantity. Link because the link makes sense, not for search engines. After all, a good link can result in a lot of traffic as well as increase your rankings. An unrelated link may not do either.

Brian.

[khurramali]

Outgoing links from your website are just like you voting for the presidential elections.

You only vote for the best candidate according to your analyses, research and belief.

So before you go on a linking frenzy, condier the example above.

Every vote counts.

[bobkom]

Originally Posted by khurramali

Outgoing links from your website are just like you voting for the presidential elections.

You only vote for the best candidate according to your analyses, research and belief.

So before you go on a linking frenzy, condier the example above.

Every vote counts.

Hi friend i have a doubt and may be think as a problem iam just started a forum www.indianworld.in and at the leisure time i post my site url in the directories and some directories are asking about the reciprocal linking and i have created a link.html page and put the links there but actually the links page is not visible to the visors because i dont have index page and only a forum but the thing is i have read that while submitting the website to the directory that a software is there and it will looks the reciprocal links if the reciprocal links are not found the site will be deleted from the directory i have a doubt that whether the software looks the domain or the links page in my domain that i have paste the link of their directory is it wrong way or good way plz tell me waiting for ur reply.

[brian.mark]

It's easy enough for them to check if the page is valid and has their link on it, but for them to take the time to write a spider to see if they can get to it is another story. I know of a few that test PR of the links page, but I've never seen one with a spider that attempts to crawl to the links page you listed.

Most don't even look for meta's for noindex, nofollow or rel=nofollow, although that's starting to report errors in a few of the more sophisticated directories.

Brian.

[fun to be dumb]

This is a little off topic, but why are my posts repeated numerous of times. I only entered one post on this subject. Strange I never seen this happen before.

[brian.mark]

Originally Posted by fun to be dumb

This is a little off topic, but why are my posts repeated numerous of times. I only entered one post on this subject. Strange I never seen this happen before.

That's something should be asked in "WPW suggestions and comments" so Mike can look into it.

Brian.

[pcm535]

I appreciate your responses to the topic of link criteria. I understand the issue of relevancy. I often get emails from "health directories" and we are a drug rehab clinic. When I check out the site, I can't decide whether I ought to link. I guess it is relevant... ? I also wonder if I ought to be cautious linking to highly relevant sites that have "linking programs." It seems useless for our site to be in some huge directory of links attached to a site even if it is related. I try to get them to put us on pages other than the directory pages.