Little confused have done a lot of reading up on SEO and one thing that is allways said is that a sites PR on the google tool bar is just for vanity I have noticed over on the links exchange section the requests nearly allways insist on PR2-PR3 or more,now if PR is not really relevant as the SEO guys say why do they insist on the high PR. I have a month old site PR0 and have link exchange requests to me from PR3 & PR4 sites they don't seem to see my low PR as a problem. Am i missing something here
The values displayed by google toolbar are not always accurate but if you are trying to do link exchange with websites with similar rank it is still the best tool. Simply better than nothing
People will more normally trust a website with PR. They dont want to link to some crappy site that may just be forgotten about. If you want people to link to you then create content that makes them WANT to link to you. Doing link exchanges for new sites isnt typically a good practice because it wont really help that much.
I understand what your saying,but why are they unwilling to exchange with a low PR site if it is in your niche .If the site is SEO'ed right it could be a PR3 site in a few months time and you have your link on it good for both of you. Every site has to start at the bottom and work up
Some webmasters (me also) insisnts in the matter of pr because its still verry important. For example i did no link building for a website of mine, only some liks from high pr websites and i am gettin GREAT search engine rank potition. So high pr is still important.
I agree with you. But... People look at the benefits of a link exchange. When your site is new you just need to realize that you are getting the best deal of an exchange right now so less people are going to want to exchange because it benefits them less. Dont get caught up trying to exchange links now. Just build one way links yourself on directories, blogs, forums, ect. When you get a PR finally then it will be easier to exchange links.
I have been lucky in the fact that i have picked up 24 link exchanges the lowest being from PR2 most PR4 and they have all contacted me for the link exchange.I think the reason being as said above i have added plenty of good content. Just seems to me in the link exchange section on here they don't want to have a look at what your site has to offer other than PR.The sites that have asked to link to me have looked at the bigger picture