When link exchanging, do you always go by PR?? I am finding that most people do so. Most people don't care to exchange with a PR0 site if their own site is PR3+, right?? Why is this? Why is PR more important than how your search engine is placed. One of my sites(jokes site) gets about 200 - 500 uniques daily to begin(about 2 1/2 months old). Out of those, 50 - 200 are from top search engines and smaller engines. I'm finding that noone really cares about that. They are just simply not interested in a PR0 site no matter what. And my site is postioned well for a handful of keywords. It kinda sucks when you find the perfect site(your specific niche) to link exchange with and they turn you down because your site is not popular enough yet. It's one big popularity contest it seems. Guess it's what most site owners must go thru at the beginning stages of running a website that you want to be successful online.
Yeah, definitely lots of owners go through this, in fact probably every one of them in the beginning. Then you learn how to generate a bit of PR without the link exchanges or find exchanges that'll go through anyway... then you'll have a bit of PR when you get out of the sandbox and Google updates its PR rankings. Then you can get into more link exchanges, and get more PR, and the success cycle continues. Those that make it stick to it.
the reason which i feel is they did alot of hard work to get PR so if they exchagne links with PR0 .. their site PR might affect and PR0 site will get good PR... 2nd thing is if you exchange link with Higher PR your PR also increases which *SOMETIMES* helps in SERPs also..
Exchanging links with pages that have higher PR than your own should increase your PR - whether it's visible or not is another story. Llinking to a lower PR page will not lessen your PR (unless you link to a banned site - it may affect you). Basically, your PR is affected by the PR of the pages linking to you, not the pages you link to. sandyfeet - you should see if you can buy a long term one way link on some of the sites that won't exchange links with you. Many times you can get an inexpensive long term one-way link. It's not uncommon for webmasters to focus solely on your PR when you request a link exchange. Many have no idea of what else to look for, but you shouldn't let their ignorance discourage you. Check some of the other links on a page before suggesting a link exchange - if you find a few clean pages listed with no PR the chances are good that they'll consider your link exchange. You can also offer something a little more enticing than a reciprocated link from a PR0 page - offer something more prominent until your PR is updated. Many will accept a highly visible link if you're just starting out.
Il always exchange links with PR0 sites, but only if they are cached in Google. I figure if they are exchanging links they arent going to be a PR0 for ever and it can only help my site.
I think my PR might rise a tiny bit in the next update...whenever that may be. I do have a pr2 site pointing to mine and a pr3 directory page with my link on it. Might help a little, right? Some of the other directories I submitted to might also have PR....not really sure. Plus some of the sites I have already exchanged with might get PR too. Will keep at it! Eventually I'll get my PR up.
It's the other way around. How can you control the pages that link to you? Since you can't, you're not penalized for it by Google. --Anthony
Anthony - reread my post. It has nothing to do with being penalized and everything to do with Pagerank which is determined by the pages that link to you.
It all depends. I do exchange with PR0 site or PR0 page. But when I do so, I usually try to see the potential of the growth of the site.
My site is PR3 and not all sites I request a link from accept the exchange. Many of the times I think it is because they have a higher pr, 5+. Here is what I am doing. I keep a spreadsheet in alphabetical order of all the sites I have requested exchanges with, but have not accepted. I include the date the exchange was sent as well. As my PR increases over time, I may request an exchange again at a later date. It is not like I am going to bug them everyday or anything like that, but I may try again in a year or so once my pr has increased. Who knows, they may accept at that time. I just think it is good to have a master list of possible link partners, relevant to my site, since it does take awhile to find potential partners when you are doing it manually like I am. Just curious, does anyone have any thoughts on this?
A link is a link. PR is just one metric you should use to determine the value of a link. A more valuable metric would be how much traffic can a link bring to your site. For example, if you trackback link to a businessweek blog you might be able to pull in a few hundred visitors. If your site has good advertising, that might make you a couple dollars in revenue. The link still counts to the search engines and you will get a nice link benefit when the PR updates on businessweek's site. So, the final result would be a potential PR4-6 link at a later date, 200-400 new visitors to your site, and increased ad revenue from the new visitors. That to me sounds like a more profitable strategy than just hunting for links with high PR because the real goal should be how much traffic and profit you can bring in from your site and the search engines aren't the only sources of traffic/profit.
If the partner site is on topic I usually don't care much about PR. If the site is off topic, I am selecting more carefully.