I was wondering if participating in link exchange with related niche sites some sites place your link on a link categorized page. For example lots of links but related. Would that be a bad if you participated in link exchange with that site and if so wouldn't google consider that page to be a link farm? Yes the page has a PR rating. For my site would it be vise to create link page or to place link site names in my index page?
If you make link page make sure to name it directory or something related to topic of links on that page. This way it does not seem like links page.
If the sites are related to yours and you are exchanging links as a means to build traffic for yourself and as a benefit to the end user (websurfer) then you should not have a problem. If you are willing to exchange with anyone willing to exchange without a care or thought to quality or relevance, then you are pushing the bad neighbor policies and are creating a link farm.
No i only meen related sites that i would filter through to allow their url on my site. For example giving your link to this page would be bad or good even though its PR3 http://www.strengthcats.com/coollinks.htm
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