LINK to bad website or irrelevant website question

LINK to bad (even got banned by google)website or irrelevant website will maybe let your site got banned.but will it punish your rank in serp?

 

yes, one day i get a 400 visitors from organic results on google. next day post a link to usercash and puff. visitors gone!

 

Linking to irrelevant pages may not hurt your rankings but linking to blacklisted sites will not do your SERP any good..

 

yes , more, what i want to know is: ifLINK to bad (even got banned by google)website or irrelevant website will punish your pr value? I have some high pr site and sell links.so if link to low site or irrelevant site will make my site pr low? if yes ,i will consider if i link to these kind of site.

 

If you link to a site which is obviously not going to serve any purpose for your visitors, why should Google think your site worthy enough to send visitors to ?????

 

Linking w/ bad nieghborhood has different effect on our site's...

But as an SEO why you link w/ site's that has not relevant on your site...

 

so google will degrade my pr,right?

 

that's right, your pr and serp will get degraded! it is always suggested to stay on a category and keep posting links etc which are relevant to that category only

 

even I dint know that Link to Black Listed sites can cause terrible problems
thanks for the heads up guys!

 

Well what if you use nofollow? That is supposed to let Google bot know that you don't vouche for that site and that the link might just be a paid advertisement.

 

Using nofollow is a good idea if people need to go to that site.

I don't have hard evidence that PR is decreased for linking to bad neighborhoods, but it would make a lot of sense. Links are part of your page's content and if they're bad links - your page has bad content.

It seems to me than on last PR update a lot of smaller sites selling links on TLA lost 1 PR point (content rich sites, like newspapers, didn't).