What would you offer in return for a PR7 link to your site from someones index page? What would you recommend to take into account for this decision?
Out going links on the page is important. So are there incoming links. If the PR7 is acheived by a few high PR incoming links; I wouldn't consider nearly as valuable as a PR7 site whose PR is acheived thru a ton of lower PR sites. If the site is related to yours is important as well.
hmm... ok.. so there are about 30 links on this page, most are to sub pages. about 5 going out to other websites. And the link: command ing google for this page returns: Over 9,000 pages.. So this is good? What would be a reasonable reciprocal link(s)? How many? From what PR? (The site is related to mine..)
over 9000 pages using the link: command and only a PR 7? I have a PR7 site and it only has 2,600 backlinks using the google command. I know the link: command isn't 100% accurate, but shouldn't 9,000 pages be at least a PR 8? hmmm... ok whatever with that backlink (link: ) command. I just looked at a PR 9 page and it has 18,000 pages returned. Then I looked at a PR 8 page and it has 35,000 pages returned. My PR 7 site has 2,600 pages returned. So I guess that's not a good gauge. Or I guess that the PR 9 site has more high PR rank pages linking to it than the PR 8 does with it's 35,000 pages linking to it. My bad.
also important is the # of sites link to that page. You can have a large # of backlinks from a few sites or even one site.
I follow, but now back to the original question what would you offer in return for a link from such a PR7? Under what conditions? I mean is this worth a few PR3, a sitewide backlink with (100,500,1000?) links, ten PR5? Or what would you be willing to offer?