Tonnie <t.prasing@chello.nl> wrote in
news:3f340rF5okeeU1@individual.net:

> Paul H wrote:
>> www.somedomain.com emails me and asks for a reciprocal link.
>>
>> The index page at www.somedomain.com is PR6
>>
>> The links page (www.somedomain.com/links.htm) is PR3
>>
>> My Homepage and Links page are both PR4
>>
>> So if I link to his homepage and he links to mine, I am giving him
>> more than he is giving me....right?
>>
>> Have I got this one correct?
>>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Yes, correct. But if you have more links going out on your page it
> might even be less per link.
>

Paul also can't rely on it staying that way. The PR on both pages is
likely to change over the life of the link - maybe his links page is
borderline 3/4 and yours is borderline 4/3 - and they will swap places with
the next update - no way to tell.

Best is to look at the site, decide if it's useful and relevant to your
site visitors and likely to stick around for the long term: if it is, link
to it, if not, not. You can overanalyze this sort of thing.

It is also worth bearing in mind that in some markets, you could get some
really good quality visitors from that links page, regardless of the
PageRank issues.

Victoria
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