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?

Paul

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.



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Tonnie <t.prasing@chello.nl> wrote in
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> 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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On Thu, 19 May 2005 09:00:28 GMT, "Paul H" <nospam@nospam.com> 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?
>
>Paul

<Fozzi Bear>
Are the sites thematically related and if so by how much in the eyes
of the Google?
How many links to other sites do you each have from these pages?
How thematically related in turn are these sites?
Could they remotely be regarded as hubs or authority sites?
Mysterious are the ways of the SEO, young Link-Seeker.
</Fozzi Bear>

BB the Hut (notice how I keep it fresh by being topical?)




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"Big Bill" <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5nto8199kah25fif1vs8i9hk5ui3gokn6f@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 19 May 2005 09:00:28 GMT, "Paul H" <nospam@nospam.com> 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?
>>
>>Paul
>
> <Fozzi Bear>
> Are the sites thematically related and if so by how much in the eyes
> of the Google?
> How many links to other sites do you each have from these pages?
> How thematically related in turn are these sites?
> Could they remotely be regarded as hubs or authority sites?
> Mysterious are the ways of the SEO, young Link-Seeker.
> </Fozzi Bear>
>
> BB the Hut (notice how I keep it fresh by being topical?)

Yea but apart from the sanitation droids, bionic limbs, hyper-drive,
moisture vaporators, galactic order, abolisment of slavery, star charts, the
compact and efficient central government and interplanetary free trade, what
has the Google Empire ever done for us?

;O)

P.S. Thanks for the pointers.