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Originally Posted by brassmonkey
pr is gone
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True but I think that good back-links coming into a site help with serps, and when they are abc or abcd that can't be seen as a quid pro quo, then Google doesn't seem to be able to track and penalize those trades.
I like the site because it allows me to trade with same niche sites. There are some issues with the reporting numbers, as you said PR is no longer used, but MR/DA/PA seem to lag, in fact I've had pages up for almost a month and they haven't been updated on anything but the incoming and outgoing links on my pages.
The site is just part of the process, but it helps to find similar sites, you can see if they have low incoming/outgoing links, then do your research on the domain and make sure it's a domain you want a link from. I've found more good trading partners versus domains with just link farms, and then there is always the decline button and the block user button which helps weed out the people you don't want to deal with any more
And of course it let's me know if a trade has been taken down or changed which is nice to have alerts keep me up on trades!