Trading links with penalized sites??
 

Ok, this has been bugging me for a few days, so lets see what everyone thinks. I think linking to a lot of penalized sites is bad for my page (Google wise). Do you agree?

Now, the hard thing is deciding who I think is penalized by Google. Here are the 2 scenarios that are currently bugging me. Please keep in mind that I do not care about PR for PR sake when trading. I only mention PR in the following examples as ways to possibly determine a penalty.

If a site/page has been online for over a year, shouldn't it have some PR? I am coming across 2 things in checking over my link trades that bother me.

1) Site/page online for over a year (some online for 3 or 4 years)...no PR, but site is cached. Do you think this is indicative of a penalty? Would you trade with a site like this? Would you delete a trade with a site like this?

2) Site/page online for over a year....no PR, and NO CACHE of the page. Do you think this is indicative of a penalty? Would you trade with a site like this? Would you delete a trade with a site like this?

Thoughts please....

No doubt, thought that was a given. I mean, haven't they come out and said as much?

That was a "baseline" question. It helps to evaluate the answers of other posters.:winkwink:

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Guess I should have included Juicy, drama, herpes, and shaving in my thread title.

I wouldn't even bother trading with PR0 sites, unless the site is of really high quality and relevant to your niche...

If it's not a good type in domain name then to
me it would look like they arent even trying.

If their not trying then what benifit do you get
for linking to them?

And if you already have pr why not trade with
other sites with pr and and up to parr?

I traded links with these sites a long time ago. Guess I am looking for a couple of things here.
Do other people think that those things are indicative of a penalty?
Do people think I would be justified in pulling link trades to those types of sites?

Domains can exist for a long time with no real PR. Without incoming links, etc, pages are just dead ends. Google doesn't give PR to dead ends.

Its not the PR that brings you money. Surfers do.

If someone works a site just a little, it should get some PR. But, if they are not working the site, why should I honor the trade?

ummmm.....did you read the thread????????:error

Yes I did, and what use is PR if trade-traffic converts better? :error

If you read the thread, you would have noticed I said I didn't give a shit about PR. I said the ONLY reason I brought it up was to possibly use it to determine a penalty in Google. Sorry if you don't understand.

A site can be online for over a year and not cached if there's no inbound links so penalty or not linking to it isn't going to help ya.

Most reciprocal links these days are either a penalty or of no SE value.
Traffic is a different story obviously.

Well, I am confused now about reading the thread, because now you say you didn't give a shit about PR, and in your first post above, you say you DO give a shit about PR. Make up your mind :1orglaugh

Anyway, if you care about penalty, then you care about PR too. Its connected :)

These are sites that the owner has "supposedly" worked. It has inbound links.


That wasn't my question. I have already stated that I have had these trades for a very long time.....some for years. This is not a question of whether or not those trades are valuable at this point.

Sorry you are confused so easily. In my first post, I said I DO NOT give a shit about PR.

No, it is not. Not for the purpose I have mentioned.

In todays search engine climate all of those "trades" should be deleted. That was my point.

You say you do not care about PR (= do give a shit about PR) :winkwink:

But, to answer you question about trade/no-trade; As I said, its the surfers that brings you money, not Google. A PR0 site can still send traffic that would exceed your "penalty" from Google. Higher PR only means you get crawled more often, but in the end its who (not how many) visiting your site and what you put on it that matters in your bank account.
And btw, if its not even listed on Google, well it must have some traffic from somewhere, otherwise trading is pointless. :)