fathom - 9:49 pm on Aug 29, 2002 (gmt 0)

I believe my thought process at the time was...

PR is less of a concern and managing visitors is more.

You have a site, you want visitors to visit your site, I find it under productive to have a links page (with nothing but links) indexed in Google where a person can find and click through to you... but then immediately click on a link and go to a new site without actually visiting your site.

It really has nothing to do with "PR hoarding" but more to the point site and content management.

With reciprocal links that I have requested or been ask to provide I add (if appropriate) to the precise page that amplifies my information and asked the same from them.

Generally this means that all web pages of my sites are opened for external links and the sites receiving these links get more PR since there is only 1 or maybe 2 links per page as opposed to shared PR with 50 other sites.

All pages that act only as link pages (without any other quality content beyond the LINKS) are noindex, nofollow. In general, these are links to sites that do not or can not provide a backlink but are considered authorities on the subject. (NASA, JPL, USGS, NOAA, etc.)

In addition, from an internal view, a page with 50 links on it... where no one clicks on (half) over 2 years, has no value, not to you, not to the receiving site, and obviously not to your visitors.