Jane_Doe - 2:56 am on Aug 25, 2002 (gmt 0)

I have a site that gets about 900 pageviews a day with the main pages having a Pagerank of 5 in Google, possibly 6 in the next update when my latest reciprocal link efforts take effect. The links page for this site is a PR4. Most of the pages are already in the top ten or twenty SERPs in Google for their keywords.

Somebody with a brand new site (no search engine listings, no inbound links in any search engine, gray toolbar) just sent an email request to me to do a reciprocal link. It's a very professional looking, well done site on a similar theme as mine. Since the webmaster is reciprocal link savvy, I suspect the site will eventually be well placed.

My questions are:

Would you link to this site now if you were me in the hopes that it will soon be link-worthy? (I usually don't link to sites lower than PR3, but since this site looks very professional I thought maybe I'd make an exception.)

If not, do you have a polite way of pointing out that it would not be an equitable link exchange at the present time and would prefer to defer the request until the site has some traffic and placement?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.