theBear - 4:49 pm on Jul 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

topr8,

Maybe because you are running a forum and do not want the forum members to be able to spam the s/e with signatures and don't dare to use other means to "hide" the links.

Maybe because you have additional navigation for visitor use that the s/e may consider as duplicate content due to urls being different dynamic content delivery has its downsides.

Maybe because the page the link goes to might be considered a keyword laden doorway page.

It really is getting well past the point of building a site for visitors, in doing that you will eventually walk into a "s/e gotcha" unless the site is very small.

Most of our newest site is off limits to the search engines, and it is a royal pain to keep track of.

Clint,

To answer your question, it isn't the PR 0 sites linking to you that you have to worry about.

It is _how_ any site links to you that you have to worry about.

Now if Google actually implements its inbound link counting and a sudden uptick in inbounds is then used to quality rank lower the target of the inbound links (as per the patent application) then there will be a major problem.

You can only control your end of the link, not the other end.