What's wrong with links with? in url

[silverbytes]

Is there anything wrong with link partners linking to you from an url like this
http://www.example.com/?category388

Page has good pr...

Feedback please?

[edited by: jatar_k at 4:49 am (utc) on July 20, 2005]
[edit reason] examplified [/edit]

[silverbytes]

Do you actually trade links with that kind of websites?

[Crush]

talking to yourself man. Get a grip!

[jatar_k]

I don't have any problems with that method

[silverbytes]

I expect jatar be real so I don't have to keep talking to myself ;)

Thanks jatar. So you are actually exchanging links with that kind of sites? Are those real PR pass? Does anybody knows?

[jatar_k]

>> real PR pass

I don't really care that often, extra links are good. Especially related sites or busy sites so I can get a little more traffic. If the link has no value than the PR it may be passing, then quit wasting time with PR, get links with value, that goes beyond just PR.

and yes, I'm as real as they come ;)

[martinibuster]

I have a hard time with a link partner who is doing that. They're doing it for a reason, and it's generally not just to track outbound clicks.

If a webmaster is running outbounds through a cgi-bin to stop passing PR, then that is a signal to me that this webmaster may be up to other SEO tactics I may not want my site associated with. Think of that as a link partner quality signal.

Some SEO'd sites are run by people with only half a clue to what they're doing, or worse, they are knowingly aggressive. A person who runs a site in that manner may end up in a bad neighborhood- with your site unhappily linking to them.

There are different levels of linking that we do, some riskier than others. One size doesn't fit all. If you care about the quality of link partners, then someone who is heavy into SEO is less desirable as a partner than say a mom and pop who is just selling a couple widgets online to supplement their brick and mortar income.

I'm not saying that a heavily SEO'd website is undesirable, just less desirable. But an SEO who is aggressively hoarding PR is someone to be wary of because there might be more going on behind the scenes.

My concern is not about the lack of PR transfer, but the character of the person who would do that, and their worthiness as a link partner.

[Crush]

if it is a?redirect then never exchange. If it is a? link that has been cached then always.

[stinkfoot]

Found after looking it seems there is no cache from some of these type of pages.

How long has this bug been around? I have only just started to notice it over the last month r so.

Seems like a typical blackhat webmaster trick to me.

Tis a shame we arnt all good guys but there we have it.

[Crush]

new google toolbar does not display estimated pr anymore so the days of trickery are gone. Damn it

[sugarrae]

>>>I have a hard time with a link partner

Bingo. I'll take a link from any other site with traffic, but an eye for an eye for exchanges. I'd take a link that was a redirect. I'd tell a link "partner" who wanted to redirect to me where he could go. ;)

>>>Seems like a typical blackhat webmaster trick to me

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