Linked to a Pr6 site now it's a PR0

How bad?

[coosblues]

I had recently been exchanging a link with a pr6 site. I went and checked the site since the last update and now found the site to be a pr0. I immediately dropped my link to the site but I'm not sure if I did it before the last deep crawl. What implications can I expect? Thanks

[Jeffry]

I dropped all my outbound links from all my web sites since I have been penalized(PRO) for linking to a PRO site.

If you really need to link to another site you better protect that link from being indexed.

Jeffry

[JudgeJeffries]

Jeffry.
Duid you remain PRO or was it reinstated back to original levels, if so how long did it take

[heini]

Really can't say coosblues. Personally I wouldn't worry too much for now. My take is Google doesn't have their filters set to penalize any site linking to one PR0 site. I think it needs a bit more to get the boot.

[ruserious]

We should also not forget: A PR0 is often times caused by the lack of relevant backlinks, in most cases it has nothing to do with a penalty. Does Google show backlinks to your page (you will find only PR3+ pages)? Search for pages in alltheweb that link to you AND then check those pages in the google-cache if the cached copy at google also contained the link. PR is calculated on an index per index basis. So only the cached pages' links to you count.

I agree with heini that it takes a lot more to get a penalty IMHO. We had this discussion before, and the whole web would be PR0 in no time if a single outbound link would suffice to be penalised.

[coosblues]

Thanks everyone for your answers. The more I read the more I realized that only one link to a pr0 site should not invoke a penalty - or much of one. I read a thread that made me feel better basically saying that the entire web would be pr0'd if such a penality was invoked - i.e. Let's say I was to get a pr0 for one bad link - then the next update "in theory" everyone linking to me would recieve the Pr0 and so on down the line. I also used a capture program to take a screenshot of the offending site - then I zoomed in on the toolbar. There were two little green dots on the site so from that I made the assumption that the site did have a bit of pr - just not enough to reach a PR1. I know in the future I'll be much more careful in my linking. I suggest to everyone that they check the potential new link partners backlinks. This particular site I found was very heavily spammed with links all basically originating from sub-domains from the same website plus links which the webmaster had made using free servers. This site had maintained a pr5 for over a year, then went to pr6 about a month ago and soon after the last update was pr0'd - or very close. I'll keep my fingers crossed that one bad link won't affect my site to drastically. This just points out another problem with linking in my eyes. Now I have to check each link partner's background and also recheck them a day or so afer the update to make sure they really are quality links. Googleguy - I know you are out there SOMEWHERE. Can you give me hopefully a positive sign that this one bad link won't hurt my site terribly. I NEED SOME SLEEP :). Thanks again to everyone that answered.