Reciprocal link pages

Theme linking or ...

[Istvan]

I noticed that on many sites which have decent PR, the resources page/links page is greyed out or is a PR0. When you judge to request a reciprocal link, how does Google see this nowadays? Is it based on just finding sites within your own theme, because there isn't any difference between a link page with a PR4/5/6 anymore.

How do you people link at this time, first to look what the PR is of the www.widgets.com main site, and then think what the PR might be of the linking page and then judge.. or do you base it solely on the theme structure?

Istvan

[fathom]

the resources page/links page is greyed out or is a PR0

I would say - Google does not see these pages any different than any other page.

There could actually be intentional internal processes at work here for greybar e.g. Meta Robot noindex, nofollow, or robots.txt disallowing crawlers to the page.

[a1call]

Hi,
I have a web directory site.
My take is that google has completely changed its pr system for subages.
Before the previous update I had a pr5 and every subpage would loose exactly 1pr per debt.
Example:
domain.com 5
domain.com/sub 4
domain.com/sub/sub 3
domain.com/sub/sub/sub 2
and so on.
this would happen before any crawl.
The above would hold true for all pages exept the ones with
special character codes such as "Espaņol"
which woulfd be gray untill crawled
dynamic pages would not mind special characters.
Now however the above rule does not hold true.
I think there is a major change in progress in all sorts of algos in google. What ever it is seems to be working.:)

[UK_Web_Guy]

I would agree with fathom

Also, with regards to pages with PR0 or greyed out - wait until this latest update settles before proper PR values settle.

What you describe is a trait of dominic and is a red herring