A linking question

Is there any point linking to a page with no PR

[Judy_L]

I have a PR4 site and have had lots of requests for reciprocal links lately. After I have forwarded my link details I am told that my link can be found on a particular links page. The site may be a PR4 but the links page has no PR therefore I am assuming that it is a hidden page not crawled by any spiders. Do they think I'm stupid or am I missing something here?

[webdude]

First of all, I would exchange links with the site if it was a value to your visitors. Bottom Line. PR should have nothing to do with it.

Second, it has been a long time since PR has been updated. You really don't know what the PR is of the page you are linking to.

Case in point...

I recently changed the name of my links page on one of my sites. The site ranks #1 for a bunch of highly competative keywords. I haven't solicited links on this site for the past 2 years because, quite frankly, I don't have to. Of course when I changed the name of the page, the green bar went to grey for a week or so, and then to white. No pr! This was expected, but I didn't care. The site still returns good.

I still get requests from other sites for a link exchange on this site, usually about 2 or 3 a week. I'll check their site, and if it looks good, why not... I'll link. But I got this one guy who wanted to link (he contacted me) I checked his site and said okay, let's do it, but after he checked my links page with a PR of 0, he wouldn't go for it. I call that stupid.

Do not place so much import on that silly green bar. It is inaccurate and causes nothing but headaches.

Just my 2 cents

This is from another of my posts...

[mack]

webdudemakes a very nice point.

The primary reason for linking anywhere should be because it is of use to your visitors. PR should come a long way down the list.

Another issue that is starting to get very confusing recently is that we really have no way of knowing the PR of a webpage. Toolbar PR hasn't been updates for close on 4 months. We can be pretty sure that Googles internal PR (used in the algo) has changed several times in this period.

Mack.

[webdude]

Agreed. There has even been posts on maybe the PR never getting updated again. That would blow a lotta people away. No PR! I really try not to look at that green bar. I think I have been better off for it. Google at some point may take it off their toolbar. It really means nothing at this point and there has been a lot of scuttlebut about selling high PR links, etc, etc. Might be a way of Google improving the SERPs. Not so much emphasise on that darn bar and more on quality links.

[Bonusbana]

Im beginning to enjoy the PR0 trend. A 2 months old site of mine has over 1800 backlinks and really good serp positions, wich by the way got even better this weekend. Still PR0. That should scare away some of the lame link requesters hunting me down for links.

If google decides to take away public PR for good, I would be glad. At least 50% of the results I get in google for some search terms are base on spammy sites who made high serp position using high PR links with anchor keywords. Its so obvious and annoying, and without a public PR that would be much harder.

[mack]

I think Google realize that a lot of the spammy serps are their own making. Making live PR available was asking for it to be abused in some way.

Mack.