Dodgy linkpages

which links do you reciprocate

[Dreyax]

Hi guys
This is my first time in this forum so sorry if this issue has been raised and covered before

What do you think of links from dynamic pages (?) or from pages that have funny things in the URL such as ##? I have read somewhere that Google does not follow links from dynamic pages, is it true? would you accept to reciprocate if asked for a link exchange?

I see a lot of well ranked websites that have linkpages directly linked from the home page but the home page PR is 5 or 6 and the linkpage PR is 0. It is not a matter of linkpages being newly designed, they have been there for a long time but no PR. Again, would you accept to exchange links with such websites? Giving them a link from your well ranked page and getting a link from a linkpage with 0/10 PR? Knowing that their linkpage PR will never improve?

Thank you for your help
Dreyax

[birdstuff]

If my link is on a page that is showing toolbar PR, I consider it to be a valid link regardless of the URL of the page.

If a links page is PR0 with no realistic explanation I don't reciprocate the link.

[stinkfoot]

Hmm ... sounds about right to me .. lots of webmasters will put up isolated pages with "YOUR LINK IS UP!" emails .. just not worth while linking back imo either.

Having said that .. googles games with PR mean it is very hard indeed to find out what is a quality link and what is rubbish.

The recent method I have been using is to use site:http://www.sitethatisofferinglink.html york link text here ... and see if it has been indexed that way

[Rosalind]

Webmasters can block the link page using robots.txt, and using redirect scripts will cause it to not show up as a link. If it's a link on a page with hundreds of others, and the page also happens to be titled "Links" or "Resources" it could be worth very little. With the link: command being less useful than usual, the best measure of which ones are useful is the cache and a bit of guesswork.