Link question

is this link any good?

[Small Website Guy]

Some guy gave me a link in which the href part of the <a> tag looks like this:

h*tp://www.someguy.com/webpage.cfm?linkpage=www.mydomain.com

When you click on the link, it shows HIS site's menu at the top with my site below it.

And this same guy had the nerve to suggest that I link to him with a while bunch of keywords stuffed in the anchor text which isn't even the name of his site.

Is this link of any use to me at all, or should I send him an Email back telling him to go take his bogus link somewhere else?

[edited by: Small_Website_Guy at 5:26 pm (utc) on Nov. 12, 2003]

[Nick_W]

Why bother dignifying it with a response?

...Next!

Nick

[Small Website Guy]

This stuff makes me mad because I'm giving people honest links, with just their url in the href tag, and it doesn't even open in a new browswer window. I figure that webmasters in the know will see that my links give them some PageRank.

Trying to keep people from leaving your site, and hoarding the PageRank is just "penny wise pound foolish" because no one clicks on those links in links pages anyway, and you need to give up some PageRank in the form of a quality link if you want someone else to exchange links with you.

[nakulgoyal]

Always prefer to stay away from links like these if you ant pagerank. However, if you want traffic, sites like these might sometimes get you a lot of traffic.

[stinky]

i did a link exchange with a guy and he linked to me like this [mysite.com...] does it make a difference if there is no "www" in my url? Or should i tell him to add the "www"