Reciprocal Partner Added More Links

.... from pages that redirect

[austtr]

I recently did a link swap between my site and the other person's Site A (PR7). That same person is now also linking to me from Site B. When I try to take a look at Site B it redirects to Site A.

I've never had a need to get involved with redirects so my knowledge of the issues is limited. However, knowing that redirects are sometimes associated with spamming, I'm concerned that I may have been placed in a "bad neighbourhood" and not have the experience to recognise it.

Site A seems perfectly legit. I have no link to Site B and have no control over where the owner links it or redirects it. Common sense would seem to indicate that there is nothing to worry about.

Am I missing something?

[martinibuster]

You might want to take a look at the site to see if they're cloaking site B with keywords then redirecting them to Site A. You may need to turn off your javascript to see it in action.

If you are using IE, go into tools>Internet Options>Security and then choose Custom Level. You'll be presented with a menu of options. Scroll down to Active Scripting and select disable.

Now navigate to site b and see what's going on. At best, it's just a duplicate website. At worst, it has a page of keywords in anchor text, and repetitive text.

Whether it will hurt you to link to them? We all have different thresholds of Funk. What smells funky to me might not smell so bad to you.

I prefer as close to no funk as possible when it comes to a link partner.

Anybody else have an opinion on this?

• At what point does a site get too funky to link to?

• How do you define a Funky link partner?

[Yidaki]

Is Site B listed at search engines? What about robots.txt at Site B? If it is listed or even made for the engines, i'd say it's too funky. I would drop the partnership then. Better safe than sorry.