How traffic is considered in link exchange

The weigh of alexa data and search engines consdieration

[silverbytes]

I'd like to hear about your experiences on how traffic of link partners influence your decision to exchange links.

A pr 0 page proposed to exchange links with our site. The argument was they have 5 times more traffic than us according Alexa.

Does that help in any way to us?
We don't expect a single visitor from link partners sites. Most of them though closes theme related are on links directories where nobody clicks. They have some pr but we don't get clicks. So the fact the link partner site has traffic is not big deal to me.

But I wonder if search engines care about that, and consider high traffic sites more powerfull and thus those inbound links are good...

Judging for the pr assingned I don't think so.

What do you know about it?

[decaff]

What?
"We don't expect a single visitor from link partners sites..."

The whole basis of links is traffic...if you say that you don't expect a single visitor then I hope you don't mean the spiders as well..?

If a link doesn't deliver actual traffic...I won't waste any of my time working to acquire this link...

I want traffic from the link relationships, FIRST, then I worry about what the search engines will think ... AND...I never consider Alexa data when looking at links...

I look at the site overall...and all the links I can find pointing to this site...I want to see the whole structure of the business relationships...

[silverbytes]

My experience is traffic coming from link partners is 2% and coming from search engines 98%, so I care about search engines first.
The question points to how search engines consider the amount of traffic in order to concede importance and weight to those inbound links.

How many traffic do you receive from link partners in directories like www.yourlinkpartner.com/resources/europe/links/002.asp

?

[sugarrae]

Stop linking based on the green bar and use your head to evaluate sites. If the site is quality, will be useful to your visitors and can bring you targeted traffic, who cares if it helps your engine ranks. It won't hurt your ranks if it is a qualiy site and the foot traffic will be gravy. Links are being thought of too much as solely a engine prop up and not as the quality traffic driving sources they can be at many times.

[silverbytes]

who cares if it helps your engine ranks

Me.

Since only 2% of traffic in my case comes from it, I care and based on my experience wasting my time in other exchanges doesn't produce better results than that...