Linking to PR 0 sites?

or sites w/o domain... is it bad?

[uhwebs]

I ask because I run a directory for Widgets, and once in a while get a site that is either PR0 or doesn't have its own domain name (is hosted on a free site). Should I turn down such link exchanges?

[martinibuster]

I think it's unwise to ask for recips when you have no incoming at all. Most sites that fit your profile who are sending me link requests are, upon inspection, low quality in terms of content, and remain low quality in terms of a link back months later. But everyone has to make a living and if you send enough link requests you'll get some, right?

But judge for yourself in terms of your threshold of quality.

[uhwebs]

My site is very high-quality... I just added a link directory to it a few days ago because I've had so many link requests from other Widget sites.

I guess my question is, will it hurt my site to do link exchanges with lower-quality sites?

[tigger]

with PR only updating quarterly I get loads of requests from PR0 sites, all I do is check they are within G's cache & so long as they are not doing anything black hat I link to them

[Crush]

yeah, cache is the key. People still requesting PR are in the stone age.

[neuron]

will it hurt my site to do link exchanges with lower-quality sites?

If there were an objective way for everyone to assess the quality of a site, and everyone agreed, and if no one would exchange links with sites of inferior quality, then there would be no link exchanges.

From a different perspective, my sites are always of the the best quality, and everyone else's sites are of inferior quality. Therefore I must exchange links with inferior sites.

[cabowabo]

Don't look at PR as the measure of quality. Look at site content, layout, etc. Look at traffic levels (use Alexa and MetricsMarket to approximate). Your first order of business is to generate traffic to your site, and if a link partner is getting zero traffic, you have zero chance for a click through.

Cheers,

CaboWabo