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I am slowly building a links directory on my site. Sometimes people want to exchange links with me, but their reciprocal link to me is along the lines of:
www.theirsite.com?redirect=www.mysite.com
rather than just linking to www.mysite.com
Should I accept such links? It seems like an underhand tactic. I feel a little miffed that I might not get the PR credit for the link.
My thoughts so far are, if I think I will get quality visitors from their site fair enough, but otherwise I don't want to waste my PR linking to them without a proper link back.
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
No PR benefit, and downwards of one human referral per year.
And they will get PR benefit from you, despite only getting downwards of one human referral per year.
Don't be insulted about the human referrals bit; however good your site, how many of your visitors use your 'link directory' - bearing in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of 'link directories' all over the web, sharing a grand total of three users per year?
Concentrate on the PR benefit;
(a) you've been shafted good and proper
(b) And probably linked to a bad neighborhood.
Delete the link directory, and put your effort into site building; much better for PR, much better for visitors. And much, much, much safer.
Thanks for the quick reply. Yep you have pretty much confirmed my thoughts....
Cheers.
Ben
