I've Pulled Hardlink Trades - You May Want To Read This

[pornhitzman]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

Certainly not! Dump them ASAP. You do NOT want to be associated with such scum.

Here are the golden rules of link trading, which you should all live by:
1. Never trade links with any page which doesn't appear in the first five results of a site:domain.com search.

2. Avoid link trades with domains which have a poor consonant:vowel ratio. Less than 3:1 is considered a questionable ratio by Google.

3. Domains with more than two consecutive vowels are improperly discriminated against by Google. (They are working on this, but for now, you shouldn't trade links with such domains.)

4. Google hates foreigners, and music by the band Foreigner, with the exception of Hot Blooded, though I don't know how that will help.

5. Any site with any page listed as supplemental is to be avoided, EVEN IF they appear to rank very well for quality search terms.

6. Avoid trading links with sites with a lower Alexa ranking than you.

7. Always trade links with domains whose index Page Rank, when added to yours, will be a combined total of "10." (Pay very close attention to this rule and verify the consistency of your trades' PR weekly.)

You should know that supplemental pages do not rank at all for quality search terms or hardly any terms at all. That's because they are in the supplemental index and not the main index.