Models of google pagerank, or, is it smart to openly link based on pagerank?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

Unnatural linking patterns? What's unnatural about a PR4 site having a link trade with a PR4 site?

People who trade for PR tend not to care if the page they are trading with has any relevance to their own page.

I really wish Bill would stop pushing this topic. I love watching my competition spending all of their time tracking their PR while not concerning themselves over the fact that their pages themselves are shit and, even if they had a PR9, Google would still only send them crap for traffic.

[Halfdeck]

Same thing with buying high PR links. Why? Well, IMHO if you master a few other things and get high pagerank, you can pretty much place high for just about anything you want.

You sure can - especially if you're a big company with millions of bucks to play with. A Walmart-affiliated company skyrocketed to #1 in local UK results for "car insurance" by paid links alone in the span of just a few weeks (Why target UK results? Biggest piece of the pie for that term, according to Google Trends).

Inadequate paid link detection is arguably the biggest hole in Google's algorithm right now. Link exchanges are less of a problem for Google because they are much easier to detect than one way links that are bought and sold.

People who trade for PR tend not to care if the page they are trading with has any relevance to their own page.

Relevance is a big factor but if links are traded its still only one step above trading for PageRank. (Not saying trades are necessarily bad. You can trade up to TBPR 5 or so and then install a semi-sex related blog to pull mainstream/organic links into your domain to round out your link profile).

Linking to quality sites is also a weak strategy if the link is part of a trade. In fact, site quality in adult doesn't matter all that much in terms of search until we have people linking out freely. Unfortunately, affiliate sites linking to the competition freely just makes no business sense.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

People who trade for PR tend not to care if the page they are trading with has any relevance to their own page.

I guess that's like a motor oil page exchanging links with an exercise equipment page, a running shoe page and a viagra page, all with high PR wouldn't do any good because they're not relevant. I was just looking at the poll question and the answers and didn't see the correlation between having PR in a post title and unnatural linking patterns. I guess if someone is foolish enough to believe that trading links with any page that has high PR they're dumber than me . I don't know much at all but I do know that the pages that link to me have to be pages that are relevant to mine.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I love watching my competition spending all of their time tracking their PR while not concerning themselves over the fact that their pages themselves are shit...

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