I don't think all link trades are black hat at all. If you are trading with sites in a related niche you are giving the surfer more choices. If you take a trade from a gay site just because it has high PR and send it to a straight babe site I think that is black hat.

Jonny, most people in the adult industry don't think so either, but Google isn't built around our fantasies.

I'm only asking here because I want to know more, but how is it against Google guidelines? The only mention of link trades at Google's Webmaster Help Center is this:

"Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links. "

I find it hard to believe that mentioning PR in a post title would be considered a link scheme.

Nobody is claiming that using "PR" in a post title is a scheme. It's a marketing tactic designed to attract more trades. At the same time, you are leaving traces on the web that helps Google identify your site as a participant in a link pop manipulation scheme.

The point isn't about whether link trading is good or bad. It's about link trading like Sam Fisher.

To the operators: If you feel this is spam then please mark it as such, but this very post by Allfetish was the reason I wrote this script:

http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=40687

Which will allow you to do precisely what Allfetish suggested in a very easy way.

oke i am gonna tell something here, they said to me, if you going to make sites, use several hostings and all differnt ips,never use the same niche on the same hosting, unless its an different ip, always trade (your own sites between different hostings, on differernt ip) even google or other ses can find out now that the different hostong issue is owned by the same person, so thats the first part, the other part...i wont tell:D reason because it realy fucking works, alot of googe or other shit is all bullshit stuf, stuff to scare people away, if i can manage to get an new domain making good sales in 3 months with out cheating or blackhat ( and believe me, i am not the person to make 1000s of sites to do all) then all can, but i had to find out myself, so you all have to do the same, now i m not talking about golden stuff here, i only wanna say its possible:) and yes pr ranking has to do withiit

pat on the back...
 

encore....|deadhorse

I can hear the guys at Google now..."shhh...those porn guys will hear us...wait till they find out the PageRank system is just a smoke screen for all of the algo changes we have been making every 24 hours...."

LOL