link trades and where to place them

[Kush]

Originally posted by xxxjay
The whole cramming a bunch of links at the bottom of your page with the highest pr and reciping it to anothe site of equal PR is going to be the next thing google drops the penelty hammer on - I predict. I am in the process of putting my recip trades into paragraph form to avoid future problems.

I bet you anything that i am right about this. PR whore webmasters need to rethink what they are doing soon.

Hmm that's a really interesting prediction... and kind of a scary though too because so many webmasters use this method.

The "grouping a bunch of sites together at the bottom of the page" strategy is so widely used and accepted, I am having a hard time believing that it can bring about a penalty. It has plenty of honest, relevant uses too - besides just PR / link trades.

But again, like you said, it may be better "safe than sorry"
But then again, such a widespread, massive penalty seems like a bit of a stretch. I don't think google would do something this rash.

Plus if google goes with your prediction, the blog abuse will skyrocket - and it's already pretty bad. It will be interesting for sure to see what happens.