The SEO of Link Lists

[CaptainJSparrow]

Along the lines of what UW was alluding to when he started this thread, he mentioned the "bad neighborhood" factor and also said:

My suggestion would be to return to the days of expiring links.

I was reading up on SEO tonight and came across this article:

http://wpmu.org/improve-your-seo-by-...-links-plugin/

his article linked to this page from Google:

http://support.google.com/webmasters...n&answer=35769

where they say that they "we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the "Quality Guidelines," which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise impacted by an algorithmic or manual spam action."

One of Google's bullet points is to "Check for broken links..."

Alot of free site builders have tons of old pages with broken links such as:

http://www.pynio.com/free_porn/matur.../st/index.html

that have links to dead sites, redirected pages, and parked pages.

All of those old pages such as the one above have to be hurting the hubs, such as pynio, in their SEO efforts.

UW's suggestion of returning to the days of expiring links would suggest that Webmasters kill those old pages that have no page rank and are more than likely considered "bad neighborhoods' by Google.