Why are people still so foolish that they mention PR in their trade request titles?

[jonnydoe]

Originally Posted by Halfdeck

People should realize by now that linktrading is a black hat tactic. In that respect I agree with Bill. If you're breaking a law, it's not smart to leave your fingerprints all over the crime scene.

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.

[Halfdeck]

I don't think all link trades are black hat at all.

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

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Bill

Don't you realize that trading links based on PR is specifically against google guidelines, and is one of the likely sources of the current collapse of adult sites in google.

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.

[Halfdeck]

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.

[MightyMidget]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

Well we were all mostly idiots really. For our linkslists we should have made many (like a few dozen) recips for each category and then had a script give a different one at random to be used (or something like this).

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.

[stuveltje]

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 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

[Neo]

encore....

Originally Posted by Bill

Haven't you realized that this is dangerous, and invites trouble?

Don't you realize that by doing so you show you are three years obsolete?

Do you think people are SO FUCKING DUMB that they can't visit your URL and check their PR for themselves, if they care?

Don't you realize that trading links based on PR is specifically against google guidelines, and is one of the likely sources of the current collapse of adult sites in google.

Goddammit, get fucking educated!

[dapanther99]

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