Do you base you link exchanges on PR?

[BootyCraze]

Im sick of seeing people asking for sites with a certain PR. Some of the best sites i know only have pr3 and IMO the links are worth hell of a lot more than some pr5 sites. Some pr0 sites are worth more than ranking sites.

Do you turn your nose up at a pr0?

[pokermonger]

I rarely even look at the PR. If I am considering links, either in or out, I am interested in the quality of the page. The only other factor about getting a link from a page is if it is indexed.

[Randy]

I never link to sites based on "what I get". I'll link to almost anything if I think it's really good content.

[uyur]

# Do not exchange links with just anyone. Study your link exchange partner’s website; check its backlinks, content, etc. Ask yourself: are the services your link partner offers complement your own? Will their visitors going to be interested in your services? Treat each link exchange as a strategic partnership, take your time and it will pay off, both with quality traffic and better search engine ranking.

# Forget about PageRank! PR is not important when deciding on link exchange partners. There are websites that have PR6 and twenty visitors per day and there are also websites that have much lower PageRank with a ton of traffic.

[ThePokerBank]

If there is a mention of PR in a link request, 99% of the time it is not a person/site that I would like to do a link exchange with.

[kingcobra]

Well there are PR exchanges (1+) and non PR exchanges. If it's a PR exchange then I need to get it back as well. If it's a no PR exchange I'll swap with just about anything that moves I like $100's but even the $1 bills add up if you have enough of them. I'm not going to just stick to the big bills because there's a lot of money I'd be turning down and I like all forms of money.

As for uyur's comments, there's not a big enough grin icon to use here dude that's all I'm going to say Nothing personal but you're misinformed here and I'd love to get into this more and see what sort of rationale you're using. Even Google will tell you that PR counts, and counts for a lot. As for being that particular, I'd love to hear why you think this is true, and of course back it up with real evidence not just wild speculation or worse, something that Google wants you to believe is true

[uyur]

Here are the real results within 4 months:

poker directory
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=poker+directory (5. position)
top poker
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=top+poker (5. position)
europe poker
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=europe+poker (9. position)
eu poker
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=eu+poker (4. position)
cdpoker.com
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cdpoker.com (5. position)
cd poker review
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cdpoker.com+review (8. position)
italian poker sites
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...an+poker+sites (3. position)
german poker sites
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=german+poker+sites (3. position)
spain poker sites
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=spain+poker+sites (4. position)

More and more....................

[kingcobra]

Well thanks for stepping up to the plate on this uyur. Not bad results. Some decent sized ones, not real big mind you but nice. Top poker, well that's the nice one here, and this goes to show you folks how important url keywords are by the way. Good job overall so far. Now getting back to our discussion, I'm not saying you can't do well especially in niche keywords like these with the limited strategy you use, or at least say you use, I'm saying that if this is the case you could do better by being more open minded.

I see you really like the directory submissions and I see some I want to submit to as well from that. There's not a heck of a lot of difference though between a quality directory site and a quality site which also has a quality directory. I'm not singling you out but it never ceases to amuse me when I see sites refusing off topic links but welcome directories with open arms.

What I'm really interested in though is where you got these ideas and if you try A and it works that doesn't mean B isn't better and maybe a lot better. From a guy who has done both it certainly has been for me and when I look at the big sites I see the same thing and that's what I really go by.

On the other hand your site returns 14K results on a site query on Google and I'm only at 5K so you've got a lot more than I do although I plan on catching up. This many links makes a big difference to your results and in spite of the talk about being extremely fussy, in terms of the links back, you're being way too modest here man

Keep us updated on your progress here and thanks again for the post.

[traveller]

I take this into account too, when doing a link exchange. Example: I started my personal blog in september 2007. In under 2 months the PR update came and I got a PR4 from zero. I was linked to by some older blogs whos owners loved my original and frequently updated content. I was seen as a good blogger in my country so they linked to me and recommended the project. I also reciprocated some links to other blogs, similar to mine.

Then, after the update I was BOMBED with requests from god knows what guys, who just opened a splog or any useless site and wanted to exchange links. Guess why? Because I had a PR4 blog. I don't link back to very new projects since I see so many of them get "sacked" after 2-3 months. I do link to blogs/sites I appreciate content wise and keep my exchanges to minimum. And sure, I do take PR into account since a good PR kinda says many positive things about a site. I know it's not a perfect tool since there are many bad sites with a good PR, but I coroborate this info with those based on content quality and even traffic and then I decide.

[The Poker Jerk]

It's all about the quality for me. If I am making a quality page, I am not going to give up links in exchange for shit