Advice on Link Exchanges

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It looks like someone unstickied that thread.

Now it is again sticky as it is valuable to all people who do link exchanges

You would be better of getting a PR0 link in your subject then a PR10 in a completely separately subject.

I feel like I am playing devil's advocate, as I am usually the one telling people not to worry too much about pageRank, but don't you think this is a bit of an exaggeration?

If I could get a link from http://www.adobe.com/ for any site I'm working on, that would be worht more than dozens of links from almost disconnected sites, regardless of how relevant.

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If I could get a link from http://www.adobe.com/ for any site I'm working on, that would be worht more than dozens of links from almost disconnected sites, regardless of how relevant.

maybe right, but just in case your website is not about the content from adobe but about "medicines", I'm sure that the number of visitors from the adobe website will be bigger then from the google SERP's

If I could get a link from http://www.adobe.com/ for any site I'm working on, that would be worht more than dozens of links from almost disconnected sites, regardless of how relevant.

But its not PR at work here but brand, you see the reason for getting a link is visitor number based on trust nothing to do with PR, I can get a PR 7 site without an issue and sell you links, but it will not increase your visitor numbers! getting a link from adobe will increase your visitor numbers simply because people use it. But the point stands if adobe was dropped from Google index tongiht and given a PR 0 it would be worth more then PR 10 link with no traffic and no relativity.

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I think pagerank is still the strongest debate among webmasters

There is a very strong fact that can lead us to the truth, the SERPs. As anyone can see there are many times low pr sites in the top results. That means that pagerank has nothing to do with relevancy.

Of course there are many pros on having high pagerank. For instance sites with high pagerank are getting indexed faster. Also you can easily sell/trade links when you have high pagerank and this is mostly because the average webmaster is "chasing" high pagerank.

The bottom line is that pagerank is a always a good sign, but it is not a success factor.

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with a link from a PR7 or 8 site, a new site can get indexed within 24 hours.

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with a link from a PR7 or 8 site, a new site can get indexed within 24 hours.

not only with this high PR values, a well structured PR4 or 5 website will do the same...

Again its nothing to do with PR, you get a link to a high PR directory you will find no increase in crawling time, however you link to a high volume mid PR site that regularly changes its content, and you will be crawled quickly.

The crawl speed is determined by the number of visitors to the content update speed, PR once again has nothing to do with it! Again a high volume quickly changing site that links to you will increase the speed your site is crawled the first time irrelevant of PR it can have a PR of 0!

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high volume meaning high traffic?

high volume normally refers to high quantity of visitor impressions rather then unique traffic, but the two normally go hand in hand.

Sorry to bring the subject up again (moderators advice me if I should have opened a new thread)

But page strength (PS from now on) tool either does not work well or it does not work well with my site (or on my end)
example http://hausfay.com (http://www.seomoz.org/page-strength/hausfay.com )
I see a PS 2.5
and I see 0 Y.Links on Full URL and on domain
and I see 1 G.Link 
and 0 DMOZ links
which are all wrong

since when you click on siteexplorer links it gives me more than 100 links in each case and I know for fact that it has 1 Dmoz link  ?

Anybody can confirm/explain these numbers ?

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maybe the pages are down? or they use diff. datacenters? check the backlinks via the tool in my signature (Your websites rank?)

It would appear Yahoo API is currently down notice all the 0s are coming from Yahoo I ran a quick test (using my little python script) and also encountered problems so its not just SEOMoz guess this is the problem with mashups

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Hmm, sometimes Curl is better than an API

CURL is fine until they change the page in some way

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