My last comment on this topic.
Juicify, perhaps you're just a really, really bad communicator. In my previous quote, you are giving advice that one should never link exchange with anybody that may have lower page rank than you. If you believe that statement, you are wrong. I can point to many half assed tutorials that completely back whatever I want about page rank because there are plenty of people out there selling their bullshit. However, common sense says that it would be rediculous for Google to actually rank any of your pages down for doing a reciprocal link. Here's the thing, you have to think about these things. If your site and all its pages are a PR 5, that means it's already getting a bunch outside links. That also means that your internal links to internal pages likely aren't affected much, and almost certainly aren't hurt enough to warrant not doing a link exchange.
Sure, there are probably some very special cases out there that may make a case for not doing a link exchange because of PR. For example, maybe a site has a homepage of PR 10 and it has only one other page. The homepage has a lot of inbound links which is why it's a PR 10 but the other page has no inbound links from outside sides only one link from the PR 10 homepage. Let's also say that the homepage ONLY links to the internal page and nowhere else. Now, obviously that PR 10 homepage link will give a decent amount to the internal page. Let's just say, conservitavely, that the internal page gets a PR of 3. Now, since the homepage is the ONLY page linking to the internal, any inbound links that are reciprocated from the homepage are going to hurt the internal page more than help. This is an incredibly special case and since most sites will not have such an odd setup, your advice given was incredibly bad. This is why I gave you the bad rep.
As for L#, since you can't be bothered to come up with any answers to my valid points, I won't be bothered to come up with any more reason why you are being a hyprocrit.
For both of you, the rediculousness is that you both felt threatened and or "wronged" for me giving you bad rep. You both said it was unjustified and that I was misusing the system. Now, think about that. I was misusing the system because I thought both of your posts were not only bad, but they were giving others (what I believe to be) incredibly bad advice. Now, that seems like the exact reason to use the rep system don't you think? Let's now think about what you BOTH did after receiving the rep... oh yeah, you turned around and gave me bad rep soley for giving your bad rep. L# even wrote the comment "you give what you get", while obviously misstyped, still points out that he didn't care at all about the post he was repping, only about revenge. For both of you to come out and say I was abusing the rep system is a friggin hypocrisy. Learn to take criticism, especially when it's needed and stop being sensitive internet babies.
Feel free to continue this conversation without me.
