If you do link exchanges and do a link: on your site any partner pages linking to you on a links.html links.htm links.php etc. will not be shown, afaik this is happening 100% of the time at the time of this post.

The page must be named links.something, if it is links2.html it will still be counted. Also most likely PR won't be counted from links.something as well.

Question to seo guy, from your experience do you think anchor text is still being counted though. It may be possible that while backlinks and PR aren't passing through, anchor text is still being taken into account.

Perhaps you can set it up as a test on seo-tests.com?

Hello Friend

You are right!

google is not counting back links form the pages like link.html, links.html. I have seen the backward link of my one web site just 5 minutes before and i have found that google is not showing the backward link to my web site from PR 5 page named as link4.html. Link4.html has PR5.

Interesting Posting by you! and Interesting results in google
link:http://www.mydomain.dom

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I recomend not even using the word links at all in the url....

We don't know whats going to happen in the near future....

Better off callling it:

other-webs.html or something to that effect.... Something that will never be targeted....

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I certainly don't know, but to me it would be counter productive or at least a waste of time for Google to filter out links from pages named links. People would just change the name. Beyond that it is standard nomenclature.

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People are just changing the name, I think google was realizing that people who have a links page where just filling it with links to different, non-related sites so they canned it, but people who where naming the files, investingresources or investinglinks, would naturally have investing related sites on there, sure lots of people who where not abusing their links.htm pages got kicked out too, but I think google preffered to see so much of the link spamming get kicked out the door.

seokid, so it's already in place? If so, does it just not value the links on the page or is the site with the links page penalized in some fashion?

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hi again

Now the question is that if google is considering PR share from that page or not
(link.html or links.html) to other pages listed on that. I think G has no value of Link.html and Links.html according to its recent algo.

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So would it mean that simply changing the name of the page will keep the importance of such pages or would such link pages be penalised.But what about the people who are not abusing such link pages.If only by changing the name the benefit can be taken then surly there will again be no benefit of dropping the link pages.

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From what I have seen, the links.htm page WILL have PR but it will simply not pass on to any links on that page. Also the keyword in the anchor text is not counted or the link would show up as a backlink. I'm not 100% sure if it discounts pages like domain.com/links/resources.php. I just haven't tested it yet, as soon as I find a page like that in my daily searches for links partners that has a PR 4 I will be checking everyone on that page for backlinks to test it.

Either way, when you're doing searches for link partners, I don't recommend discounting them as a partner, just simply explain whats going on and give them some literature on the subject, 95% of the people I've run into have been really appreciative about it.

Well I've been looking a bit and found a couple of sites that break down their links as site.com/links.htm > categories. If this were true, and it seems so much of the time, would it be reasonable to expect all category pages to have PR-0? Most seem to have PR-0 but some are PR 2-4, and none of those category pages have any back links.

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