I agree that a new website, needs to start off at the bottom, and work its way up, but its really annoying to me when i request a link exchange from someone they come back and want all types of stipulations in order to execute a simple link exchange! Almost everyone is concerned about PR having pr doesnt mean that traffic flows on your site, pr 0 can get more traffic than as pr5! Usually when i do a link exchange i look at the site and make an assement of either it was thrown up in a matter of hours or the site was thought out and effort put in. pr will come usually within one update, and easily a pr 3 can be achieved with little effort!
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