What makes a quality link target?

[geline]

What Makes a Quality Link Target?
By Ken McGaffin, Mar 2, 2005, 14:12

Most people use Google PageRank as a measure of the quality of a link target - usually derived from the little green bar that you see when you download the Google toolbar.

This is a mistake.

The score that is shown on the toolbar does not represent the real PageRank that Google assigns to the page. It is notoriously inaccurate almost to the point of being meaningless: it should only be taken as a very rough guide and in my opinion should be marked 'for amusement only'.

So if the PageRank scores Google shares with us are meaningless, how can we gauge the quality of a potential link target?

What are your suggestions on making a quality link target?

source:
http://www.linkingmatters.com/quality-links.html

[lavanay]

Well, I don't agree with this. You will find many different views in this regard. Different webmasters have different views. My personal view is that Google PageRank gives you a fair idea of popularity of a webpage and if you manage to get a link on a website with PR more than 4, then your website will surely benefit.

[SweetCharity]

I never have quite figured out how page rank is measured or where to go to find it.

[lavanay]

I don’t know how it’s measured, but you may download Google Toolbar and see the google page ranking of every page that you open in internet explorer.

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[SweetCharity]

Are there any ways of determining it that don't involve downloading something? My computer doesn't do downloads well.

[geline]

Unfortunately, I haven't seen a site that doesn't download a toolbar when it comes to page ranking. However, I will post in this thread if I find one so that SweetCharity can benefit from it. :)