Do PR0 Links Hurt The Target?

Do links from sites with PR0 hurt my site's page rank? Should I tell people to remove their links to me if they have PR0?

In general no.

From what we are lead to believe there is nothing that another webmaster can do to inflict harm on your website. If this is true then a link from a PR0 site will have no effect on your website, neither good nor bad, it will most likely be neglected.

If however these websites are hosted on the same server as your website and there is more than a realistic amount (i.e. if they are intentionally there for spamming purposes) then you may want to get the links removed.

In summary, if they are your websites which you are using to increase your rankings then remove them. If they are genuinely not yours, ten forget about them!

Links from PR0 will not effect your site.
but Links from your site to PR0 sites might effect your site...

I saw an article once that claims that google realize that you can not control if a site wants to link to you...
How ever google might "flack" you if you will link to a spam site
so i never link to a PR0 site....

So what happens if a site only links to pr10 site's?

I would find it hard to believe that Google would penalize you for linking to a PR0 site.

Doesn't every site start out at PR0 until someone links to it? If Google penalizes you for linking to PR0 sites than they are telling you to never link to new sites....no matter how much great content they have.

One thing I have heard that you should watch out for is the percentage of outgoing links that link back to you. This is a good sign of a link farm.

For example, if I link to 50 sites, and 25 of those sites link back to me...that would mean that I am "link partners" with 50% of the sites. You should try to keep that number as low as possible.

What I have done is use a robots.txt to keep google from spidering my outgoing link pages. That way it looks like I have a lot of incoming links, but hardly any outgoing links.

First, Preventing from the spider to crawl your link page is not fair to your link partners!!!

When I trade link I always check to see if the link page is indexed and if its not I will not trade link!!!

second, There are 2 reasons why a page get PR0 only google knows for sure why, but we have tools to check if the site got pennalty or because it has no outside links.

google can give you pennelty for linking to a spam site with PR0
it wouldnt do the same for a link to a bad linked page.

I cross-link all of my domains, in order to increase PR. Now, I had a great dance on March 7th, but one of my sites was banned. None of my other cross-linked sites were banned, but however this website was. What is the strangest thing is that all of my other domains linked to it, but I never actually put up my links on that site. Therefore, it had 0 outbound links. For all google could have known it was someone elses site. Without any cheating of the actual site it was banned, because it was linked to on a link farm. Interesting, no?

My thoughts:

I have a site with a webmaster focus which permits other webmasters to submit a link request and a recip link/description is required.

I never look at the PR. The toolbar is not even loaded on my main machine. What I do:

I let the form submissions back up till I have ten or so. This helps eliminate folks playing games. Then I go to the home page first and examine the quality of the site, does it's content enahnce the visitor experience for my site and actually help them, and does the other sites link page branch from the home page with my keyword rich description.

Natch, I don't link to link farms, spamola stuff, and any site unless it's a perfect fit for my visitors. I reject about 30% of them.

My site that does this has very good rankings on 2 and 3 word terms, a reasonable amount of page views per Google visitors, and a very nice increase in back links and Google traffic for the last 3 months that I have owned the site.

Edit: I'm not inferring that I'm a SEO Pro like many of you folks. Rather, I have a rather old fashioned view that without vistors who bookmark because the site has compelling content, my site is toast. So much of this is just common sense and I'm not the least bit concerned that out of my 1400+ html links and descriptions, their may in fact be a bad apple in the crowd. That's not to say that I can't improve either