This site is pretty old as web sites go. When I made it, it was conventional to name link pages just that, "links".Currently it is thought by some experts that search engines have devalued pages named "links".

Larry is correcting what might become a problem for my link partners. I have created a second page called web-associates.htm. You will find a duplicate link there.

From here on down it will be mostly gibberish to anyone but an experienced webmaster.

It is a search engine no-no to have duplicate content on different pages. Accordingly, I have prohibited all search engines from indexing the original page.I used the robots.txt. Google posted the new page the very next day. They simultaneously de-listed the old. So far so, good

Here comes the tricky part, which involves the Google toolbar. The old page PR went to Non Existent (gray bar ). The new page meanwhile shows a PR 0. I expect that on the next update (probably towards the end of July it will be updated to at least the bottom value of any page on this site, The lowest page has a PR 4.

It is my understanding that the Page Rank is calculated by Google on the fly, but the Google toolbar is updated once every month or so. If that's true, then your link has moved over seamlessly, and that's all there is to say.

But maybe I am wrong about the PR, being a continuous 4. If so, you are still getting the benefit of a link, but, for a time, it will be a link of much less value. Definitely the PR will move up eventually Please bare with me.

If this still bothers you, let me know. I value every one of my link partners. I will make some sort of accommodation.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Larry Weiss

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