I have seen reciprocal link pages on websites with lower PR because they have 100 outbound links.

Lower PR than what? Please Neil, tell me you are not insinuating that a page’s own PR can be lowered by the amount of outbound links on it. OMFG. (unless you’re ultimately referring to later iterations of PR through the entire site causing any given page’s PR to be reduced because the site now has many pages with many [new] outbound links)

And Cameron, you’re wrong… sort of.

Let’s say you publish a page with no outbound links but which has 10 internal links.

Then, you decide to go back and add some “resources” so you edit and republish it, and it now has 10 internal links and 10 outbound links. Publishing the page with those 10 outbound links certainly doesn’t automatically reduce its PageRank, but upon following iterations of PageRank that does mean the PageRank it itself passes through its internal links will be diluted. This could have a noticeable effect on other pages if that particular page happens to be some page that generated a lot of inbound links and is perhaps the highest PR page on the site.

Although if you believe that internally and externally passed pagerank values work independently of one another than the above would not hold true. Unless of course you’re Neil who apparently has seen a page’s own PR reduced because it had 100s of outbound links. In that case, since the page itself had reduced PR it would of course not matter now whether internal and outbound links passed pagerank independently since your internal links on that page would now be subject to a distribution of that self-inflicted lower PR.

I love surfing the blogs out there, and everytime I find one that I want to go back and read again I always forget where they are and can’t find them again…

I solved that problem though… the way I figure it, if I like the blog enough to go back and read it again, than people who like my blog, prob’ly well want to read it too, so I write a post about the blog, which contains a link to it, and than I add it to my blogroll… todat my blog rool has over 100 links in it, it’s by far the biggest blog roll I’ve ever seen on a blog, but at least now I don’t lose my way back to blog I like to read.

well, an unexpected side effect of doing this is that a few days after adding my long blog roll I checked mt Technorati rank, and was shocked to learn that I had gone from being in the millions up to being 200,000, that was quite switch…

well I come to find out, that several of the blogs I had added to my blogroll, had in turn added me to theirs, I was not expecting that, but that’s what did it… when I added them to mine, it raised their rank, and they did me the same favor… WOW! You see at the time I started doing this, I didn’t know about pingbacks, I had never heard of them before, so I didn’t know that everytime I talked about a blog I liked, my blog sent them a copy of my article, so each time I sad something nice about them, they knew I had said it, only I didn’t know that was happening, so I didn’t know that the blogs I was talking about knew about my blog… well long story short, I found a great way to do link exchange and I wasn’t even trying!

~~EK

This is a highly debatable topic and tons of people are in love with PR, but I do not even look at PR anymore. There are sites with low PR that rank higher then high PR sites.