Tips for finding quality hard link trades
 

How do you decide if a site is worthy of exchanging hardlinks with?

Assuming we completely ignore pagerank, what are some other good ways to quickly evaluate the quality of a backlink? I know to look for basic content quality and number of outbound links, but I'm looking for more things similar to google's link: operator and things like that.

Look around at the site. Does it look like a quality site to you? Does the site have more content than ads?

If so then it's probably a good bet.

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i use a link submitter and it submits to 300+ link sites... don't need to sort them :)

I use SEMRush to see if they have any top 20 Google spots.

do you use their paid services?

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