HarryM - 12:45 pm on Jan 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

instand1 -

how many pages does your site have? How many of them are in Google's index?

Currently just under 200. 137 in Google, which is the total number of pages at the time of the December crawl. Estimate will max out at 300-400.

Mayor -

All you end up with is a sitemap with an impressive PR. Isn't that a shame, now!

Point taken! :)

As to increasing PR by getting incoming links. Mine is a non-commercial site, not very big, and links are difficult to get. And they are usually only PR3, so it's going to take a lot to make any difference. If the linking site has 10 links on the page, then all I get is a max of PR 0.3.

And until I get a decent PR, who is going to want a reciprocal with me? Catch 22! :)

I'm even still waiting for DMOZ, applied for in September. From DMOZ forum I know I'm among 50 in the queue for my category, but I'm still waiting.