Dugger - 10:36 pm on Feb 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have a directory site that has been in existence for just under two years. 99% of the sites that I link to have PRO and the same is true with the pages that link back to me. All links are direct - no counting redirects.

My site has PR5 and ranks #1 for its keywords - all from PR0 links.

All links are relevent to the topic of the directory however and that is probably far more important than PR

I have the same experience with another of my sites as well but with that one I discovered that there is a threshold - that when crossed causes the rankings to slide. That is, when I have a lot more outgoing links than incoming links the rankings suffer.