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start at dmoz.org
Check the sites over to make sure they are not linking to any bad neighborhoods if you link back to them.
By linking to lower PR sites, you will start to get some inbound links and eventually get your PR to increase which will open the door to getting links from higher PR sites.
It is a process that takes time and will not happen over night.
Also, review your site to ensure your taking advantage of the links your pages can give yourself. If you have many pages, you can generate quite a few backlinks if done right.
Every little bit adds up in the long run.
start at dmoz.org
I have submitted with no luck
Try going after local directories (focused on your town, city, state, province..etc..)
Keep pluggin' away..keep sending our link requests..keep searching for new sites and directories to submit too..
Build up your internal link structure like MrGuy suggested
Good luck,
- Chad
In other words if you have a link from DMOZ and Google give you a white 0 bar, then the DMOZ link will no longer show up as a lonk.
Try with TravelNow to see that although they have links, they show up as zero links when you interogate Google on incoming links
Bad advice, as it could be well over a year before his site is reviewed and added. Best is to beg a link from a relative, friend who has a site with decent Google PR. Those kind of links can be got in a few days.
It won't give you a high PR, but it will at least get you away from that dreaded PR0.
well its good advice, although it takes a while you will get a link eventually, but be creative as to which cat you submit too,
however i meant START at dmoz. of course you must keep going, pay yahoo if required - this is pretty much a guaranteed way of starting yourself off.
then get links in free directories regional/whatever.
then start on a link exchange hunt with similiar sites, some will be happy to exchange, also the vast MAJORITY of webmasters have no idea what page rank is, so if you are a zero or very low, it won't put them off anyway.
One strategy which might work is to link to a site you like which isn't too big and sure of itself. Then write the webmaster of the site saying, "hey, I really like your site. I just wanted to let you know I liked it so much I posted a link to it from the site I just started." Do that 50,000 times and if you don't get at least a 1,000 inbound links I'd be surprised. Don't feel energetic enough to do it 50,000 times? Do it 500 times and maybe you'll get 10 inbounds.
The thing is that it takes a lot of work to get those first inbounds but after a while the thing really does take a life of its own.
Also, if you want to make sure whether you do have any backlinks - even if they don't show up in Google - try Fast or AV.
Alright I went to alltheweb and saw I have one page linking to me with PR6, I know they have had us up there for a while. My ques. is how many of these are needed to get off PR0? ten, twenty, hundred?
1 PR6 link should definately get you off PR0, unless a penaly is applied.
that is assuming that the PR6 is an "actual" PR6 and not a guessed PR based on rest of the site, and also the fact that its not 1 of the few sites which can NOT pass PR.
Shak
The strategy here is quite simple. If you can get a link on a well spidered page from someone that is in all the search engines, this is ALL you need to do to get in all of them. Their spiders will follow it and add you. Thus e-mail cousin Kim and ask her to add a link on her well established hobby site to your site. As for what is "decent" PR, I'd say PR4 or better. However, even if cousin Kim's page is PR3, still better than nothing. Remember, PR *isn't* the whole ball game. I could get a site to do well in Google easily with a PR3 if the target keywords weren't all that competitive. Sure, I wish I could get my 2 sites up to PR7 or PR8 from their current mediocre PR5. However, I'm kicking ass big time in the Google SERPs with that mediocre PR5. PR is like something else that is well known. It ain't how big yours is, it is how well you use it. ;)
Another source of incorrect toolbar PR is in sites using frames (which I am woefully ignorant about). I do know, though, that they can display an overly high PR (perhaps that of the home page, not too sure), and that one way of finding their true PR is to right click on the link (with IE) and select "display in new window".
I would love some details from someone who knows more about this than I do :)
