Is Signing GuestBooks, way to get PR Soaring?

[McMohan]

I just stumbled upon an idea of signing guest books and leaving the site URL as Hyper Link in Comment, to get the site PR high. Looks spammy huh?
Its easy to find hundreds of sites with guestbooks, where one can leave comments. Also a great no. of guestbook pages have PR more than 4. Getting a link is instantaneous. With all these advantages, can one succeed in getting site PR high by simply signing guestbooks? Will "theme" matter? On worst case sceanrio, will the losses be more than gains?

How to find such guestbooks?.. simply search for guestbook.htm in Google ;)

Mc

[Krapulator]

WOW! Great Idea.

(Seriously ... not a good idea)

[tigger]

Try doing a search here you will find loads of past posting on GB's

[coconutz]

>>With all these advantages, can one succeed in getting site PR high by simply signing guestbooks?

Currently, yes. You can even use your preferred anchor text in some guestbooks.

>>On worst case sceanrio, will the losses be more than gains?

I think we may see guestbook links ignored but not penalized. If this is the primary source of PR, then there's quite a bit to lose.

I'd concentrate on getting quality links that may also send some visitors your way.

[McMohan]

Thanx Coconutz,

I understand, anything overdone is not good. But presently is there any technique/filters used by google, by which it'll know that a site is using Guestbooks primarily to get its PR and ignore them? Also when a site is targetting non-competitive Phrases, where just by getting a PR of 3 will be sufficient to get top ranks, isn't this method effective?

Thanx

Mc

[tigger]

>But presently is there any technique/filters used by google, by which it'll know that a site is using Guestbooks primarily to get its PR and ignore them?

Not yet, but it has to be on the cards

[coconutz]

>>Also when a site is targetting non-competitive Phrases, where just by getting a PR of 3 will be sufficient to get top ranks, isn't this method effective?

It seems to be very effective for now. But as tigger suggests, it may be something that Google is currently trying to work out.

It may be a fast way to break into the top spots, but I wouldn't count on this to maintain those rankings.