PR6 > PR7

How to improve on PR?

[Newman]

I have PR 6 with only 55 links on Google (one link is Google directory). It is obvious that number of links is not only important for PR. So how to improve on PR now.

[rfgdxm1]

Buy a link from a PR9 page with few outbound links. ;)

[2_much]

Try getting a couple of links from sites with "hub" status. Or you could try sending out a press release, or something like that. Buying a couple of high PR links would also help.

[Eric in Tennessee]

Sorry for the "less informed question," but how does one recognize

sites with "hub" status

?

Thanks,

eTN

[Perplexed]

"Sorry for the "less informed question," but how does one recognize sites with "hub" status ? "

I'll second that question....

[Bernie]

hub IMO means a site that is considered an important knowledge-point to a specific topic hence has lot's of on-topic inbound-/and outbound-links and depending on the topic may also have high PR.

To find the hub of your topic you may procede like this:

- check the rankings on keywords related to your topic
- check the inbound links for the first page's results
- check the outbound links of these sites
- have a special look on sites showing up in the related dmoz-/yahoo-category resp. specialized directories of your industry
- look for hubs = sites showing up repeatedly during all this research.

- think about a strategy to make them link to you such as (reciprocal, €€, you name it)
- good luck

[doc_z]

Links from 'hubs' might improve the ranking, however they don't play any specific role in PR calculation. Neither topic nor authority are related to PR.

[dougs]

Try

1 good link from a PR8
10 good links from PR7´s
100 good links from PR6´s
1000 good links from PR5´s

Done

Doug

[kriskd]

There are PR9s that will link to your site if you pay them? Do they advertise this service or do you have to offer? Can anyone point these out to me? (Basically just for curiousity purposes)

Kris

[edited by: heini at 5:11 pm (utc) on Aug. 24, 2003]
[edit reason] Please don't use urls / thanks! [/edit]

[Imaster]

Buy a link from a PR9 page with few outbound links

Do you know any particular PR 9 sites which would sell a link?

[heini]

>Do you know
Let's not name names or specifics, as that would not only be against our board policy but also probably less than desirable for the sites involved, thanks!

[Newman]

So, no money no music! Where are other solutions? PR 6 is the limit (for sites without money)?

[dudmembership]

So, no money no music! Where are other solutions? PR 6 is the limit (for sites without money)?

Not quite. If you have a good site, you should be able to find some good high PR links out there. DMOZ top-level categories for example will earn you a PR7 virtually automatically (of course, you have to be very good). There are many ways to get the PR up higher. If you don't have money, you need to be willing to spend a lot of time on it instead. Either way, it will cost you something :)

There are PR9s that will link to your site if you pay them? Do they advertise this service or do you have to offer? Can anyone point these out to me? (Basically just for curiousity purposes)

This thread [webmasterworld.com] details a PR9 site selling a link. A sweet price for it too though.

The real question at hand is not how to increase PR though - it's how to increase your ranking in the search engines! PR is only a small part of that. My site went from a PR6 to PR7 a few weeks ago with virtually no difference in our rankings (not really sure if there was any at all). What you should be focussing on is anchor text from incoming links, your title tags, h1 tags and so on.

[annej]

I once had a PR7 and this spring when so many sites lost PR it went to PR6. Broke my heart, but that is really all the damage it did as it didn't hurt the page in the serps at all. A lot of the sites linking to me lost PR and some were PR7s so what can you do? Sort of like dominos.

For a few lovely months I could look at that PR7 on the Google bar. Pure vanity really. I sure wouldn't spend money on PR.

[jcoronella]

I have a PR5 site that if I wanted to could (and have before) re-organize the links to focus more of the PR to one or two pages to make it a PR6. One thing you might do is look at your structure - you may have a PR7 page in your site already. (of course, it may be better to have your PR distributed)

[dougs]

One big PR page or lots of good PR....go for the latter

[jcoronella]

One big PR page or lots of good PR....go for the latter

Well, of course! ;)

But if you have a keyphrase or three that need a bigger gun, you can use this technique to get you up a few spots while searching for some more links.

[johnnydequino]

Well - if anyone wants to stickymail me a link to buy from a PR9 site I won't say anything. =)

jd

[annej]

Another thing to consider. A site's homepage may be PR8 or 9 but it's very doubtful that your site will be linked to from that page. More likely it will be linked on a PR4 or 5 page.