Searching for websites with high pagerank

I'm looking for quality incoming links

[Philiboy]

Does anyone know if there is a way (or a service or tool) to zoom in on websites which have a given pagerank minimum e.g. 5 and above, preferably combined with searching for keywords e.g I'd like to look for candidate sites to link to my ringtones site to increase my link popularity. I do a google search on mobile accessories or whatever, but its painful looking at each of the results (on first couple of pages) each time, looking at the pagerank.

[jdancing]

Such a tool would be nice to have but it would be against Google's TOS.

[Mohamed_E]

You might take a look at this thread: [webmasterworld.com...] where the whole issue is discussed in great etail.

[Marcia]

Not only Google's TOS, the tools sites are also disallowed in our Charter here.

One easy way to find high PR sites is to figure out the most competitive terms in the particular market and look up those categories in Google's directory. Those are sorted in descending order for Page Rank. Then backtrack from their backlinks - it goes on from there.

There just aren't shortcuts, it all takes a lot of work, time and effort.

[elklabone]

I've had good success with Google Alert. If you can't find it, sticky me and I'll send you the URL.

This service allows you to automatically follow search results at google. For example, you can sign up to monitor "deluxe widgets" and then you will get a daily (or weekly) update whenver the SERPs change for that term (new sites added).

This tells you two things:

The site probably has good PR.
The site probably has a current reciprocal link campaign going.

The problem with DMOZ listings is that many of the sites listed in DMOZ don't have link exchanges, or don't have CURRENT link exchanges...or by the time the DMOZ editors get around to adding a site, the webmaster has died of old age, and therefore CAN'T exchange links.

I've seen a lot of sites that have good PR, but the ONLY incoming link they have is from DMOZ...no help to a webmaster looking for link buddies.

[Arnett]

If you don't want to violate Google policies pick several keywords related to your topic and search Google for "directory widgets","widgets directory","links widgets","widgets links"... Google encourages you to get listed in directories like Yahoo and DMOZ. Don't stop there. Find all of them.

[Arnett]

I try to only exchange links with sites that are topically related. This isn't because of any Google penalty but so that I can control,to some extent,the keyword density of targeted words and phrases. This is so that when people in the same business are searching for "widget links" my links page will rank well for that search topic and attract even more related link partners.

[tigger]

I'm with Marcia there is no shortcut in building PR/links other than checking the b/w links of high PR sites