Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I wouldn't put random text on the pages nor that lorem ipsum text verbatim since the SE's may see it in a negative way. I'd put text on the page that actually states what the page is, like "For future link partners" or something like that. I don't see though how that is going to get a PR3 since PR is based upon those that link to the page.
I wouldn't put random text on the pages nor that lorem ipsum text verbatim since the SE's may see it in a negative way. I'd put text on the page that actually states what the page is, like "For future link partners" or something like that.
Clint is very correct. It's better to publish some content describing what this page will include in the future.
I don't see though how that is going to get a PR3 since PR is based upon those that link to the page.
Clint, I am sure you missed the internal links :)
With this problem in mind I've started creating about ten pages in advance and instead of leaving them blank and possibly incurring a duplicate problem I've filled each one with different lorem ipsum.
Is this a problem in any respect?
I would never do such thing, so I don't have any experience as I find it very dangerous.
Generally, I suggest that you create few pages in order to give them PR, but publish also some real content there until the links and their descriptions go online (few sentences would be enough!).
Make your links page dynamic, /links.html /links.html?2 /links.html?3... will all show the toolbar PR build from links to /links.html. If you add a new page, it will instantly 'have' a toolbar PR. In real life each of these URLs gets its own PR, so you *must* provide internal links to all links pages. For example put in a nav bar crosslinking all links pages, and throw in some internal links from other pages as well as a handful foreign inbound links. This will prove that you're doing honest link exchanges (unfortunately this toolbar flaw gets abused to a great degree).
i don't think so, i have created blank pages before with just the titles while work is in progress and they have been spidered and included in the index - not sure about the pagerank as i don't do it for that reason and have never checked it. (obviously they don't 'rank' because they don't really have any content, but placeholders seem to be fine)
i think if you were to produce 100s of pages this way (just like all those directories with empty categories) you may have trouble, but just a few i think is ok
Clint, I am sure you missed the internal links
Aris, are you saying that INTERNAL links, that is, links from your OTHER webpages to one of your webpages increase that page's PR? If so, how can that be? I was always told here that PR is based on OTHERS that link TO you.
Thanks.
Make your links page dynamic, /links.html /links.html?2 /links.html?3... will all show the toolbar PR build from links to /links.html. If you add a new page, it will instantly 'have' a toolbar PR. In real life each of these URLs gets its own PR, so you *must* provide internal links to all links pages. For example put in a nav bar crosslinking all links pages, and throw in some internal links from other pages as well as a handful foreign inbound links. This will prove that you're doing honest link exchanges (unfortunately this toolbar flaw gets abused to a great degree).
Hmm, interesting. I didn't think G could index "?" URL's or dynamic URL's, are you saying it CAN?
are you saying that INTERNAL links [...] increase that page's PR
They certainly do! Let's assume that the PR of your home page is 9 ;-) and it has only one or two links to other pages. You create a new page, link to it from the home page, and hey, presto! A new PR 8 page!
Eltiti is absolutely right. It's surprising you haven't noticed it on WebmasterWorld yet; internal links DO transfer PR and sometimes do count much more than the off-site links.
That is also true, but you better interpret it this way: Your site needs to have external inbound links to start its PR with. Once it has, every page in your site can distribute PR to one another through internal links. It can also give PR to other website or page through external links.
