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I had a banner ad on every page of two PR5 sites of mine for a year, with absolutely no other backlinks besides those two sites. I recently removed the links from the two sites, but just realized today that the widget site is now PR6.
This is my first PR6 site. Should I add the links back to the other sites to keep this one at PR6? Should I consider adding links to other related sites of mine or associates on the homepage of my PR6 site? (the other 3 pages are all PR5). I'm trying to determine what I should and shouldn't add links to on the homepage.
As you can read in the PR Update thread [webmasterworld.com], something seems very odd with the current toolbar PR reports. I would suggest first using other search engines to see if indeed there are significant backlinks to this domain -- enough to make you think that the PR6 is a real thing and not a data accident of some kind.
If the PR6 holds up for you and looks to be "real", then you can begin some planning, and perhpas some judicious interlinking with related domains you own.
From what I can see PR6 to PR7 would take more content on the page with PR6 (minimum 1200 words maybe?) and then tie the entire site in to the same content.
When you get to PR7 I'd sell everything related to widgets because you want even have to do SEO, the SERPS take care of themselves at that level.
Just my two cents.
The thing is a PR7 is that you suddenly have everyone's attention and they all want a piece of your action. As such the competition erupts against you.
Monitor your PR6 which is a very position to be in, come up with some good ideas and if all holds then away you go.
Why are u bothered with PR? does the site get any traffic? that is the acid test surely?
The site gets traffic, its on the first page of Yahoo for the product that was originally sold on the site. In fact, half of the sites on the first page of Yahoo are huge sites that simply provide product info on the widgets, the other half are major retail sites.
A linkdomain check on yahoo shows about 335 backlinks (looks like a lot are ad driven sites that opted to just link to me without asking).
But if I'm no longer selling the product (which maybe I should considering its position in the SERPS), then traffic is completely irrelevant to me. What matters is that its a PR6 site that I could use to pass pagerank on to other sites of mine (which in turn gives me more leverage when offering link exchanges on those sites). I just want to make sure that its not going to hurt anything to link it to a non-widget site.
(also, you can link to sites of many of webmasters here in WW ;))
Yes, I could use some deep links from a PR6 site...
Does deep linking really make a difference? I've read that it doesn't help your site get indexed any better than a direct link to your homepage. Or is it just to help you promote that individual page better in the SERPS? (like a page dedicated to one specific area of web design, like legal website design, etc).
It's hard to make a home page top the SERPs for a very many phrases. It's easy to have an interior page top the charts for a single term. Add lots of interior pages, and suddenly you're getting traffic on literally thousands of different keyword combinations.
First thiing to do is not get your hopes up: there's no way that two PR5 links alone could bring a site to PR6. It seems like a glitch, and I'd say that at most you have a (real) PR4, with a PR3 being more likely.
First thiing to do is not get your hopes up: there's no way that two PR5 links alone could bring a site to PR6. It seems like a glitch, and I'd say that at most you have a (real) PR4, with a PR3 being more likely.
To this and the previous post, keep in mind that I only mentioned placing links on two sites of mine, there seems to be a number of backlinks coming from other sites that I didn't request. Since the site is doing very well in the SERPS, I don't know if its a glitch. If it was PR6 and on the 30th page of Yahoo and Google, I'd agree, but its on the first and second page for very competitive keywords.
I have another site that I launched a few months ago, plenty of backlinks from two PR5 sites were all it took to bring it to PR5 recently.
I have 1430 quality back links according to yahoo link command and I can't seem to get to a pr6, im still a pr5. Don;t tell me 2 or 3 links is gonna get you a pr6
Quality is a relative thing. My mom has a really lame website. My brother set it up for her, and she's just impossible to deal with on it. So if you need her company's shipping address, phone, or what industry they're in, you'll get it from her website, with little more and no style.
I was looking at her website recently with my brother, trying to help him figure out what to do in spite of her. No SEO work has ever been done on this site. It has a looong url, name of company, no keywords. Noticed the PR6 bar, and said "that can't be!" Well, over the last year or two all of her clients, proud of the relationship, linked to her really lame website. There's all kinds of 'quality' back links. (a lot less than a thousand though)
This definitely involved no effort on her part, she's even resisted making the site useful. But her clients love her. As a result, so does Google.
Will 2 or 3 links get you a PR6? Who cares! What you need is to place well for a few search terms, and it can definitely do that with a few well chosen text links.
