Pagerank and SEO works needed to be done

[kelvincho]

Hi there,
I have some questions about the following,

1. I have seen a site with less pagerank and smaller site, but he is able to hit the top one position on the keyword I am pursueing for on google. My site has higher rank and used to list on the top of google before Florida Dance. But now, I can't see it listed on even the first ten page for the selected keywords. Wonder if anyone has experience about this? Is that penalty or something?

2. I have seen a nice page with lot of links (it is an affiliate site). This site get a lot of top 3 positions for most of the products he is promoting on the website. Wonder how he does it? The more of the links to various places the better?

Best regards,
Kelvin

[arrowman]

This can be explained by any of the 100 or so non-pagerank factors.

And yes, outbound links (probably) do count. Your best bet is to maintain a reasonable balance between text and outbound links.

The anchor text of inbound links is also very important.