Link building - link indexing & passing page rank

[zammo]

--QUESTION 1--
OK - can someone give up some advice on link building. I have successfully set up close to 100 links to my site bit when I go into Google and see who links to me only a few of the sites show up. Is this because Google has a cached version of the link page without my link on. How long does it typically take do re-index that page. Would i be wise to re-submit the url of that page or could this have a negative impact.

--QUESTION 2--
Also can someone tell me how you can tell whether or not a page is passing page rank. I have a link on a pr6 site with only 3 other external links and my site is still at 4 and the link has been on there for close to 8 weeks now. When I checked the other sites that it links to, the page indexed in Google that shows up as a link to them is a deeper page within the site and not the home page. Does mean that the home page is passing pge rank. Any tools out there to check that pages are passing PR value. I guess there is little point in setting up links with pages that do not pass pr?

Thanks in advance

[Ross]

Re Question 1 - The Google backlinks command appears to be intentionally broken. It only shows a random selection of low PR sites that are linking to you. You might be better off checking Yahoo just to make sure that the sites that are supposed to be linking to you are indeed doing so.

Re Question 2 - Quite a tricky question ;). You need to snoop around the other sites that are being linked to in order to make a judgement as to whether PR is being passed. Obviously the amount of PR being passed to linked sites depends on the number of links on the links page. More links = less PR to be passed to each link. The big problem is that links don't seem to have an immediate effect. There's some talk of links being "sandboxed" by Google (do a search on the term if you're not aware...I'm not going there :)). So we end up with 2 possibilities, either the link is not passing PR or the link is new and might pass PR in the fullness of time.

There's a certain fact, Google are doing their best to make it difficult to find paid links and to stop people buying / selling PR.