How do you fit the all the links in?

[JudgeJeffries]

I keep seeing posts here about sites having 600, 3,000, 900, etc links for page rank purposes and I presume a lot must be reciprocated.
Where do they fit all of the reciprocations in on the page or are they usually spread out over scores of pages or just a links or resources page.
If its a populous links page whats the point as PR passed on will be very diluted.
Just cant seem to get to grips with it, can some one explain?

[Birdman]

I would imagine a large portion of those links are from the site's internal pages. They count too.

[JudgeJeffries]

OK, that I understand, but how can that result in high PR as if each page has only a few reciprocal links, and presumably a few links in, and page rank is on a page by page basis then the PR would hardly be affected or is it arranged so that all incoming links are targetted at the index page, thus raising the PR for that page only.

[Birdman]

I think some go for the directory structure for their outgoing links and others may spread the links around the site, wherever they fit best.

As far as the incoming links, I think most have them point at their home page and then pass the pr throughout their site as they see fit.

[firstmark]

Sites with a lot of links probably did not get most of the links through reciprical links at all.
They got them by having quality content people want to link to. That being said you can get more links just by asking and offering a link in return if you go about things in an intelligent manner.

[davey]

Birdman - Reference your earlier comment "As far as the incoming links, I think most have them point at their home page and then pass the pr throughout their site as they see fit" - how do they pass the pr throughout their site?

[Birdman]

>>>how do they pass the pr throughout their site?

Your pr is automatically passed on by any links on the page. Check out the Google Knowledge Base [webmasterworld.com] for a more complete description.

[dcheney]

I very rarely hear about a new incoming link (I've had less than 10 requests in the past year or two). I normally just see them pop up in the referring sites report from my stats software.

[paynt]

In working PR another angle to think about when considering reciprocating a link is what a link back from you will act to boost the PR of the site you are linking back to. A boost in a partner site in turn boosts what you get out of it. Yes, take in all the non reciprocated linking you can get but don’t rest on those laurels, it’s sweet and all but I’ll be impressed when you tell me what you are doing now with those links. Tell me what you are doing to maximize on the benefits.