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[zumpner]

Let us say you are starting a site from the ground up and its focus is content. You have access to hundreds of unique articles that need publishing on the web.

Given this information must be in a database (dynamic) and you like to reach a broad audience, what would be the BEST way of getting all information accurately and quickly indexed by search engines?

Here is my stab at it…

Create an index page linking to every article on the site

Have every page link back to the home page

Have like articles link to each other

Have outgoing links on each article to similar content
Does this kill the page’s PR?

Obtain one-way text links (with good anchor text) from similar sites
Text link brokers or not?
How much does PR matter?

Get the site indexed in human edited directories
DMOZ
Zeal

Make site static
Mod rewrite or not?

Title/Description/Meta/Phrase Density
Is this that important or should the articles guide your way without optimization?

[tedster]

Create an index page linking to every article on the site

Not for "hundreds" of articles. You need an information architecture here, and at least a two click path to the actual articles. Hundreds of links on the Home Page will, most likely, not all be indexed.

Have outgoing links on each article to similar content
Does this kill the page’s PR?

IMO, links are not necessary for "each article" -- but no, outgoing links do not dimish the page's PR. What does happen is the force of that page's "vote" for any other page it links to is split up just a bit more so the other pages get a bit less benefit from their link.

If an outbound link makes sense, then place it and have no concerns about PR -- but don't feel compelled to give every page an OBL.