In regards to Search Engine Optimization: 1. Your going to get more comments approved. 2. They are still going to be beneficial because it is going to draw pagerank to your home page, thus passing it on to all your links (with keyword anchor text). My thoughts are just bring has much "link juice" to my home page as I can and I will link from my home page to my pages I want to rank for using my keywords. 3. Most comment pages that allow you to use your keywords words are FULL to the brim of links thus diluting the value. My Tip:Don't go after comments with high tool bar pagerank. When all reality the pages with PR0 are passing more link juice. Plus they have less links because the "link juice commentators" are thumbing through pages trying find high PR. You agree or disagree?
That is correct, however if some one does not know your company name and does a general search on google, you could possibly be missed in the SERPs. That is why it is best to vary the texts you use for backlinkg to your site.
I don't think he meant backlinking this way as a complete "substitute" to backlinking with relevant keywords and anchor texts. Yes, but I see his point since this will allow you to post to more blogs and you still get the PR benefit.
I disagree. I think in all reality, links from pagerank 0 pages will usually pass 0 linkjuice. While links from pages with pagerank are diluted by the number of outbound links on the page, i think even a small fraction of that pagerank is better than a small fraction of 0 pagerank. If you are using the assumption that many PR0 pages have a decimal percentage of pagerank assigned to them, I think that's a theory that's been thrown out thee before, but never been proven, and has never has sufficient evidence to make it even remotely credible.
Your way off here...... Follow me here.... I have a PR7 Blog... and I make a post about Windows 7 Release. Lets say soon after Google Updates their pagerank toolbar and assigns a pagerank of 6 to that post. Now over the months I am going to make new post and that post is going to leave my homepage and fall into my categories. Lets say now I have another post on my blog about The new apple IPAD. This post is going to show a PR0 but in all reality its probably a PR6. But since google hasn't update the toolbar (that they do over 3-4 months) it is going to show PRO until then. And for the PR6 post about Windows 7 release is actaully probably a PR2-PR3 but its still showing PR6 because they don't update the PR regularly. Hope this make sense.... You have to remember that pagerank is a constantly updating number and we can't get caught up in it. Just because the toolbar says PR6 doesn't mean its a PR6. Just because it says PR0 doesn't mean its a PR0. I would much rather have a PR0 content link from a post that is linked to from the homepage than a PR6 content link from a post that is buried deep in a blog. I guarantee that PR6 link is going to go down and that PR0 is going to go up.... Its common sense....
That makes no sense - in English or seo-wise. Anyway, not all pages get their PageRank due to a link on the front page. Some pages are just more linked to and therefore worth more in a seo's point of view.
Sure, but the situation you described is very, very rare. Most posts on a PR7 blog are NOT linked to from the homepage. They may show up under the 'recent posts' area, but they too, will probably eventually fall into obscurity. It's true that the pagerank you see on the toolbar is only accurate at the time it up updated, but for PR0 blogposts, the VAST, VAST majority of them are indeed PR0, and will still be PR0 after the next update. I agree with what you, in that you can't judge the value of a backlink by PR alone. But you can't just say globally that pr0 pages are better. That simply isn't true. You may find PR0 pages that are indeed worth more than a link on a page with PR, but that should be regarded as the very rare exception, and not the rule.
I guess I should have worded it a little different. Basically, I am trying to make the point that instead of relying on the toolbar pagerank, we need to research deeper, and look more at incoming links to the post, wether they are from the parent blog, or IBL's from another site. Just like what Silfur stated. I think a lot of newer people get caught up in the toolbar PR to much. Although it is helpful it basically just gives a snapshot.