THE SCENARIO 1. I have a brand new web site, which follows to be launched. 2. My goal is to reach PR7 for it. 3. I have the possibility to buy PR5, PR6 and PR7 links. THE QUESTION How can I determine the best SEO plan? To be more concrete: how can I calculate the number of a certain PR links in order to achieve my goal? THX! Respiro
If you're only focused on PR then you're probably going to need between 5-10 (possibly more) PR 6 and 7 links depending on the number of outgoing links on the page. This isn't SEO it's just PR building. You do realise that it isn't going to help you getting better search engine rankings right?
Have a read of the full article http://www.compar.com/infopool/articles/PR-calculation.html it has a chart. The chart is also on http://www.compar.com/PR.htm by it's self. Only google will know for sure of course, but it is a good article and the chart will give you an rough idea.
Matt, Thank you for your answer. MY COMMENTS 1. Before starting the link building, the web site will be SEO optimized. 2. I will do SEO work with three purposes in my mind: a. link popularity b. high SERP c. high PR Basicly, all my SEO actions will cover all the up-mentioned fields. Any suggestion/comment is welcome. Respiro
If you're concentrating on getting good results in serach engines, don't worry about PR - look for good quality incoming links from trusted sites on the same topic. I'd take on on-topic PR4/5 link from a site like the BBC or CNN over a PR7/8 link from a site that isn't well established anyday.
Mr. Matt, Thank you for your helping hand! Before buying a link, I'll take a look to the followings: 1. S.E. back links 2. nr. of visitors, to evaluate the potential of traffic bringing - if there's no available official online information, I'll ask for statistics 3. the web site's relevance to the www users
The things I look at are, 1. The relevancy of the page to the page I'm linking to 2. The placement of the link on the page (higher is better) 3. Does the page appear in the SERPS for the term I'm targeting 4. Traffic 5. PR
Just keep thinking that, because Matt Cutts says the opposite: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/infrastructure-status-january-2007/ Golly, doesn't sound worthless to me...
PR itself does not determine a sites rankings but generally having a higher PR helps in a indirect way because PR is determined by incoming links...a sites ranking is also partially determined by its incoming links....so by increasing one you have a good chance of increasing the other.
- quality and related website are more important: - try to make links from: - forum with is one way link - blog comment - education and geverment links - dmoz - yahoo directory - yahoo answers
Gentlemans, thank you for your comments! NEW QUESTION What do you think: a permanent blog link has a different SEO value than a permanent regular web site link? In my opinion, it should have the same relevance.
It is not important where it comes from as long as it is moral, relevant to your business and has a high PR. Regards