So someone posted that Slashdot.com has a PR of 9 and I went over to take a look. Sure enough, they do. However, it seems like the link is only good for the first page because once you fall off, the PR is 0. How does one take advantage of that front page PR and is there a way to retain that link juice once your news story is moved from the front page?
Most of these type of sites using rel=nofollow anyway, and you're right it will drop off the home page quickly.. For a while, Netscape.com (now moved to Propeller.com) used to rotate your link off to a subcategory or tag pages, some of which could be PR5's and PR6's, and if you picked the right tags it could be there indefinitely.. In any case, I think the temporary boost to traffic is what most people would think of in terms of taking advantage of these sites. You can get a spike of 40k to 100k visitors in a couple days. Eric
I was working with a small e-zine hosting the sites on their own server a few years back and they were not very happy when I did it for them making their site inaccessible.. (slashdotted).
Even if slashdot uses nofollow, if you can get those 40-100k visits from being on the homepage - and your hosting holds up - and your site is actually worth those visitors' time, then you stand to get a lot of backlinks from other sites when those visitors mention your site.