Whats the difference between building links for SERPS and building links for PR? It looks to me virtually the same thing.......you want good quality relevant dofollow backlinks with higher PR than your own site (and the more the better!). So is there any difference between building links for SERPS as opposed to building links for PR?
for achieving good SERPS the anchor text is most important thing, also it has nothing to do with no-follow or do-follow, whereas in achieving PR Keywords are not given that much importance but do-follow link is important.
no follow links still help increase your keyword rankings for the SERPs? thats good to know... i agree with mr matrix as well
Yeah, they may be hand in hand... though, what one should truly do is build links for quality content, heh... that way, SERP and PR will be more natural, and longer lasting... that'll also keep people coming back for more. There are several sites that I find that get good SERP (no clue what their PR is, I don't bother with that on my toolbars) that I refuse to visit based on the low quality content once I get there. I'd rather take the word of a random troll on some random forum before I took a spammed site at face value... build quality sites for the end user, not the middle man (bots, SE's) and you'll make EVERYONE happy!
Since when? Do you know something that we don't? The format adopted by Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc is: I underlined the word, ranking, to point out that they are not supposed to use it for that purpose. Now if you can point to some authoritative article that will prove or suggest that they do afford any ranking weight for a nofollow link, then please do.
That's news to me, unless you work for Google I will have to disagree with that stance considering that a dofollow link doesn't help for PR or SERPS.
When building links for pr it doesn't matter if you have anchor text but building links for serps having anchor text helps you rank high for the keyword that is in your anchor text
There is a difference. You just stated what is necessary for good SERPs...which just happens to have the side effect of higher PR. But it doesn't work the other way around. If you simply go after PR you won't increase your SERPs. Building links for Google SERPs is about getting good quality related links to your site with the proper anchor text. Building links for PR is doesn't require anything except getting a lot of high PR links to your site regardless of the relevance or the quality. Building links this way can give you an extremely high PR without ranking for any decent keywords in Google.
If PR doesn't have an effect on SERPs, why do people seem to care so much about it? What other value could it have?
PageRank is often out of date because it is only updated about once every 1-3 months. I recommend focusing on serps, because that is what is going to bring you the traffic. But if you intend selling dofollow links (which google doesn't like) you need to focus on getting a good page rank. As far as I know, nofollow doesn't count for anything to google or yahoo.
You reinvented the SEO.. =] Who gives a s*** to PR if you can rank? Of course nofollow doesn't weight on SERPS.
2 false statements: * Google updates PR more often than 1-3 months (it's just a publicly available information they update every 1-3 months) * nofollow DOES count to Google.
Yep beating a dead horse but nofollow means for search engines to not follow it which means you get nothing. Google now indexes basically within a few hours anymore as I was using Google for searching do follow bookmarking and first thing was a DP thread that was started less than 24 hours ago.
Google follows nofollow links... test it out. They just don't count that link in their rankings etc. However, there is a thread around someplace where a guy tested it out with sites like StumbleUpon as his only method of promotion and achieved good PR and SERP within 3 months... so even if google does not say it, they seem to count them on some level... THough, there does not seem to be a link to his page, so *shrug* take it from the source...