After 1 Year of Hard Core Off-Site SEO I've found that getting backlinks does work to boost PR. But if you don't keep it up, links naturally die out and you'll lose your PR. Also, the big shocker PR has no relation to how your page ranks in Google. I have one site on page 1 in a 2 key word combination with 2.7 million hits. After I stopped blacklinking to it to move to other projects, It dropped from a PR4 to current PR2 but is still on page 1 as competition ever increases. So, IMHO backlinking is great for PR and *might* help with ranking in the search engines but the best thing you can do is update your content (i did so daily) and get into the niche early.
of course. as long as G sees new content they will continue to crawl and will rank you higher then that dinosaur that updated 2 years ago last.
thats the google basic algorithm that if you want pr or want to listed in google then you must have to get backlinks.if you stop it you will sure lots your pr.
abercrombie, What would you say is the best way to 'update content'? If it's articles, do there need to be links from the main page to these articles? What if it's hundreds of articles? Is it better to have all articles on one page, like /articles.html or 1 page per article(if so, how do I get them indexed?)
Hi abercrombie, u r right. iam also faced the same thing in my site. The website should be content rich. Creating backlink to the site should not be stopped. it should be a continuing process.
I'll tell you what, you it is impossible to get pagerank without backlinks. How you get them is another matter altogether.