Newbie question here... I have a new site with a PR of 0 - I will be concentrating on the long tail here, I have found a couple of niches within my field. I have created about 15 landing pages that target these keyword niches, now I do not know if I should concentrate on building links to my main\index page since this page contains keywords that are a lot more competitive and it will take me a while to get any really good ranking. Or, should I spend most of my time building links to my landing pages which in turn will have a faster time of obtaining top 10 rankings for the keywords I am targeting. There are a couple of things that I am not clear on. 1. If one of my landing pages ends up with a PR 5 after one year of healthy link building, and say my index page has a PR of 2, does this have any negative effects? 2. If I build links for both at what pace does the SE consider natural link building without raising any flags for a new site? for example, If I build an average of 10 links in a week for www.widgets.com, is ok to build 10 more links to www.widgets.com/bluewidgets.htm ? Does this count as 20 links to the SE? I the suggested amount of links to a new site is 10, should this number be distributed within the domain or can I build 10 links for each landing page and my index page?. Thank you in advance for responding........ Joe
1. No negative effects. There are countless of sub pages that have higher PR than their homepages. 2. Search engines do not penalize your site if you are gaining links fast. Why? Because if search engines penalize this act, your competitors will set up hundreds of thousands of links to your site for sabotage. One final advice, do not be concerned on the number of inbound links. Just make sure that the links are of relevant topic and you will be fine
i agree with KC...If you think it is more important to those keywords on your index page to ranked then concentrate with it first...use different anchor text for you to target your keywords...after a while go on with the other pages...