You should consider both pagerank and backlinks as important factors for getting link. The best choice is to get links from both kind of sites.
Sweely's right. Article marketing isn't what it used to be. 1. Most article marketing sites either give you a nofollow link or they're flagged by Goolge, so either way they don't pass page rank. 2. Even if your article gets republished by a number of sites, content that's flagged by Goolge as duplicate content doesn't pass PR. Do follow commenting is probably not very good anymore either. SERP are always changing... Using old techniques that no longer work is like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer. Here's some basics: 1. Links that actually drive traffic pass more PR juice than links that don't--this helps Google filter spam linking. 2. Links higher up on a page pass more links than those at the bottom. 3. Less outbound links as someone else mentioned pass more Google juice to you. 4. If you build up a bunch of links quickly on a new domain that don't result in a corresponding increase in web traffic, there's a good chance you'll get flagged by Google as a spam site. 5. Link relevance is important as the guy above mentioned. You need links for sites that cover similar topics. 6. Domain age is important for ranking. Some say more than others, but if your site is less than 2 months old, it's very hard to rank well organically. Usually you need at least 6 months before a site will rank easier. I don't know if you're promoting a static web page or a blog. For blogs, you need a lot of good content to generate links. Social media links don't pass PR usually, but they can help with traffic. SEO Greywolf did a recent study on a new domain. He managed to get blog posts made popular on Digg/Stumble upon etc with huge waves of traffic. Unfortunately, he found that this didn't result in many natural links in spite of this. His conclusion is that people don't link like they used to. Most of my natural links on my blogs come from low-quality spam sites that are just abusing pingbacks to get some traffic.
Yes it adds up, but don't forget that links from authority site will give more boost to your ranking.
Quality back links depends upon your keywords and website traffic.google followed some methods to give back like visitors,useful content,search volume.. Do some do follow blog commenting and forum posting to get quality back link.
Here is a nice article I wrote about the subject, you should check it out: 10 simple ways to get backlinks to your site I hope that was helpful
That's not necessarily true. I've seen sites with PR3 link and only 15 - 40 backlinks. They just have high quality backlinks. So which is more beneficial? Links from sites with lots of backlinks to them or high PR?
Quality backlinks can be built by doing social bookmarking, Press Release Distribution, Craigslist submissions. Affiliate programs are also good for getting more visitors (and buyers) and for building quality back links.you can offer to interested sites RSS feeds for free. When the other site publishes your RSS feed, you will get a back link to your site and potentially a lot of visitors, who will come to your site. The benefits of having back links are many – the more links a website has coming into it, the more authoritive and popular it looks to the search engines. If more dofollow blogs pointing back to your website there may be the chance of getting higher rank in search engine.
Here is a secret, do a press release. a real one, not a spam one, as they are manually approved to www.dbusinessnews.com it is a PR5 site that has 1700 rss feeds off it. Your press release will get picked up all over the place.
Yeap, and in addition you can add that page with your Press release to social bookmarks and get even more visitors.