hi all , I see mention of PR web sites. I assume there is a way to check what PR rating your site is, but what do one need to do? what is Page Rank Thanks
From google PageRank Explained PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Page rank is a way of google giving the pages of your site a score. This is a high view description and the actual factors that rank your pages are quite complex. To check page rank you can download the google toolbar for firefox or IE. THere are also a number of websites that you enter the sites address and it will give you the page rank. Now some people here also talk about Press Release websites and for short call them PR sites. Does this help?
http://www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html this will help you with what page rank is. And here's a tool to check PR for websites. http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/pagerank-lookup/