I have an extremely new site, just started on seo and i got a PR8 link, totally 100% relevent to my items. How do you tell how much it helps? Is there a tool? Being new, im excited and just keen to know.....indexed but not ranked, im just plodding away. Im amazed at the tools you can get and thats why im asking. Looking around for links, im amazed at all the great sites that i didnt notice before. Some are so interesting, it will takes weeks to checkem all out. Thanks in advance for any answers.
Put this link to new site and you'll be in sandbox IMHO. Better will be get some organic links and then get so strong link.
A change in your site's PR you will only notice after months or so - and it doesn't tell you very much. What you should see much earlier, however, is an improvement of particular KW rankings in the KW-Tracker. And that's the important thing. This will depend on which anchor words your backlinks are pushing forward - and only for those you may expect improvement.
Thats good....so it will help. Im not chasing crappy links, just ones relevent to my field and with good page ranks. You would have to be an idiot to buy from a link farm and i have spent way too much time and money building the site, to spoil it now. Ive aimed at backlinks and have done reciprocal links at all. Will be slow going but eventually, it should become self feeding.
I think the only way to really know what that PR8 will do for you is to watch the traffic and make a judgment. My opinion is that it will be of great help,but it's not going to make you rich... But you do need others as well.