I have a blog that gets a lot of backlinks. People link directly to stories on a daily basis (cool) but NOBODY links to the homepage. Checking google for links (ie: link:www.A.com) shows I have like 3, but I know there are hundreds out there linking directly to stories. So, how does PR work? do I need links to the homepage to get PR on the homepage? or will this trickle down to the homepage? I'm assuming that the links to the stories give them PR and my homepage becomes a secondary link? Just curious. I was expecting some PR love after the last update but got nada. Google sends us healthy traffic everyday so it's odd to me we didn't see something. Looking for some perspectives...
Do you with each of your blog post that are getting linked get linked back to the home page? Definitely linking each blog back to your home page with "more interesting blogs follow here" or somethign catchy might be a good way to build the home link stronger.
Rather than concentrating on PR, think of developing methods to monetize the search traffic that comes to your site. Their conversions would be more helpful in revenue generation than a mere good PR. As regards PR, just getting backlinks is not enough. They should be generated from a higher PR websites, to pass you good juice. It is alright if they link to your posts directly, but it is essential that their own page should be well-ranked. Regards, RightMan
If you need to increase PR, you must focus to get backlinks from high PR pages with dofollow links, that's an important one way link building service to improve PR.
If you are already getting lots of organic deep links to your site than half your backlinking work is dont for you! To get backlink links to your home page I suggest adding it to your forum signatures and posting comments on dofollow blogs.
Keep in mind that Pagerank is a measure of the popularity of a single page, not the site as a whole. Your homepage will get the benefit of some link juice being passed from the posts and will probably still be ok in terms PR.