Okay, so I recently got a new website on the go I have quite a few questions though unfortunately. First of all what I did was I 301 redirrected a PR2 website to my new website, and the domain was over a year old (try to avoid the sandbox) Secondly I began collecting links with valid anchor text, but I am trying to only collect high PR links, but that is not always the case and I am finidng that the more higher PR inlinks I collect, it also comes with a swarm of PR0, PR1 links. See chart: Google PageRankTM Links: PR 0: 171 PR 1: 37 PR 2: 9 PR 3: 7 PR 4: 3 PR 5: 0 PR 6: 0 PR 7: 1 PR 8: 1 PR 9: 0 PR 10: 0 Now I am trying to keep out of the sandbox by collecting links gradually and not spamming out a whole bunch of links within a short duration of time. SO I have a few questions about my next step basically. Is it a bad idea to have too many low PR sites linking to you, does this affect your SERPs? Does each page require backlinks for SERPs? Will the website avoid the sandbox since it is being redirrected from an older .com via 301 redirrect? does it matter if I should wait on collecting backlinks, or just get as many as possible? does the quality of the backlink(PR rating) count? as long as it is relevant content? Does the amount of pages of content affect the websites PR? will a site with 1000 pages have a better PR and SERPS than a site with 100 pages? how many targeted keywords should I have for anchor text? do I need quality backlinks (with anchor text) for each page? more questions coming...thanks for all your answers in advance.
I do not have the answers to all your questions and hope that someone can add on to it: 1. I do not see a problem of having many low PR sites linking in. Every relevant backlink will help in SERP. 2. Yes, you will need backlinks in order to rank well in search engines especially for Google. 3. The PR of the inbound link counts and it contributes to your page's importance. 1 high PR link is far more useful than several low PR ones.. 4. The PR of the main page of a 1000 pages site is slightly higher than the PR of the main page of a 10 page site (assuming all sub pages link to the home page regardless of other external factors). 5. How many targeted keywords in the anchor text depends on what is the most relevant description for that landed page. 6. You can go ahead and attract as many inbound links as soon as possible. Google does not index all the webpages at the same time. Some sites may be indexed soon after the link was put up but some may take up to a month before that link is counted as your backlink. Hope it helps a bit
Low PR back links help, otherwise it looks unnatural. I recommend no more than 30 links per month - otherwise it looks unatural! If the links come from relevant sites, all the better! More pages the better, as long as each page has unqiue interesting content. This will increase your chances of someone linking to you. I have had 1 page web sites on the first page of google and 100 page web sites on the first page - I think Google doesn't care, they are more interested in high qulaity relevant content - if thats on 1 page then great, if thats on 100 pages then great. Think of the users with this point. Always use the anchor text where poss, but I would recommend changing the anchor text a little bit so it looks natural. Also - Try and build links to more than one page if you can. Studying your competition will help see what they are doing right, you just need to do it better! These are just my thoughts. I'm keen to read other peps opinions. Good luck with your site!
Good for you that you are not spamming, but if you are creating links manually you can do it as fast as you like. Imagine a hot story that hits the news. It will spawn tens of thousands of manually generated links in only a day or two. So if you create a few hundred a day no worries.
Lots of good answers here, Just a bit of a follow up with a few new questions: I am thinking of makinga page that is only one page and all the links on the page would change the content of the one page, so lets say I click on a link that says "links", it would then generate a new page based on content retrieved from a database to generate links. The main page would stay constant, but the content would change. I am wondering if you have to make brand new pages for each selection of content, or if you can generate different content in the same page, and each set of content will get indexed...
The real question is, what content are you building that would warrant links? What content on your site would you personally link to without request if you found it on a different site? If the answer is none, you will never go anywhere.