For a PR3 site with nearly 16,000 inlinks.. what would this do for Search Engine Rankings and the next Google Pagerank update. Is it really all that significant or should I place my efforts elsewhere in terms of site optimization and development. Just looking for some thoughts on the matter.
It depends on your niche, for not popular niche 16000 links is not bad. Do you know how many domains are linking to your domain? It is better to have different domains linking, than just only 1.
The trend with both Yahoo and Google over the last several years has been to assign an increasing amount of importance to quality one-way links as opposed to quantities of irrelevant links. The best possible link to have is a one-way link from a high PR and high traffic website that is in the same field of commercial interest as the website being linked to: i.e. If a website is selling any kind of telecommunications equipment, just one link from Verizon.com would carry a whole lot of weight with Yahoo and Google in terms of their rankings.
Exactly waht everyone else says, its the quality of the links that count. 16k links from 1 site wont do you much good, neither will 16k links from sites that are not in the same niche as yours. Just focus on getting links from sites in the same niche and you should do well.
yahoo count all your sites links also.. and it also count do follow links. I always use yahoo to check links in detail.
I agree quality, relevant links are very important. Especially if you are within a competitive niche.
Well, the possibilities are: PR0, PR1, PR2 or PR3. My blog is a PR3 with 48,000 inlinks and 71,000 pages cached in Google. Don't focus on silly measures - concern yourself with traffic Google and other search engines are bringing you.
Get more links, i would work on writing more articles, squidoo, submitting to directories, the good stuff
Thousands in incoming links do me very well when they are keyword targeted with the anchor text for which I want to rank. It is not the content of the other site, it is just the anchored text. Bompa
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The inlinks can be good for the websites rankings in the long run, especially if the sites have some good content pages as well. After a while, the inlinks become authority votes for the sites themselves.
Thanks, lots of good feedback on that which has been helpful. I'm hoping to reach PR4 the next time around. I'm guessing we'll see another Google PR update around March.
Good to see, but not sure how many links for which niche... i think we all here are talking just from our experience and observations...
Well my site has about 71k of inlinks and 100k+ of google cache and its still showing a pr3 anyone know when the next updates run?
first u need to focus on proper site optimization, no of links is good but quality one would make difference