A Link From A Website With A PR1 Could Give You More PageRank Than A PR6 Website

It is believed that the way to get a high PageRank (PR) is to get quality websites with high PR scores to link to you, thereby increasing your PR by “sharing” theirs.

It is believed that the way to get a high PageRank (PR) is to get quality websites with high PR scores to link to you, thereby increasing your PR by “sharing” theirs. This is a great theory, however, it’s slightly more involved than that.




Now before you tear your hair out wondering what now, think about this.

Why? Well, several reasons, first of all it’s usually easy to convince these sites to link to you. Secondly, you can probably get them to put your link on their home page rather than a links page. Third, they rarely have many other links to share their PR with you. Fourth, their home page will have a lot of on-topic keywords that make it a valuable link in the eyes of Google. Fifth, you can usually get them to link to you using a keyword phrase in the link. Incoming links that don’t contain your keyword phrase don’t help you. And finally, chances are good they’re not going to be unknown or low PR sites forever; and as their PR increases, so does yours. 





But don’t bother with sites whose PageRank bar is either white, or worse, gray.

Still skeptical? Well let’s do a little math, shall we? A link from a page that has a PR=2 and has 5 outgoing links (one of those going to your site) would give you a PR boost of 2 divided by 5, which is about 0.4. A page with a PR8 and having 200 outgoing links would give you a PR boost of 0.04 (8 divided by 200). That’s 10 times more PageRank boost from the low PR website. So, what are you waiting for»  Get busy finding those links!