man, its obvious you didn’t bother reading the article. Read myth #1… the whole point of the article is that PR does not mean SEO, that its not a real indicator of anything, and you shouldnt waste your time on it.

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My first time here.. and I love the blog! I’m subscribed!

PR itself inherits slowly? I can assure you that it is not as long as a couple months. Are you sure you are not thinking of the pagerank export, which is different than *real* pagerank? Real pagerank is on a continuous scale, not discrete (i.e. my PR could be 4.22), and is updated as fast as the google algorithm can get around to it.

I also can point out that the point of getting your article on the front page of digg is not the immediate pagerank from being on the front page of digg for a day. It is the surge of traffic resulting from it (good or bad), and *then* the number of bloggers who are likely to then link you and make comments on the article/page on their own blog, giving you many backlinks. I’ve had pages (with no other promotion) make the front page of digg, and on next PR update end up with PR5. I’m sure there are better examples, depending on who picks you up and blogs about you, but it is a huge force to be reckoned with. It is natural, well behaved ranking, and really quite worthwhile. Too bad Digg is notoriously hard to push your own stuff to the front page without some help from the ‘digg mafia’ (usersubmit and others) (actually i think the ‘digg mafia’ refers to another digg group, but thats ok)

To Micah et all. Yes, there are doubtlessly sites out there with less than 10k links that have PR7, but as you said, they have PR8,9,10 backlinks. These articles usually assume you only have PR2-3-4 backlinks, and only like 100 of them or less. That is my main point. If you can get 2PR 10 backlinks, and only those 2 links.. yea, you might have pr7-8, but it isnt the norm.

To Andy Beard, I never said niche sites werent valuable and to put them into one mega site… I hope you were not saying I was suggesting to do so. Niche sites are good, but 1 page sites as the only thing on a domain… might as well just make a site with niche pages. That isnt ‘combining into a mega domain’ but merely just not wasting your time. SERP and pagerank are by indivdual page. SERPs might have keyword weighing by domain, but i think it is primarily by content on an indidual page. Any thoughts?

What’s the difference between links and backlinks?

Greetings from Germany!
Stefan

So when you get a link in DMOZ, you automatically get a link from high PR page in Google and probably hundreds smaller sites.

That’s the power of DMOZ.

In my opinion – true or false? – the only person who can set backlinks is the site owner himself. With trackbacks, pings or by publishing his articles on Social Networking Sites.

If I’m wrong: What’s the difference between links and backlinks?

Greetings,
Stefan

I do believe in the value of authority sites in larger more complex niches, but there still is a place for small sites, especially if you are driving traffic to them not just through natural search but also various forms of paid advertising.

PageRank does have a purpose and can be controlled / managed / cultivated and has a lot more purpose than just for advertising.

Imagine 10,000 passionate or angry bloggers linking to your article or page!