Seriously, I vote that the next person who says "get more backlinks" without explaining the types of backlinks worth getting should end up with their genitals stuck in their ears.

BACKLINKS ARE NOT THE UNIVERSAL ANSWER TO ALL SEO PROBLEMS.

It's really simple, as Paul pointed out. Good sites generate the kind of links (actual traffic generating links) that webmasters want. These aren't the low-budget chumpstain throw-a-few-banner-ads-and-little-else sites or the copy-everyone-else's-article-site article sites or any of the other low-grade get-rich-quick-if-rich-equals-about-47-cents-over-a-year sites out there. These are sites that are useful, and original, and actually have something to offer.

Like Paul's site. Take a hard look at it. He has stuff on there that no one else has...why? Because he actually took the time to write it himself. The only tiein to backlinks is that he gets backlinks from real people (including myself) who recognize and appreciate the time and effort he has put into writing quality content that benefits the end user. Those links in turn send him traffic...as in actual users (you know, the same ones most SEOs end up forgetting about because they're so obsessed with rankings). Those users turn around and tell their friends. And so on and so on.

That's the answer. Build something that others feel is worth sharing with others.

Originally Posted by Italos

How to raise you PR fast

Yes PR will DEFINITELY raise you fast:
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedic...com/per+rectum

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Seriously, I vote that the next person who says "get more backlinks" without explaining the types of backlinks worth getting should end up with their genitals stuck in their ears.

The other way's better

Get lots of backlinks from high page ranking sites.....this was what an expert told me.

Originally Posted by willcode4beer

This should be listened to.

For example, http://dojotoolkit.org has a PR of 7. My site http://willcode4beer.com has a PR of 4. Run a google search for "dojo tree" or "dojo tree widget" and the source of the dojo toolkit is at the bottom of the page. My site is at the top.

Why? who knows. But from emails I've received, I think it's because I helped people to understand how to use the widget and the dojo site doesn't.

No directory submission, no article sites. Just simple content, and a little social networking.

Moral of the story, worry about making useful things and forget about PR.

This proves the fact that PR is just a myth and has no impact on rankings. We have seen websites with PR

Originally Posted by g_itworld

Get lots of backlinks from high page ranking sites.....this was what an expert told me.

No expert told you that.

How to get your pr higher is like playing english snooker...easy to start playing with...impossible to master.
Also dont forget that your site may have billions of backlinks, but if the majority of them have nofollow tag (you can be sure that will happen, specially backlinks from high pr sites) its really a hopeless quest. For me Pr is just an illusion to make google even more rich...

Originally Posted by Italos

Hello guys

I have a website of a PR 2


Imy website doesnt show up near top search result except its name


what should i do to raise the PR and make more keywords top?

PR is not a solution for increasing your SERP

normally I submit to the directories and comment some blog

Originally Posted by Italos
Hello guys

I have a website of a PR 2


Imy website doesnt show up near top search result except its name


what should i do to raise the PR and make more keywords top?

So is millions of better sites than yours.
It’s only fair to have sites with good content at the top of the list.


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I personally think PR is totally about smoke and mirrors, think about it. Google is probably one of the most secretive orgs in the world when it comes to anything remotely SEO. So why then do they provide a nice tool in google toolbar to show their score of a website? I think its purely to take peoples eyes off googles real algorithms. Google does a fine job of creating mass dilusions

One side comment, not truly on topic but worth mentioning, stay clear of buying links, google is getting hotter and hotter on it. And if you are selling marketing space, links, banner spots or similar, make **** sure you put NOFOLLOW attribute on the page or links themselves or google WILL penalise your page or site.

have backlinks from sites that have high PR...

create a sitemap in webdirectory

Everything MrCat says - except META Keywords are pretty much irrelevant these days

Define "theme based reciprocal link building" and explain to the rest of us why that isn't just an SEO buzzphrase that you're repeating because some random so-called A-list leader made it up and people follow like sheep, Limtexit.

Link building is the only way to increase your PR. The more incoming link you have , the more PR you will get. Incoming links means links on other websites pointing to your website. I suggest you to do social bookmaking and articles marketing to make incoming links. That ill definately increase your PR. My < link drop removed > SMS Jokes Blog PR is Just increase from 1 to 3.

Just keep working you will get there in the end some sites take longer than others although you could do worse than submit a bunch of articles.

I support statements about qulaity content - there are lots of examples were a low PR site outranks high pr site on some of the keyword based on its knowledge (size and quality of the content) on particular keyword.
At the same time I can give a few examples where the positions in Google are purely built on link and anchor text from inbound links.
Biggest dependency is the competition - the weaker the competing sites the easier it is to get to the top.

Straight to the topic - fastest way to drive pr is increase traffic to the site. The more traffic the higher the pr

Val,
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well, are you even optimizing your site for a certain keyword?? I suggest you read an SEO guide and follow it from start to finish. From keyword research to off-page optimization.

Reciprocal links exchange With high PR will help you to increasing PR on your site.