buying pr6 and consequences

I have been offered for a fee of course to buy a link with pr6. The site I
have worked on is brand new http://zwrites.com and has not been spidered
by google. (I have to many outbound links and those will be taken off.)
Back to my question-- As I move forward and grow the number of sites
pointing to our site, reciprocal links, and we decide or they decide to NOT
point at our site--will our PR automatically drop? From what I have
gathered from this ng, is that traffic and pr dont go hand in hand.

Articus wrote:

I have been offered for a fee of course to buy a link with pr6. The
site I have worked on is brand new http://zwrites.com and has not
been spidered by google. (I have to many outbound links and those
will be taken off.) Back to my question-- As I move forward and grow
the number of sites pointing to our site, reciprocal links, and we
decide or they decide to NOT point at our site--will our PR
automatically drop? From what I have gathered from this ng, is that
traffic and pr dont go hand in hand.

What you need are backlinks that matter, i.e. that contain keywords you
target, from related sites, which people (and spiders) will read. If
they have a high PR, even better, but don't overestimate this. Build
your site for your readers, and not for Google.


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On 10 Oct 2003 07:29:36 GMT, "Philipp Lenssen" <info (AT) outer-court (DOT) com>
wrote:

What you need are backlinks that matter, i.e. that contain keywords you
target, from related sites, which people (and spiders) will read.

You are right about the backlinks with the right anchor text, but
there is no information that I've stumbled across that remotely
suggests google is theming links right now.

So currently there is no benefit to having links from related sites
relative to non related sites. So if you can get a decent PR link from
a non related site with good anchor text seriously consider taking it.

That said all other things being equal a related link is always better
than non related since you may get some quality traffic from it
directly as well.

If
they have a high PR, even better, but don't overestimate this. Build
your site for your readers, and not for Google.

Not much point having a great site, if you have no visitors. You have
to strike a balance, but unless you have an alternative source of
visitors Google has to come first.

David
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Search Engine Placement Tips (updated 31/08/2003)
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SEO Dave wrote:

On 10 Oct 2003 07:29:36 GMT, "Philipp Lenssen" <info (AT) outer-court (DOT) com
wrote:

What you need are backlinks that matter, i.e. that contain keywords
you >target, from related sites, which people (and spiders) will
read.

You are right about the backlinks with the right anchor text, but
there is no information that I've stumbled across that remotely
suggests google is theming links right now.

I was talking about links wich _people_ read as well. People usually
come across page X from page Y because the two pages share a common
theme, i.e. page X is about boats and page Y two and the user is
interested in boats. Anything else are linking schemes which should be
ignored at best. Wether or not search engines do that at the moment is
not what I would care about. And it is indeed possible that Google now
or soon will analyze keywords surrounding the actual link text.

If
they have a high PR, even better, but don't overestimate this. Build
your site for your readers, and not for Google.

Not much point having a great site, if you have no visitors. You have
to strike a balance, but unless you have an alternative source of
visitors Google has to come first.

PageRank is nice to have, for sure. But I'm taking the exact opposite
approach. Get your visitors first by putting up good content (in
meaningful HTML) and telling relevant people (with relevant sites). The
rest will come naturally, like a good PageRank on Google. It's not
something to target itself, it's just a side-effect. Or if you're
looking at it from a commercial point of view, then the return of
investment of visitors who arrive at your site (those that buy
something, or click on ads) is all that matters.

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