High PR Idea

So it seems the sites that have real high PR7,8,9 are the sites that are informational. They have a bunch of links to them since they are ssssoooo informative. Plus they are placed in the major directories.

Why don't we just create a big informative web site. Once it gets a High PR. The big informative site can then link to all of our sites.

I have been thinking about building a site that shows people how to do things related to the products that I sell - also posting a few resources for educators that they can link to for student use (school and university websites frequently have impressive PR)

Also writing a few perl scripts to take the hard math out of a few things related to my product line. I think that would really draw the links.

I would also post product reviews that go beyond the information provided anywhere else - even on the website of the producer - I already have these done but they are on another domain - I'd have to move them because I don't want to duplicate.

This would get me lots of high quality inbound links. I have a great domain name on server and am working on site design (the most difficult of this for me) - I want to do this right and find a good linking structure that will drive PR to my product pages but not make the educational pages commercially offensive.

lol good idea.. who will be designing this etc

I'll write all of the content - I am like ten pounds of stuff in a five pound bag when it comes to that. I'll write the perl scripts and do the e-commerce myself... I will likely hire someone to make a few graphics - nothing fancy, just a couple logos and and a design set of bars and essential buttons. That type of work takes me waaaayyyyy to long and I never like what I do myself.

I can do graphics

The educational idea is right on target. The other day I ran across 4 personal websites of University students or recent grads that had PR7's. The backlinks showed that they were linked from a popular software program through a University. Also, Math sites have real high PR.

What can I do to help?

I'm in... Not too good at writting new contant but I have a lot of good stuff already on my site. Private me for more ino.

Why don't we just create a big informative web site. Once it gets a High PR. The big informative site can then link to all of our sites.

That's DMOZ.ORG isn't it?

Well I like to look at things from the perspective of what is the reaosn why a webmaster would open his/her html editor and add a link to my site.

You can divide this up into different groups really...

1. Unique content on theme (Not necessarily good content).
2. Community that webmaster participates in (this place for example).
3. Quality content (authority sites with quality content).
4. Theme ressource finder (Consolidated thematic links, well designed directories).
5. Friends and family sites (of course)
6. If paid to link (of course) :-)

I think covers the main reasons for a webmaster to make the effort.

The hard part is getting your site to match any of the 6. Creating a forum is astart. Lots of free forum scripts out there. Unique content isnt so easy and requires a fair bit of thought. But if you think long and hard about what is needed on the web for your theme, and that hasnt already been done, you can have yourself a unique feature. (My unique btw. was the SEM quiz, could your theme have a quiz made for it?? ) .

You can of course create your own diorectory/consolidated resource pages that truly only link to the top sites, and is extremely user friendly and contains not just links but perhaps rankings and reviews.

As for an authority site... Well, you do need to know your stuff and be prepared for a lot of hard graft, but its within the vast majority of webmasters that apply themselves to it and have the experience and know-how of their given theme.

As for paying for text links. You have to be careful with this but there is no law against it . The best way to do this is to approach not sites that already sell text links, but high pr sites that have yet to cotton on to the power of links and currently have no advertisement. Do be sure however the pages are relevant and the site linking to you is a quality site. One mans pagerank manipulation is anothers paid advertising.