PR Theory

I'm new to SEO. Please confirm this or shoot it down. If you have any suggestions, those are welcome too.

Theory:
Say I create a network of about 50 sites, all subdomains on separate c blocks, and then interlink them. Ok, so at first they all have 0 PR, but then I purchase page rank for say 5 of them and get those 5 to around a PR 6. When spidered, the sites with a PR 6 should pass on some PR to the unranked sites, right? Then, once the PR has been passed I quit paying for PR on the 5 sites. Because the network of sites all have PR now (probably around 2-3?) and are interlinked they should keep it?

My reason for doing this is that it is hard to build link partnerships when you have 0 PR.

The PRs on those sites will go down if the PR5 site doesn't link to them anymore.
But you should be able to get some links if your site is PR5.

Sign up with as many directories with high PR as you can for free. A friend's site went to PR6 from 1 link from DMOZ!

eCommando is correct.

Sopratutto, you should read some more articles on Page Rank to get a better understanding of how it works.

Once you take out the source of the PR flowing through your network, the PR for the entire network goes down. That is not to say it will goto PR0 because each page itself has a baseline value but it adds up to very little unless you have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands pages.

I think that an elephant is much more useful than a whole pile of peanuts.

I have built a large site rather than a flock of little ones. Large sites are keyword vacuums and small sites get filtered from my experience.

I disagree with this - when I started out I emailed a few sites that looked applicable and have been searching and doing so ever since. The replies - about 50% emailed back with a "that would be great" and I never heard from the other 50%, that percentage has stayed the same.

No one has ever mentioned PR. PR is largely irrelevant in linking to most webmasters (there are many who do not study their PR). They look at other factors - is the link exchange beneficial (could it drive traffic to my site), is it themed, and for many - Who cares a link is a link!

Sign up for some directories (free ones) and email some themed sites and I am sure you will get results.

Unless your industry is not like that - but even "adult interest" has free directories (I beleive!).

A lot of people are always trying to find ways in life where there is no work involved. For the most part they try to cheat their way through life. All the suggestions above are telling you that shortcuts really are short-lived and not near as effective as doing the work that will achieve your desired result. Building a large relevant site takes work; so does getting proper backlinks. Stop looking for shortcuts and do the work involved. It will be much longer lasting with the results being a thing of pride.

I have read it is best not to totally interlink all sites on all pages. Check out this strategy.

http://www.webpronews.com/insiderre...rkFilter.htm l

I agree entirely with this assessment. Large sites have the potential to become authority sites for their main keywords, and potentially, authorities for other keywords as well.

Larger sites, with many more pages, tend to rank better in the SERPs than smaller sites.

There are more pages in a larger site, to provide numerous entry paths, for your potential clients and customers to arrive into a large site.

Any alleged "large site filters" tend to be aimed more at duplicate content, often found at some affiliate sites. That problem can be addressed, however, by providing even more unique and useful content.

Overall, choose the large site option over some misguided efforts to trick the PageRank algorithm. That idea is, as SEO AM says, merely a lazy attempt at trying to get that mythical free lunch.

A better long term approach to PageRank building is to add more relevant and useful content pages. They will attract incoming natural links, that are probably already themed and relevant to your site.

Shortcuts are rarely a good long term solution. I doubt if they even have much short term value either.

Thank you all for the great advice! I'm reading up on all that I can, for I am faced with an enormous challenge. I just started a job as the SEO for a travel company. They had a lack of qualified candidates apply and decided to hire me because of my experience as a web designer.



I fully understand how competitive my market is and that is why I appreciate your advice from experience.



Any other travel SEO’s out there with tips?



Thanks again,

Sopratutto

Now, there's a few words worth quoting on lots of different themes.

Is there a directory of High PR Directories?

Search This Thing in Google.com where you find tons of high Rank web Directories

The pr of a directory home page has no bearing on the page your link will end up on so it's a bit of a moot point really!

However - if you look through the google directory you'll find sites listed in order of pr so you can simply find the correct categories and work your way down the lists...