Riley_Minnesota
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1. Will a page with a rank directly contribute to your site (which the backlink points to) as long as it is indexed in Google?2. Will a page with a rank contribute to your site if it is not indexed in Google?Quote:So you're saying Relevancy > PageRank?Are you relating this to SERP performance? or PR performance as well.Relevancy is much more important than PR when it comes to increasing your serps. Getting links from unreleated sites will only incrrease your PR, which is of little (or no) use.Links from related sites means google are more likely to see you as an authority in that market (as your competition think your information is worth informing thier visitors about) , It also has the chance of bringing you targeted visitors who are likely to buy your products, or at least bookmark your page.Would a listing from a directory in a category related to your site be considered relevant? Or are directories useless when it comes to relevancy?I'm thinking my best bet is to post to blogs that are relevant to my site. What do you think?Another question -- I have a directory...do you think it's best for me to increase PageRank and then eventually charge for submissions...or try to get ranked in SERPs (is it even likely I a directory would list) and try to make money off ads?Directories would help if you submit to the most fitting catagory.But directory listings are starting to lose any importance they do have, Because it's fairly easy to get a site with poor content listed in a directory.Posting to blogs is the same, It's fairly easy to get your link in a comments section of a blog and most blogs now use a rel="nofollow" attriibute on links so bots don't follow them anyway.The best links are links on related websites that are static hardcoded HTML links.Then blogs that list URLs without the rel="nofollow" should still be valuable then. What if the blog site uses Haloscan...do you think posts are still worthwhile in this case?Thanks for all your replies.Personally i wouldnt waste my time posting on blogs.Even blogs that dont use a rel="nofollow" are still going to be of little valueA one way link hardcoded into a related site is going to be worth 100s more than a link in a blog comment.I guess there's no easy way to go about this...I will have to find relevant sites to do link exchanges with.Any secrets or wisdom you could share?Also, do you have any idea when the next Google update should happen?The only secret is to build a really good site full of usefull information that people want to 1) read and 2) link to.corduroy090 wrote: