PR score, Backlink building.

[imacy_ray]

I'm looking to improve one of my sites PR score of 3 to 4. Can anyone suggest how i go about this. I need to link it to sites that have PR of 5 and 6. Most of the ones i know of sell links at very high prices.
Thanks

[Brian Turner]

Quick question - why are you focused on PageRank?

Simply that the Toolbar PageRank values we see are not a significant part of Google's ranking algorithm - you should really be more focused on getting targeted visitors and targeted anchor text than worry so much about PageRank.

[imacy_ray]

Now that is new to me. I tot the higher your PR value the closer you get to google's first page, which will in trun translate to more trageted visitors. Since you are a specialist, pls throw more light on this. Thanks

[Brian Turner]

That used to be the case 10 years ago, but Google have devalued PageRank as a ranking factor since.

To rank on the first page, you need:

1. Decent on-page SEO
2. Links with a variation of anchor text for the keywords you're targeting.

The more established a website is, the easier it is to rank for more competitive keywords.

Hope that helps.

[monaghan]

I've got a site on the 1st page of Google (about 4,100,000 results), this appears to have only a pagerank of 2, so I guess it is not that critical to have a good PR value.

[lishiguang]

Originally Posted by Brian Turner

That used to be the case 10 years ago, but Google have devalued PageRank as a ranking factor since.

To rank on the first page, you need:

1. Decent on-page SEO
2. Links with a variation of anchor text for the keywords you're targeting.

The more established a website is, the easier it is to rank for more competitive keywords.

Hope that helps.

Brian is right. Focus on building the quality of the website structure (on-page SEO, quality internal linking with good use of anchor text) and the quality of content that people love to link to. Quality backlinks and traffic will come in time.

[scene4u]

Relevancy of the site is now more important that Google Page Rank though a good Google Page rank means you are going the right way about your link building even though it is does not directly result in a higher ranking.