Having high PR is not going to put you on search engine result pages. Having SEO'd pages is. High PR means Googles thinks your links from and too your site are relevant. Having high PR means when you ask someone to share links, especially someone with lots of traffic, SEO'd pages, someone that has taken the time to make sure their site performs well, you get a much higher percentage of people say yes. Then you have a lot of pages that link to your site that each have a lot of traffic. You have a greater opportunity to get traffic to your site. If the links (back links) to you are from similar type sites then your traffic will be more targeted. So, in effect, having high PR can bring you more targeted traffic, but, it will not increase your SERP ranking.

PR is all about who links to  you. Full stop. No links, no PR.

To get any PR you need link partners. So, you either go to blogs, forums, social networking sites, etc.. and post comments, articles, reviews and/or  help people on the sites OR go ask for links and offer links back to select websites. This article will deal solely on contacting websites and asking if they want to exchange links.

What Is A Good Link Partner:

• Look for sites that use the same keywords or keyword phrases that your site does.
• Check their PageRank and make sure it's OK or higher than yours.
• Check to see if the page their links are on is accessible from the their site's first page of the domain. On this page look at the source code and makes sure this is not in the meta tags.
• Check who they are linking too. Keep away from sites that link to tobacco, drug, alcohol, gambling or adult sites. Well, if you are one of those sites then that is exactly who you want to link too. So make sure you know who your link partners are linking too.
• when linking to them make sure you use a natural phrase using your keywords in the anchor text linking to them.
• When they link to you make sure they use a natural phrase using their keywords in the anchor text back to you.

That's it. At this point you are poised to have increased PageRank the next time Google releases an updated PR which is around 3 times a year.

Now that you have links you need to :

• review them every month
• check to make sure your link is still on their page
• then check their links to make sure they are not linking to any of the bad neighbour websites.

If you follow this simple guide you will get high PR.

Thanks for reading my post.

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