I have a few links to sites with 0 PR. They have been on my site for a couple of months. Do I ditch them? Or do I only ditch them if I think they are standing still?

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Are these sites linking back to you? These sites could one day end up being a PR5+...

even if they dont make higher PR's, if your doing your job correctly with regards to the anchor text, then any link is worth having even if it is a low PR. (within reason of course, link farms etc are a big no no!)

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yep, they are linking back... could you take a look at my links page and tell me what you think? I am reading lots here about 'back links' etc, but am not to sure how to apply it

http://www.trinitymarine.co.uk/webcontent2.htm

another question for you, would it benefit me to have some PR5 links on my homepage?

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ok, your links page looks fine - if you have links from most of the pages that are on that page then thats good because most of them are of a 'Nautical' theme.

Links to your site (backlinks) are essentially a vote from their web site to yours. The text that is used in those links (anchor text) is a vote for those terms. So for you it would be best to get links pointing to your site with the anchor text as 'Nautical Antiques' or 'Marine Collectables' for example, thus casting votes to your pages for those terms.

Placing links on your homepage to PR5 sites is'nt really of benefit to you. If they are a great source of info for your visitors then that gonna help them but as far as SEO goes whats more important is to get links pointing towards your site.

I hope this makes sense - theres lots of info here about backlinks and also jocelyn has just been made a moderator of these forums and is doing a great job of providing info on backlinks and more in the Newbies Forum

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basically a 'back link' is a link coming from a URL different to your own, leading to your domain. got it.

thanks for your patience - I know this stuff, but am new to the terminology that is being used...

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Pr 0 links are still usefull for sure. Even if they don't end up being a PR 5 they will still be found as long as google is spidering the domain and finding your backlink. I also believe that having a good spread of links coming back from PR 0 and up websites are better than just having a few pr 4's and up, it looks more natural to have the spread than to have only 4's and higher.

Hey no probs. I just had a brain burp and it spat out all that info I dont intentionally mean to talk to you as a noob - It can be quite hard to tell the level of knowledge peeps have around here so tried to explain it so that anyone reading knows whats goin on.

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Thats a great explanation GByte and it is always best to answer posts catering to the lowest common denominator because the person who asked the question might be able to understand more advanced lingo but the thousands of other people that may read the post might now get it, so clear plain english and a little extra explaining is never a bad idea :-)

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Oh yeah and Onlyz one other thing regarding linking "from" your site. There is a benefit to it, but not how you are looking at it. your concerned with the PR of the site, when in fact you should be concerned with the "authority" of the site.

That actually helps you in your ranking, by showing that you are not only a resource for kw "X" but you also recognize and link to other helpful resoureces about keyword "X".

I do this myself if you look at the index page of www.seo-guy.com I link to http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html andits not because its a PR 9, its because I am assuming google will consider that link an authority on SEO and thus recognise my ability to identify it as an authority and share it with my visitors

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ok, that makes sense! I am starting to look at this a different way now...

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