Your own site’s page rank has very little effect (but still some effect) on your search engine rankings (definitely a lot less than it did even a a year ago). But, page rank does effect search engine placement. The page rank of the pages that your links are on can drastically effect your search engine placement.

The techniques used to increase page rank are the same techniques used to increase your search engine rankings. So while the Page Rank number doesn’t have much effect in the search engine rankings algorithm, what it takes to get higher page rank will help you to get higher search engine rankings.

Just like running laps and doing drills doesn’t win a football game for a team. But, that conditioning and practice are essential to win the football game. One doesn’t cause the other, but you need one to get the other (and sometimes luck plays a part too… finding a brand new niche can help a lot.)

Please don’t just spout off stuff and make general incorrect statements. What works for your niche, your specific keywords, and your specific website, may or may not work for everyone else’s site. I have created enough sites to see that not every method works for every site. From what I’ve seen, you pretty much focus mainly on your one site, which is fine for you, but using what works and doesn’t work as generalizations for everyone isn’t helpful at all to this community of webmasters. If I could work and tweak everyone’s websites personally I would, but I can’t. So, we give general concepts that pretty much work across the board, and people need to take them and try them, and if it’s not working for them, then don’t use it.

The person I learned link building from, and niche marketing from, some of his information (such as minimum number of pages a niche blog needs to rank well) i found out is complete bull. But other tips I learned from him have been worth over $20,000 to me so far in the past 12 months. I took what worked from his site, read elsewhere and took what worked from me there, and developed my own system.

If you’re really trying to help this community (which is beginning to feel as if you’re attacking every single post because you’ve had a negative reply or a corrective statement which contained not truthful information) then please realize that your limited experience doing SEO for one site is exactly that, limited, and therefore everything that has worked for you may not work for everyone else, and just because something didn’t work for you, doesn’t mean it won’t work for everyone else also.

In no way do I consider myself the expert on niche marketing and seo and link building, but at the same time, I’ve had experience with a myriad of sites. Niche sites, and blogs with hundreds of subscribers, and seeing how they are treated in the search engines has given me valuable experience that we are passing onto others.

I am building niche blogs but want each one to be a valuable resource for visitors. What better way to get a return readership to your site by offering your readers a lot to read about or have sources for them as a offline publication would.

Linking the pages for better rank only makes sense and keeps your readers at your site longer and creates new memberships.