[Edwin]

Originally Posted by jcorkern

believe me, he will need several thousand top quality links for pr 4 with his targreted phrases. They are all national level keywords and pr will be slow to build.

If he was targeting local levels, he could do it with a few hundred, but on a national level, he will need much more.


Fabric - Blinds - Lamps - Mirrors - Interior Decorating - Home Decor - Area Rugs - Comforters - Curtain Rod - Sculpture - Fur - Fabric Store is showing 33 k links in yahoo and between 9 and 14 k links for "home decore" and the quality of their links is not to shabby.

It's about the quality of the backlinks and yes, naturally combined with the amount of those quality backlinks it will result in a certain PR score.

The example of interiormall.com that you brought forward shows a incorrect number.
You made a wrong Yahoo backlink search, you need to exclude the backlinks from the domain interiormall.com
Like so:

linkdomain:www.interiormall.com -site:www.interiormall.com

This will give you 2,200 backlinks as a result. Not the 33k results you provided.

But then again it's not a number race, it's a quality of topical backlinks race.

Find better links, relevant topical links and your PR will increase, and it doesn't matter if there are an x amount of competing sites.

But for the sake of analysis, let's say he gets 5 times better links, he will still need over 2 k links minimum for PR 4 (same PR of the site analyized).

How did you come up with that number?
Again it's not a number race.

Here is a pr3 site with between 3 and 8 k links Home Decorating Ideas - Decorating Tips for Apartment - Home - Studio - Dorm - Rental Decorating Digest same keywords.

This is not an easy target for a beginner in SEO.

1-10 of 1,840 for linkdomain : www . rentaldecorating . com - site : www . rentaldecorating . com

And the number of backlinks is not what's important - it's the quality thus topical relevance that is important combined with the number of those topically relevant backlinks.

And striving for a high PR is not an objective to strive for, you can have your high PR and I'll settle for #1 position

I mean, you're not going to say that in order to get a better position in the results that you would need to have a better PR then the sites/pages you're up against