[garry22]

The dofollow ratio is starting to look a bit contrived. Maybe a few more nofollows needed?

[V_Purcell]

Vince what is a PR site?

PR is the way Google rates your site, from inbound links to your site. and they assign a ranking 0-10
To get past a ranking of 5 is a tough job to do, most I have managed is to get a site to a PR5

[Mike Halliday]

Vince just for interest could you put a link to a pr 10 website? (Or the highest you've seen)

[Richard Cole]

How can you tell what your site ranks for ?

[garry22]

Vince just for interest could you put a link to a pr 10 website? (Or the highest you've seen)

GOOGLE.COM
YOUTUBE.COM
FACEBOOK.COM
CNN.COM (PR8)

[Steve. Taylor]

EBAY must be up there I would guess

[V_Purcell]

Vince just for interest could you put a link to a pr 10 website? (Or the highest you've seen)

GOOGLE.COM
YOUTUBE.COM
FACEBOOK.COM
CNN.COM (PR8)

It would cost to much to get a PR10, thats if you could find one, I could get a PR9
Apple.com is a 9
Whitehouse.org is a 9
Google.com is a 9

[V_Purcell]

How can you tell what your site ranks for ?

You install a page rank checker into you browser as a plug in, it displays the pagerank, which browser are you using?

[garry22]

If you are using Firefox, you can use SEOquake (search in "Add-ons).

Beware though, figures can be months out of date and there is a nasty practise called fake PR. This is where someone builds a site up using redirects to boost the page rank (prior to a sale). After you have paid an inflated price they take off the redirects and you are left with an expensive low PR site.

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

Vince just for interest could you put a link to a pr 10 website? (Or the highest you've seen)

GOOGLE.COM
YOUTUBE.COM
FACEBOOK.COM
CNN.COM (PR8)

It would cost to much to get a PR10, thats if you could find one, I could get a PR9
Apple.com is a 9
Whitehouse.org is a 9
Google.com is a 9

How do you set about getting a link from above??

[Carpet Dawg]

You can't! It would have to be a sub page (for example, a forum or profile or comment on a blog post) which will have no PR or very low PR but the page will be set to nofollow.

There are websites that rent spaces on their high PR home pages though.

[V_Purcell]

Carpet Dawg is right you couldn't get a link from these sites, and a real genuine PR9 website is going to set you back $8000- $20,000. If you could buy a link, which is against Google's policy you probably would pay $2500 - $4000 and if Google found out that a site was selling links, they would deindex the site, and your link would be worthless

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

Vincent,any links you can advise me to get

[V_Purcell]

What is the url of your website
What keywords will you want to target?

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

Vincent,i have two sites. www.carpetcleanersdublin.ie
                                        www.chem2clean.com

i suppose main keywords would be carpet cleaning Dublin etc

[garry22]

Didn't one of your sites get slapped by Penguin?

If it did, it would have been for over optimisation of anchor text. If you add another (albeit high PR) keyword rich link, you will be on thin ice.

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

yes gary good point...thanks,....carpet cleaning tallaght...its a town of 100.000 in dublin

[V_Purcell]

Vincent,i have two sites. www.carpetcleanersdublin.ie
                                        www.chem2clean.com

i suppose main keywords would be carpet cleaning Dublin etc

You should be using keyword carpet cleaning in dublin, this has more search volume than carpet cleaning dublin, buy carpetcleaningindublin.com which is available through godaddy.com dont buy the .co.uk. Host it with a uk host. Copy the same site as you already have on  the .ie
I see that www.carpetdoctor.ie is #1 with a few links maybe 4 you will beat him

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

coping a site,would google not frown upon that...
yes carpet doctor is number one,but has limited links.hows that???

[V_Purcell]

 www.carpetdoctor.ie only has 10 links from 7 domains, one of them is a PR5, duplicate content is frowned on yes, but there is so much duplicate content out there, take the lyrics for a song, or the declaration of independence, that is duplicate content, but is published thousands of times over on the web. Trust me you will beat him