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[awall19]

Directories work

also so people are hesitant to trade until you have some page value


usually your competitors will not link to your site
dowload google toolbar with adavanced features
find out who links to your competitors
and try to get links from them

most any system in the world is biased toward what it knows. for google to be heavily biased to your brand new site would undermine its entire system

[darciusrex]

How good are your persuasion skills?

If you find someone with a site in a cat that's similiar to yours and you know over time with a quality site and more links you'll build PR, you could convince them to believe in your site as you do to get links. I know it sounds a little Pollyanna, but there are some folks who'll link regardless of pagerank based on the quality of your site.

A good site is a good site; eventyally it will build a dencent rank, IMO

[mcanerin]

Also I think you are forgetting something.

Google sorts things twice. (well, it's more complicated, but this is close)

First, it chooses the sites that match the users query. Relevance.
Second, it sorts those results by PR. Popularity.

If your site is the most relevant for the search, then it will be number one. Even if it's PR is 0.

Only if there are other sites that are also relevant will your PR matter.

Of course, that's the simplified version. In practice you need some backlinks. but you are wrong if you think PR 4 or above are the only ones that matter. Even a several PR1 or 2 links will help. Just because they don't show up on the links: search doesn't mean they are not being counted.

And remember this - if you have truly quality information, pretty soon sites will be coming to YOU for links

Get linked by as many on topic sites as you can - ignore the PR for now.
Keep your quality high and current. The rest will follow.

Ian