How many links would you need to rank up in page rank?

[spidersite]

White hat ****

Can 20 website with page rank of 3 make your site rank higher?

[KeriMorgret]

I'd start with our guide to link building at http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo/growing-popularity-and-links and also check out our blog posts about link building at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/category/link-building

[spidersite]

Thank you for your time Keri

Good point ill just build links myself.

Do you have any pointers of what are some better methods ??

[KeriMorgret]

This would not be the best way to go about obtaining links. There is no mention of if the links are relevant, if they are permanent, etc. It does go against Google's guidelines of buying links with the intent to pass pagerank and boost your rankings.

[KeriMorgret]

And remember that the toolbar pagerank reflects the PR of that individual page. Heck, you could have a link from SEOmoz on your profile page that has no PR at all and is no followed and nobody visits it and it won't do you a bit of good.

Also to look at -- are those 20 websites all connected in some fashion? On the same server farm? Have the same footer links? Have the same Google Analytics code? If they're all part of a network, it's really not going to do you any good.

[spidersite]

thank you Bradley for your time 

[spidersite]

Thank you for taking your time to answer this

[Ryan-Bradley]

To follow up with what Steve said, PR doesn't necessarily determine how you rank.  PageRank is determined by how high the PageRank of the other sites that link to you.  So having 20 PR3 sites linking to you won't give you too high of a PR, mostly likely will make it PR3 as well.  Ranking higher has more to do with overall metrics, like Domain Authority, Page Authority, Domain Links, Page Links, Social Signals, Etc..

Here is a great post that explains it better:

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

[SteveTheWoodsman]

Remember, going from PR2 to PR3 is about twice as hard as going from PR1 to PR2.  So there is no "X number of links will get you to the next pagerank level" because each is uniquely harder than the previous.

That said, I have a 8 month old domain name that has maybe 15 external backlinks from PR0-PR3 sites... that domain is currently PR3.  However, I have a 2 year old domain with maybe 200 backlinks from PR0-PR6 sites yet is only has a pagerank of PR2.

Honestly, social engagement does so much more as well as great content.  Plus, find some killer untapped keywords and rank well for them. My 8 month old PR3 site is generating revenue for me yet my 2 year old PR2 site isn't... and its all because of keyword research and rankings.