I have a goal to increase the Page Rank of my main site. So I know one thing that will help me is a lot of inbound links. I am working on building up some filler web sites that link to my main site. But the question is how should these links be arranged? Do I just need thousands of random pages directly pointing to my main site? I suspect this may help, but optimal gains will require a different configuration.
Now I will confess that I do not know the innards of the Page Rank algorithm used by the Big Boys like Google. But I have some theories. The whole scene reminds me of Yahoo chess. In the Yahoo games environment, you are given a score. It goes up when you win games. And down when you lose them. Some boring cheaters created 2 accounts, and let one of their accounts win all the time. But that only got them so far. Each win counted less and less towards boosting up their top account. After a while the wins against the second account seemed to be of no use.
There was a breakthrough idea that you could chain together a number of bogus accounts. The first account would always lose to the second. The second account would always lose to the third. And so on. If you had a total of 15 accounts, and you let the accounts play each other in a controlled fashion, you could do wonders. The trick was that each account would only play the other accounts directly below and above them. That way each win/loss had the most effect. And the overall effect of the many accounts was multiplied.
How does this apply to Page Rank? My theory is that if each page can pass on a little rank to another, there must be a way to set up the links between many pages to optimize the final page you wish to get the big Page Rank. And the idea will follow the chess rating boosting. Let the lowest level pages link to your second level pages. And the second level pages link up to the third level pages. And so on up to you main page which could be level 15. My hope is that these chained links will have a snowball effect and maximize the passing on of rank. I am willing to give this a try. If you find my Software Maintenance web page at the top of the SERPs, you will know I am doing something right.
