Will this help my PR?

[heirJORDAN]

I currently have my main site with a splash page, advertising through word of mouth. I'd like to have a higher PR and I'm wondering if this helps or doesn't do anything at all:

We'll say I own dnforum.com

What I'm doing is, setting up extension "/example" and I'm going to make these public. If I hypothetically have "dnforum.com/example/firstexample"; "dnforum.com/example/secondexample"... and so on, does this help dnforum.com - in any way with search engines?

Let me know if I need to explain it better.

[microdude431]

Is this a certain script your using? Sounds like your referring to SEO Friendly URLs. Most scripts have them or mods available.

[heirJORDAN]

No. I have a lot of articles to archive that I'm publicly sharing. So instead of say...

"dnforum.com/forums"

It'll probably be

"dnforum.com/archive"

Blah blah "dnforum.com/archive/examplehere"...

So that leads to my question of, does this help my main site's page ranking? (example: dnforum.com)

[DeenChen]

I think it will do

[coast]

I remember reading something about this with technorati links. If you are using that service, you might want to check out support.technorati.com to see if there are any posts about this.

If I'm not mistaken, technorati links can also help your PR.

[BuyAuthority]

The best way to get ranked is using a SILO structure and LSI concept. Its a deep concept that Google loves and can easily get your site to rank for whatever keyword you use. I cannot discuss it here but I can share a website in which has given me the structure to design any website the right way.

[Liquiteq]

Originally Posted by heirJORDAN

I'd like to have a higher PR and I'm wondering if this helps or doesn't do anything at all

Pagerank is a funny old thing. High pagerank brings the benefit of a high frequency of crawling, but if the external links aren't of high quality and relevancy, it won't bring any kind of magic rankings on it's own. A good indication of this is a site that doesn't display any backlinks in Google, dispite it's moderately healthy pagerank.

It really doesn't take hundreds of links to acheive rankings, it simply takes a few good ones. A well targeted PR2 site can outrank a lesser PR5 site on the basis of link quality alone, trust me, I do it on a daily basis.

Originally Posted by heirJORDAN

I currently have my main site with a splash page

Ouch, you need to ensure that you have some quality content on this page. Most inbound links will be indicating that this is the most important page on your site, and you need to treat it that way. This page should be informative, of a healthy size (in terms of indexable content), and give a clear impression of what your site is about.

Originally Posted by heirJORDAN

What I'm doing is, setting up extension "/example" and I'm going to make these public. If I hypothetically have "dnforum.com/example/firstexample"; "dnforum.com/example/secondexample"... and so on, does this help dnforum.com - in any way with search engines?

Yes. What we are talking about here is called Semantic structuring. Semantics are absolutely vital to illustrating the relevance between categories, topics, and pages. They ofcourse influence your internal link schema at the same time.

This needs to be done "tastefully", as I always say. Logic is the key here. Hierarchical structuring can be well explained by the theory of taxonomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy

*Be careful not to stuff keywords
*Use hyphens ( - ) not underscores ( _ ) to conjoin words.
*Try to be efficient, and keep as close to root as you can (where possible)
*Ideally, each parent dir should link to it's child dirs - this isn't always possible.

Is this a certain script your using? Sounds like your referring to SEO Friendly URLs.

If this is a script that you're using, you will need to create url aliases for each part of the query string.

[cursal]

nice breakdown Liquiteq

[hostele]

Liquiteq has everything covered but I will put in an easy way to understand.

If these internal pages are linking to your main page "dnforum.com" then it would get a pagerank.

[fpforum]

Flash isn't very friendly to SE's. If you want to raise your pagerank it comes down to 1 thing, inlinks. Get people to link to your site and your pagerank will go up.