“MY PR IS BIGGER THAN YOURS.”

We all have to start somewhere. And with a new site, that’s right at the bottom. No PR at all. You approach site after site seeking those link exchanges. Barely anyone replies, and those who do gloat about their PR and how they couldn’t possibly exchange links with you because it will hurt their PR.

Here are a few email exchanges I’ve had which illustrate the point. I’ve not inserted the entire emails to “protect the innocent” shall we say. ======================================================== Its not possible to add your site in xxxxxxx.com, the reason is that it’s our primary site. So we are unable to place your site on our primary site. We can place your link only on xxxxxxx.com as mentioned earlier. Please let us know if you are O.K with it.
======================================================== ======================================================== I am D**** and I am affiliated with the site xxxxxxx.net. I also work with a great site: xxxxxxx.com which has a PR7 and very interesting inside pages too. If you feel you can exchange links with me let us know, I will upload your link on my good PR link page in xxxxxx.net. In return, I expect a good PR link page from you......
======================================================== ======================================== Yeah, I'm taking about a front page link exchange. But since your sites are PR 3 then I have offered 1 PR 4 in exchange to 2 PR 3. Be know that a link from a site PR 4 is more profitable then a link from a site rank 3 and that is why I have offered you 1 link from xxxxxxx.com
======================================== See the pattern here – do you think the webmasters above have Page Rank Paranoia? Ultimately, they refused link exchanges with my “humble” PR3 sites because I’m just not worthy enough – even though my poor little PR3 sites have a way higher search engine results ranking.

A couple of my current PR3 sites were once PR4. Does it bother me? Absolutely not. Because they still attract good traffic, my niche mailing lists increase in size every day and that hasn’t been affected by the reduced PR.

Next I’ll tell you about my “humble” PR3 sites and let you see the screen shots which show those sites in the #1 position for key word searches. In later chapters, I’ll tell you how I did it. And all without suffering from Page Rank Paranoia!