Like absolutely zero.

Surprisingly, my garbage posts were the ones that got Google’s attention and apparently somebody posted links, then they’ve been on rank 1 on google for almost 2 years now.

Until I decided to buy a domain where my PR dropped to 0 after reaching 4.

My noobie mistake.

As for links showing in webmaster tools, the blog may not have been indexed recently, link may have been removed? comment not approved? webmaster tools just crap(most likely cause)

Back to this little test…

we can do the test on what will get you to number 1, content or links..

just Google up.. Click Here

probably not the definative test you want but gives you a good indication. PR links are not so important for SERPS.. I did tests of my own once and here is what I found..

Page content – useless you can use anchor text links on non related content sites and still improve rankings. (may change if Google decides)

Backlink PR – Good if you want to improve you Page PR but not essential in climbing the SERPS (PR = Page rank not Site rank all articles in directories are actually PR0!)

Blog commenting – effective on .edu or .gov sites still do not seem as “effective”

Fresh content – New pages will keep Googlebot comming back, and fresh daily content will only improve your SERPS if you link internally.. (IE if you have 1000 webpages that all point back to your home page using a nice bread crumb anchor text link you could find yourself ranking rather well there)

One thing that I am yet to truly work out is the keyword density, I managed to get a hub ranked on page one for Search Engine Optimization (broad match) for around a day but the page seems to have “dissapeared” although its still in the index.. I am waiting to see if it raises its head again and settle down.. One thing I do know is Keyword density seems to be playing a “larger role” in the ranking process it once did, however this is most likely down the the LSI Keyword and ranking according to keyword relationships… (either that or I am more of a nerd and like doing confusing things for no reason!)