Due to the rough scale of PageRank, outdated toolbar PageRank scores, hand editing of toolbar PageRank, and a variety of other factors, it is somewhat hard to get confirmation from Google if a link source passes PageRank. The slow way to test is to make 1 link be the only link you point at a site and then let it age for a few months. Then, if a toolbar PageRank score appears it probably passed PageRank.
If you are competing on the competitive parts of the web, building only one link...
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Right after I finished writing a post about how being likeable is a great business strategy, I went back to Sphinn and saw it erupted with controversy and negative feedback about SEOmoz's Linkscape. Since then threads have been open, closed, and open. People are worried about everything from the index size to how to remove your site to why you shouldn't label your site with an obvious SEO footprint.
So my timing on that last post was a bit off, but I still think the general...

We spend a lot of time thinking about how to get visitors to our sites, but how much time do we spend thinking about better ways to persuade people once they've arrived?
Such topics are often talked about in terms of conversion and split/run testing. However, I'm like to talk talking about something a little more subtle.
The gentle art of persuasion.
Is Your Web Site Persuasive?Every site "sells" something. It might be a...
If you love reading, JOHO has an interesting article about information...a bit beyond the scope of SEO, but interesting. :)
Noise is the sound of the world refusing abstraction, insisting on differences that are never the same as every other difference. If we are indeed exiting the age of information, perhaps we are entering — have entered — the age of noise.
Maki explains how noise appears in online publishing
Blogs that just repeat information already published...
We've all seen 800notes where you can complain about a telemarketer, but how about a website where you can post anything on any phone number at all? It's called CallWiki.com and it's a user-built free reverse phone number lookup tool. Did you know that more and more people are googling the caller-id before they answer the ringing phone? Have you googled your phone number? Does anything come up? Callwiki.com is really handy for listing your cell phone so that when people google your call-id...