I wrote a whole article about this but would like to hear opinions here. Here's a quote from Chris's article "Affiliate Gold" (http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/affiliate_gold/) :
I don't see that in Google search results. For example, I have a website called Goldfish-care.com. I reached a PageRank of 4 pretty easily. Google mentions 35 incoming links to that page. The keywords I'm after are "goldfish care" and being hyphernated in my domain name, they are in all of the incoming links anchor text.Before you try to make an affiliate site like this you need to research your keywords and the competition. You should first of all figure out which terms related to your product are searched the most. For instance which is searched for more often, "Digital Camera Deals," or "Digital Camera Sales." Once you find the most popular set of keywords for your product (the keywords you will use to link to your affiliate page) then you need to find out the current competition for those words. So do a search on Google for those words and check the PageRank of the first site to come up. If your Overall PageRank Power is greater than the PageRank of the current #1 site then you will likely have the #1 spot if you make this affiliate site and cross-promote it with your current site.
Now, run a search for "goldfish care". The no. 1 site that comes up has a PR of 3... My website is no. twenty something. There are sites with various PR between us. So, unless I'm missing something with "overall PR power", I don't see that PR has such a direct impact of your SERP.
Opinions more than welcome. I'm not trying to put down what Chris said - on the contrary. I really want to understand this better. You can read more of my thoughts in my article (in my signature).
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