Effects of link bait page

[Ron10]

Hi Mozzers!  I'm thinking about putting a page with some interesting comedy content on my site as link bait and had a few questions on how i should go about it.

1.  Should I link to this page from my home page or would it be better to build outside links to it and then funnel all the page rank to the pages on my site that i want ranking higher?  I've been told that page rank is a tiny factor in ranking in the serps so is it worth doing if the only reason i'm building it is to funnel page rank to my important pages?  The link bait  page content will be on the same subject as my entire site so it will definitely help google associate my site with my product from the incoming links.

2. if a web page on my site receives links does it help other pages on my site to rank higher or just the page with the incoming links?  One time i had a flurry of links pop up to my home page and it seemed like all my pages started ranking higher, but it might just have been coincidence? Any thoughts?

3.  What's a good way to get my page seen by the masses to draw links?  I thought about buying some stumbles on Stumbleupon to get it seen quickly but are there more or better ways to do this?

Thanks in advance everyone!

Ron

[irvingw]

1. Link from your homepage and Google will take it more seriously. Link back to the homepage as well. Link building to the pages never hurts.

b) Helps it all because the page juice gets distributed throughout your site (assuming you are dofollowing those pages and not throwing away the PR with nofollows

c) Getting it ranked in Google is probably the best way, but if it's content worthy of possibly going viral then SU, FB, Youtube campaigns all MAY or may not work.

[EGOL]

1. YES!  Especially from your homepage.  Tell everybody that visits your site!

2. YES!  Every quality links helps the authority of your entire domain.

3. If you have superb linkbait then share it will other people by tweeting to your friends, posting on facebook, ask your mum to tell visitors to her blog, share it with reddit, put a sign on your dog.....  but I don't think that I would buy any stumbles... because if your link bait is really good it should get tons of stumbles without paying for them.