It does seem that is what Google is saying, but my question is - Did Google make a mistake? Perhaps add +5 to all new website PR last night? It seems that most postings are "my PR0 site that is 6 weeks old went to PR5". Certainly possible, but probable? For instance, my son's blog went from PR0 to PR5 - all 5 postings. C'mon! Does that rate a PR5?
There definitely could be a problem with PR at the moment. Only time will tell. I do know that I have at least a dozen PR5 and PR6 links in the past 2 weeks. I am throwing some vaultage at it as well.
I can't get my ecomm sites past a pr 5. I don't really try too hard though. PR is useless without traffic. And since PR does not equal traffic, it doesn't mean too much.
Congrats labrocca, but how does it rank for important keywords? I have a site that went from 0 to 6 but my rankings for the main keyword I'm fighting for slipped a full page in Google.
Whatever it is, its something fishy. Every one gets a crazy PR. Just an example http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=777976#post777976
It's doing better everyday for certain keywords. It's getting about 200+ uniques per day and growing. I believe critical mass for this site will be about 1k members and 10k posts. I hope to get there by June.
maybe he did some: http://seoblackhat.com/2005/07/26/how-to-fake-a-google-page-rank-10-or-any-pr-you-want/
Yeah I thought at first maybe I was cloaked from somewhere I didn't know about. I myself don't practice anything that might get me banned. I have too many sites and too much income to jeapordize my Google standings. I thought next update I would be PR4- PR5 at least that's what I was shooting for. PR8 is totally insane. Sitepoint is a PR8 for crying out loud. It means one of 3 things. 1. PR algo has changed 2. Google PR has a bug 3. I am just insanely lucky I am guessing it's #1 based on others reporting their PR change. Also Matt Cutt made a comment about PR recently.
Are you using the toolbar or a software? http://livepr.raketforskning.com/?u=http://www.democracyforums.com That's a live PR check at 73 datacenters...all of them show PR8 for me now. Also make sure to use www.democracyforums.com (note the www).