There use to be a time, back in 2000s, when you could post a lot of comments or post on forums, and achieve a PR 5 fairly easily. Nowadays, especially after the no-follow addition of 2005, it has become increasingly difficult. In fact, achieving a PR-3 in this age is pretty good. I've noticed with my own efforts after establishing a newer website in 2008, that it can be quite difficult to achieve high PRs, especially for forums. And today, everything is no-follow, so there are fewer options as well. Have you kept a PR 5+ on your site? Have you achieved a PR 5+ on a site AFTER 2005? What method was most effective for you? Article posting? Paid links? Adwords ? Banner ads? I haven't yet tried ANY paid method (I know, weird huh? I probably should have, but adwords scares me)--I had always thought, I could achieve it using hard work (this is still possible, except the hard work is magnified). Although in this latest article about link building "10 Extreme Link Building Techniques", it is still declared that content is king--perhaps content is now just a prince (still important, but must not be the only way to achieve success). Discuss .
Yes I HAVE.... I have a 5 month old social networking site and all it took was one link from a pr6 website I have a pr4 as well and I have two links pointing back to that site one from pr5 and the 2nd one from pr4. All you really need is couple of links from really good established older sites with high pr.
Same here. I have a couple of PR5 and had a PR6 but sold it. I guess having good content is important but having good solid links counts the most in PR calculation. Especially if its a related niche site.
Quick question for some of you guys... On Yahoo Siteexplorer, what is your PR and how many Inlinks do you have? I ask because, I'm sure that even if you got a PR 6-7 link, if you still only had like 200 inlinks, it should still be very improbable for you to get PR 5. My bet is, PR 5 you have around the range of 2000-10,000+ inlinks.
Hello, Today you can also get page rank 4 and above but it need hard work,I got pr-3 and pr-4 in may, my blog page rank is 4 you can check it here http://pakistan-travel.blogspot.com Thanks
Yes its true...these days the highest I've ever gone to was PR4, and that is only for the first two updates. After that time, it usually goes down to PR3 or lower. Google sure messed up their algo pretty bad now.
This should'nt really even be a major factor!. PR now days means little and is far overrated. Good ranking and quality websites is what counts!. The rest will follow!!
Yes, I have but personally I am not a BIG fan of PR. For me it is just one of the factor. If you have a quality content, IBL and good ranking then no worry.
Yes , I got in 2007 , after that I couldnt get yet on any of my site even my sites have strong backlinks
Meh, I had PR5 for half a year in 2008, but it wilted down to a 3 for whatever reason. (probably because a lot of bookmarking sites are unreliable over the long term, they all switch to nofollow, run out of money, or w/e). I really wouldn't worry about it though, because my traffic is a bit better than it used to be back then.
I went up to PR5 with less than a month and only few backlinks from a PR5 domain I believe it's getting harder to achieve such ranking using the same techniques used in the past, however PAID links still work though
I agree it is getting harder and harder to get pr alot of my sites dropped pr in the last couple of months
It's all about the high pr backlinks and the dynamical content. Here in Holland it's very easy to gain high pr. A new post on one of my pr5 sites is indexed within 1 minute on Google. It's surprises me every time. Google likes the site very much. In theory on the next update, a PR6 is possible