look at this site http://tinyurl.com/pvqkas and see its pagerank, yes its PR4 and yes its a blank site, its 5 months old. Its about something thats not even exist. So still think PageRank formula is not BS???
The site:http://tinyurl.com/pvqkas has a redirect point to http://windows8news.com/, the PR which be shown on toolbar is belong to windows8news.com. But http://windows8news.com/ has about 74 links from windows7news.com. BTW, windows7news.com is a PR5 with homepage and unique content site.
Yeah sometimes it's too hard to know how the site got that kind of pr. How what does BS means? I saw this BS word many times but I didn't get the point behind it. Would you mind explaining to me.
PR is only bs when it has to do with a powerful network having one of their inner pages ranking with no effort..which is only for a short while. Remember squidoo? Those lenses were ranking something insane with little to no help. Eventually the algorithm catches up with them and devalues pages just like any other page so I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
windows7news(dot)com which has PR5 has a blogroll/sitewide link pointing to windows8news(dot)com with the anchor text Windows 8 windows7news(dot)com has more than 7,000 pages indexed, and of course within that much of pages, there are sure to have some PR4/3/2/1/0 pages all pages have moderate amount of internal + external links. if you check windows8news(dot)com with yahoo site explorer, there are already more than 4,000 backlinks from windows7news(dot)com I guess that's already sufficient to make windows8news(dot)com a valid PR4, or at the very least PR3 if the sitewide link remains intact.
I tend to agree with OP's thread title, simply for the fact that such practices only seem to shower more riches very easily to people who are already rich! A person having got hold of a high ranked site by money or effort, can easily make several other sites rank equally well, with little effort! No wonder, people are busy building their own network of sites and blogs! Regards, RightMan
My traffic continues to grow and my sales expand -- and my BS page rank is dropping. Google has too much weight with this PR that isn't really that important. If someone else had a PR, no one would care. It's just Google using their name somehow to benefit themselves.
PR can be great and relaxing to have, especially when it comes talking about PR of 5,6,7 but you can find a lot of sites at the top of Google having very low PageRank.
Pagerank is not the be all end all for Google searches, I have some parts of my site that have a PR1 and rank on the front page for specific keywords
PR can't be a fake one, this site may consist some powerful backlink. I guess PR4 is not a hard one to get within 5 web sites. If you create quality backlinks, anyone can get PR 3,4.