i have a site which is about 1.5yrs old and never looked after it. To my surprise i dont know how i got PR5 and never promoted this site at all. how could i have possibly got PR5? Is my PR toolbar in firefox showing me the wrong PR?
I had this happen too (for my CPA firm site)... For years, literally, I worked to move it from PR4 to PR5... finally, I gave up... Obviously, PR5 wasn't in the cards. Then, like a year later, bam, I noticed I was a PR 5. My guess is that some of your past link-building meant you had links on pages that themselves became much more visible... Congrats...
Most likely some of the pages your existing links are on increased in PR. I also believe backlinks that have some age on them also carry more PR power. Congratulations in any case!
You got a lot of backilnk, I see 593 (that means there can be 2-3000) and from strong valuable websites. That is why your sites PR increased, you content is valuable, and many sites linked you. Grats.
May be on your website there are fruitful information and people would love to link it, that may be the reason for getting PR higher. in yahoo exp. there are still only 618 links for your website, Whatever, few good website linking to you with higher pr will bring you on top. Congratulations again.
I think, Your Quality content with Very good info + Good Back links + Unique visitors Traffic = google sent you Page rank Juice 5 Good Job and skill. Thanks John
Page rank has nothing to do with content, visitors, or quality of a site (although a better site more likely to get linked to). PR is 100% determined by backlinks to a site.
Lucky you. You got pr 5 without even doing anything and I have tried for months and failed even to cross the pr 3 boundary.
i'm sure with old sites and good backlinks(since you mention you never do any promotion) , it will always work out
Site information tool shows that main page has 647 inbound links, it saved by 254 people on del.ico.us, it has 57 diggs in overall. So it seems it's worth PR 5