Are backlinks the only factor in PageRank?

Does the PR of a site depend on other things as well as backlinks? I read the following on this google page:

 

Well I've seen sites with 1000 backlinks and PR2
And I've seen sites with 4 backlinks and PR2

So there are MANY other factures, like age of other sites, if the other sites are listed in google etc.

Maybe read this: http://gethighprdomains.com/

Greetz

 

Backlinks are one factor for getting PR but many backlinks won't guarantee continual PR. You need good content to sustain the PR.

 

backlinks is not main factor for PR.
some of my websites has any (0) backlinks but become pr3 in 3 months.
with low bounce back rate, high pageview/visitor and time spent on page, your site may have at least pr3

 

How can Google tell your bounce rate and average time spent on site?

 

in a nutshell, yes back links on the only factor in page rank but...
it's the quality of those back links, the rank of the pages and how related those links are to your site

 

In backlinks as well as SEO, the only 2 major factors and role players would be content and links and that includes backlinks.

When we talk about a website, there will other additional factors like the overall design, standards followed, link structure and if you have a blog, the PR of the links that lead to your blog. Of course there are a lot more today especially that the algorithm of Google is changing and little by little, the belief that ranking is all you need to drive traffic is disappearing.

 

PR means google ranking the site or page by evaluating its importance. Its by different factors , but one of the main is BL from relevant and high PR sites

 

You may need to sign up and apply Google Analytic to view these data.

 

Backlink is one of the way to get good PR. but another factor affect to get good PR. so we want to consider all factor not only one factor backlink.

 

Ok, I'll help with this:

It's the quality/age of the backlinking sites.
It also depends on the range of backlinks. A backlink from a .edu is worth mre than a .net or .info.
It depends on where they are linking to. Not just your homepage, but inner content pages.
You could have millions of backlinks but if they are noFollow links, then is useless.

Choose your backlinks carefully and try natural (not paid) links on quality, related sites.

 

You couldn't be more wrong.
Maybe you should read this
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page

The PageRank trademark is owned by standford, so that is their own words.

Here is what Google say:
"PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important"."

In other words:
PageRank is only about backlinks!

And the many other variables you are talking about is how Google give these backlinks more or less value...

 

All I can tell you is that PR doesn't depend on traffic
Get quality links from High PR and old sites and you will be doing fine.

P.S.: Also selling links might hurt your PR.

 

Backlinks is not the only factor for PR.

 

Backlinks is the only factor...
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=9880607&postcount=12

 

I believe it is not the only factor.
Google take into consideration the page content as well.

 

Hmm I made an article with no backlinks and it went to PR 3 on the next upgrade. I think the content itself plays a role, at least from my site findings

 

No inner page linking? Hard to beleive. You guys build all this nonsens on squat! You got it black on white from both Google and Stanford. The Google bot doesn't read your article and gives it a high PageRank if it finds it funny or interesting (it's a computer for christ sake!). And neither does the Google team.

 

To back up those in the know... YES, I can confirm from my experience the only thing that adds pr to your site is backlinks. However, there are ways to HURT your PR unrelated to backlinks it appears

If someone has a site with PR that has no backlinks please post or send me the URL to check out. There may be ways to make a site look like it has no backlinks and have PR through redirects and forwards, but still the pr is originating from the backlinks to the other URLs involved.

 

The only link to the article at the time was internal. the only thing I can thing of that would link to it would be the rss feed