How Many Backlinks Do You Require To Get Your Dream PR ?

This is a question which I get shot with quite regularly , so let us put the speculation to rest . How many backlinks do you actually require to gain a particular page rank ?

Check the diagram below it explains the number of backlinks required from a page that has a particular PR for you to reach your desired PR .




As with all my SEO advice posts go I would like to repeat it again - don't obsess with PR . High PR does not necessarily mean high traffic . Use the chart only for analytical purposes to understand how the PR system works with influence from other links .

You will also note that with every step the level of difficulty increases as a function of exponential and you will require much , much more backlinks to climb up one PR number than you actually required to reach your present PR from the previous PR .

Although there are a dozen more inferences that can be derived from the chart , its for the SEO analytics geeks to relish . For the rest , I hope this table solves your apprehensions about the relation between pagerank and backlinks . If there are any further questions , I would be happy to help .

 

not many, i just need 18 according to your list

 

Yes indeed but depending on what PR you need the difficulty of getting those links will also increase since they have to come from 18 links of that PR !

 

Well this is very old chart made by some one else on the net. I dont think this equation of links given is perfect. However better to take two or three links count more everytime. I had been studying this since last couple of years and have been successful in most of my sites

 

I dont think the chart is accurate
sometimes its enoughto get 1 or 2 links from the desired PR page to get an equal PR (to the pages PR)

 

I've seen this chart (or similar ones) dangling on the net for years. I take it (them) with a ton of salt. From my experience it is much better to combine links from different PRs, it provides much better boost. But I'm not interested in PR, I'm interested in traffic!

BTW, you get curious indications such as that a single PR7 link will provide you with a page rank 2, 3, 4 and 5. Sorry? Which one of the four?

 

One of my sites was PR3 with about 10-12 uniques/day
Then, it went PR2 and that since that day, it had 80-90 uniques/day
It is now PR1 and now generates 300-340 uniques/day

I can't wait to get PR0

What can I do to reach PR0 and therefore the thousands of uniques coming with it??

 

Good one! If you find out, please tell me, I'd love to have that downwards traffic increase

 

Yup you will find many similar charts in google image search . I never said that I made it , its just that there were a lot of questions on the forum threads asking queries about PR so I thought it might help . Yes it takes around 22 links from the desired PR to reach that . And the chart is not perfect since it is old and calculated on a logarithmic scale and with the latest amendments the PR flow is calculated as a function of "exponential" and not logarithmic . But still this is only to get a rough idea for those who are totally clueless of how powerful one PR position can get since most of the newbies tend to treat all the links in a similar fashion . This chart will bring more clarity to them .

 

i don't really think that is true !!!! some websites have a higher pr and whene we look to their backlinks they are in the average of 20

 

GOD bless you !
Are you new to SEO ?

 

there is no certain number of backlinks defined to reach a defined value of pagerank

 

........... says the guy with an alexa of 4,860,000

 

is it really an updated chart ?

 

well looking towards my SEO experience i do not think that quality backlinks cant be counted into numbers to get our dream pR.The page rank simply depends on the quality of the particular website in terms of google.

 

No mam this is not an updated chart and not to be referred by SEO professionals . It is calculated as a log function which was an old way of link profile mapping . It is just an easy looking chart I picked up from Google search just so that a lot of newbies here could understand the basics since I see a lot of 'My webmasters shows 100 links still I have a PR 0 ' kind of questions . So this chart will give a rough idea how links from different PR are treated differently .

If you are a professional SEO and need an accurate measure then use an exponential function and rebuild the chart . It comes to around 24 - 26 links where there are 18 links in the above chart and a similar hike as the number goes up . I have the data compiled but no time to make the chart , will update it on my blog asap done making the chart !

 

There's plenty more metrics going into PR than just links. As Jacuzzi says the quality is playing a major part too.

 

Content is king and traffic drives your success - PR doesn't matter unless you're trying to sell links.

 

Absolutely correct.

 

I think some are missing the point...which I think is, you need links from high quality sites to raise your PR, and LOTS of links from lesser quality sites to do the same. I don't think he was saying anything about the exact number, et al., and especially not commenting on PR vs. traffic.

SEO is not rocket science, it's ditch digging...