PR5 Wiout any SEO

Guys, my Politics Forum obtained PR5 without any advertising or any SEOing.

How did that happen?

Max

 

The page got a PR5 because of its DMOZ listing. A DMOZ listing in a popular category will be replicated to many sites across the Internet. Your one DMOZ listing got you enough links to give your page a PR5.

No form of web design will give you pagerank, because on-page factors are not utilized in pagerank calculations. Pagerank is all about inbound links.

 

It is not a "forum" only. The main website is not a duscussion forum.

 

Will, I do not see any links as a result of DMOZ. What are you using to find such links directly influenced by DMOZ?

 

link:www.blahblah.com

You have links to you and links = PR (along with other factors)

 

Click on Find web pages that contain the term "www.politicsforum.com" and you get

 

Geeez. How did I get so many?

 

That is nowhere near enough to give me a PR5

 

1. you have a frequently updated website thanks to your forum and your articles
2. it's an election year
3. the site represents views popular with the politically disenchanted (e.g., the Libertarian Party)
4. I suspect that this is the kind of site those people will quote and post links to because of the views discussed on the site

That figure is the result of using Google's link: request which gives some sort of quasi-random sample of your backlinks but does not even come close to representing the actual number of backlinks. See Google Advanced Search Operators.

 

You don't need many links to reach a PR5.... one or two good links are enough... I've got a site who got 5 two weeks after getting in the Dmoz catalog... and with no other inbound links

 

You mean this one?

But according to the Google Toolbar it's a PR4 (of course, that is badly out of date...).

 

Not it does not. The website is not partisan. It is a political forum for any/every political ideology. Take a look at the political discussion forum.

 

My apologies -- I just took a quick look and saw the Libertarian Party banner and jumped to conclusions. However, it wasn't meant as a crack at all -- actually it was meant as a compliment -- and it doesn't really alter the basis of my comments -- it is an election year and there are always a lot of disenchanted people at such times who will seek out commentary and discussion in places like your website.

 

I started doing some optimizing as of now to get that place moving along faster.

I am going to give it about 25,000 backlinks this month.

 

where on earth do you plan on getting 25,000 backlinks?

 

I have software which goes out and ads links to my site on other websites

 

worldwide-holidayhomes.co.uk
PR5 from 2 links (one doesn't appear to be appearing!)

It's an unfinished website that I haven't SEO'd or optimised, but it doesn't matter how many links you have to your site, you can get a PR5 quite easily nowadays.

Good work though

Darren

 

Sounds a bit dodgy - do you mean FFA / Link farms? You can't possibly mean individual websites.