9194 Backlinks in total but still a PR 1?

According to the prediction tool http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction?domain=www.michaelaulia.com/blogs

I should have got a PR 5 (or at least 3), but I'm still on 1 since the end of last year..

I'm sure those backlinks are not just crappy links

Google hasn't finished updating? Or there's a misconfiguration on my server somewhere... (robots.txt, sitemap ?)

 

I doubt it has anything to do with those 2 files you mentioned.
I have very optimized Blog with over 18k Backlinks
and I am PR3 and other PR4
I think it all depends on the links.
How you got them and their value and the website value etc..
and in how much time did you gain those backlinks and few other factors that is if they related to your niche or not...

 

Ah I see. As long as I know there's nothing wrong at my end, then it's ok.

I was panicking and planning to migrate my blog to the root, thinking it may have a difference

 

You sure it isn't you having duplicate content?

 

I think you need quality backlinks,try to get some links from adobe.com,and try to have your site submitted to dmoz.

 

I agree that prediction tools are not accurate

 

Quality links matters bro , if you are having tech blog and getting back links from jokes niche blog it will not effect anything to you . Backlinks with niche always help .

 

I just submitted mine to dmoz (the ...com/blogs) not the root domain. Hope i'm doing the right thing

Well I've used the robots.txt to stop duplicate contents + a WordPress plug-in to get rid of duplicates

I guess I just need more quality backlinks then? (I remember submitting to some high PR directories a few weeks earlier)

Which is kinda hard lol coz it's not just focusing on technology.. oh well I deserve it I guess

PS : The blog is down at the moment

 

I found this diamond related blog and according to google itself it has only 46 backlinks but pr3.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=link:http://gemscollection.blogspot.com/&btnG=Google+Search

 

Don't rely on prediction tool mostly of automated tool is not accurate.

 

Just keep getting quality back links from various seo technique, not fall in love with specific seo technique and trust on google, he keep notice your website.

 

I have less backlinks than you but the site is pr4 from the last update. The site is about car leasing so I gathered as much backlinks from sites relating to car or just have the word "car" dominant in its pages. I guess google saw my backlinks as "relevant" even if those sites are not exactly related to car leasing.

So I would suggest that you try to find out what your site is mostly about and which keyword has the most occurence and then try to gather backlinks relating to that keyword.

 

It won't hurt but trying to get listed in dmoz these days is the equivalent of praying for golden coins to appear under your pillow in the morning when you wake up. Won't hurt though, you may get lucky.

Pretty much. It's like everyone else says, you need to get links from pages with topics similar to your niche if you're trying for search engine traffic. I'm of the belief that random links without rhyme and reason won't do you any good. Even directories. Submitting your link to tons of directories isn't going to do you too much good unless the directory itself brings you traffic, and it's hard to find one of those. That's probably against the general concensous here but that's my experience. Submitted a site long ago to 300 directories over a week manually and got squat from it in the way of SERP rankings. The directories are high PR but you have to remember your link is going to end up deep inside somewhere, more than likely on a page with no PR along with 100s of other links. Makes the link itself pretty weak.

I wouldn't worry about PR - trying to judge anything based off PR will drive you crazy. I've got a PR2 right now that pays my bills every month as well as a blog that opened in February that went from PR0 to PR4 that might have 100 backlinks to it if it's lucky. Worry more about SERP position for your keywords. That's the important thing. Looking at your April traffic stats post on your blog you seem to be doing very, very well for yourself right now with a PR1 blog so you're definitely doing something right.

 

You need quality backlinks and content.

 

Tips:

For me, i just do my regular backlinks, for example, diggin' posting to some forums, ads using adwords.. so far, all my sites WILL increase it's PR from 0 to maybe 2 or 3 within the 6 mths update period. that is what i do and it never fails.. I RARELY get or buy backlinks.. not sure why i don't but i never like to buy them. Always get natural organic traffic either from google or redirect.

 

jackpage...you touched upon something i've been wondering...first, i agree with you about the relative weakness of links from directories (even ones with high pr)...however, i have been assuming that these submissions would help me with serps because the links are submitted to a category that is a main keyword i'm trying to target.
what do others think about that?

 

dont believe that stupid tool at iwebtool,most of things at there are wrong,i dont believe that page at all!

 

It may seem a bit futile to repetitively submit your site to directories - however, for an SEO with zero budget, I've found them to be very useful.(2 blogs with PR2 within 2 months -mainly directory links)

I've done hundreds of submissions in the last few months. Every now and then I'll google my domain name and see which directories contain backlinks to my site. Doing this will also show you which directories are being regularly crawled.

For any new sites that I'm building I'll use this as a 'seed list' for getting new links. This lessens the chance of your site being ignored or rejected.

With regards to Pagerank, it's a nice thing to have PR, but in the real world, traffic, keyword SERPS, relevant links and conversion rates are the most important thing.

 

ya i thik so u should me mail to google.com castamer care