Has anyone with a site that already had PR1+ gotten a new PR with this? I am only seeing me new PR0 sites going up, all previous PR sites are staying the same, which may just be coincidence thus the question is asked. Thanks.
I was wrong. 1 of my new sites is showing a PR6. OMG PR6 site for sale! For some odd reason though these PRs seem to be matching the future page rank tools (which are usually high).
Some people have suggested that Google may be destroying the value of PR by giving all the new sites page rank. I hope this theory isn't true. If it is, the whole point of text link advertising suddenly becomes worthless. Have a lot of people got PR 5 and 6 ranks without a lot of work? It is strange how all the new sites seem to be getting high PR at the first update. I got a PR 5, but I don't trust Google.
all my sites remained the same, except 1 site that is about 10 weeks old that went from PR0 to PR6. Im very happy right now
A new site - Rat-Hunter.com - went from PR0 to PR5 and is showing backlinks now. Also seeing more data in Google Sitemaps ...
That is what I'm thinking as well. People are jumping for joy, but the whole thing doesn't add up. The value of PR 5 and 6 text links will probably decline. If this is what Google plans, I don't like it, but there isn't much I can do, other than making money from other things. I don't really understand why Google has gripes about people selling text links in the first place. It doesn't effect them, does it? If a webmaster works hard to increase the rank of their site, they should be able to sell text links. I think Google is going to screw all of us. I've seen way to many webmasters making posts saying they got a PR 5 or 6 on their new site. I don't mean to sound negative, but if a large portion of your income comes from text links, you may be in financial trouble. With the number of people who now have PR 5 or 6 sites, trying to sell text links to me doesn't make much sense.
I am thinking the same thing. In the past I have seen a site of mine get PR6 and after 2 weeks or so it became PR4.
pyramidlinking has PR5 and is less than 4 weeks old. It does have 1600 backlinks according to MSN but still PR5 is surprising.
There's definitely something going on - http://lazybloggr.com, less than a month old / registered domain, 0>PR5 - a few nice backlinks. I don't believe google is giving out PR willy nilly, the sites getting it all have one thing in common. Brand new never seen before on the web content. I believe Google is rewarding new sites with *new* content. If you're pumping up article driven database nonsense and hoping for a few high PR backlinks you're not going to get any benefit. I mentioned this when this update first started - I'm still not sure if its the case though, but that's my theory.