I was just checking the backlinks and PR of Slate.com They have over 3million backlinks and are only a PR5. They have backlinks from a ton of Authority sites such as the washington post, drudge report, the onion and more. PR of the backlnks are PR7 and higher. So why do they only have a PR5 ?
Isn't it kinda clear why? They have so many backlinks you can't expect all of them to be high, in fact no more than 5% are over PR5. Why do you care anyway? Use the search, it's there for a reason.
I was under the impression that one of the factors effecting PageRank was the average PageRank of all inbound links combined - yes, no? If yes, 3 million backlinks is going to cause a pretty low average.
May be Google has reduced their PR for some reason? Few months back I saw a thread where it was mentioned that w3schools, PR was reduced by Google: possibly they have a donation page where one could get a backlink via buying some money. That thread author believed that selling links was the reason. So may be this site PR is down for some reason? If not, then may be there are not enough Dofollow/solid backlinks to move the PR up to 6+?
Getting as much high PR backlinks as possible is very important if you want a high PR. I have visited a site only with about 1000 backlinks but have a PR of 6.
No not true at all, I just posted a thread on the first page about this. It seems many of us are misunderstanding that the quantity of links does not equate to PageRank or SERP rankings. 5 million no-follow, non-relevant (and I'm sure some from dynamic url's) will get you nowhere.
inbound linking has some effect on PageRank, however it's not everything. Content is key. For example I have an autoblog on one of my sites. The blog has a PR5 and I do no inbound linking to it whatsoever.