Can one get a PageRank without any incoming Links?

One content filled site I own recently got a PR of 3. Though there were many outgoing links, it had no Incomming links.

What do you say?

 

That is imposible.... unless google still have a glitch

 

Google sure did had a glitch then. I guess it had more to do with the contents, though.

 

see this iste: www.ssrkcomputers.com Only one incoming link but PR5

www.gietindia.com PR3 NO links at all.

 

What makes you think there are no links? Search Google for gietindia.com and you'll find some.

 

I had very little traffic and very few links and I got pr 4 easily on one of my sites.

 

First of all, they got 4 backlinks and they are online since 2003. It is normal that after a site matures and has a lot of clients visiting the site, it will earn page ranks.

 

Remember that when all new sites are born/indexed they automaticly get a small value in Googles eyes.. but not high enough to make it a pr3 without any inbound links.

 

PR 4 and even 5 doesn't take much in the way of incoming links. PR 6 and above on the other hand is another story.

 

That's the whole point of Page Rank - Incoming links. I don't think all links are really listed when you type "link:site.com".

 

I have had sites with zero backlinks get a PR3. It's not all about backlinks.

 

Me too. I have sites with no backlinks get a PR4.

 

Prove it, I bet we can find them.

 

Yes I agree... I don't believe a site get PR with out a single back link

 

Those sites have backlinks now. When I first started making websites I didnt attempt to create backlinks (noob) and months later my site had a PR3 with no backlinks showing.

I thinks its because google ranks pages and not sites. So relevant links from internal pages must be a contributing factor.

There could be a different explanation, but I think internal links can create page rank on their own.

one site was www.mistermix.co.uk - it still doesnt have any worthwhile backlinks...

 

Yahoo shows a pr5 and a pr 4 linking to that site + another 10 probably pr0's

 

It had PR3 before i arranged the those links. There may have been a few pr0 links but nothing worthy of a PR3 alone, in my opinion.

If you think about it, it makes complete sense that internal links alone can create page rank.

http://www.mistermix.co.uk/links/ has a page rank of 3 purely because of internal links.

I still believe www.mistermix.co.uk was given a PR of 3 based on internal links alone - but i'm open to any info/knowledge you may have that proves this wrong.

 

Ah!!! Could be internal links then.. But my site didn't have any external inbound links for sure...

 

you cannot get pagerank without incoming links

 

what we are debating is wether those links have to be from an external site or if internal links can create PR.

In my experiance a site can get page rank without any backlinks. Most webmaster won't be able to experiance this because it is standard practice to create lots of links when you publish a site.