Hi all, I have an interesting case study, this site http://www.havelaptopwilltravel.com/ has a PR of 7. It's absolutely not a popular site, it has very little incoming links, but has a PR equivalent to the one of Gizmodo, which is rather astonishing. How's it possible? The only reason I see is that the domain is 8+ years old, but that's all frankly, is that really enough to have a PR of 7?
It does an rss feed to it, which gets updated frequently, about a couple times a week. Can anyone help with this?? I have feeds from my blog site show up in my main website, but it still doesn't show that I have feeds available. There is a automatic rss feed indicator that glows on my desktop whenever there is a feed available. How can we all have these feeds on our site?? Don
its got more than 4,500 incoming links, many from high PR pages tool bar page rank is a reflection of incomming links only
i think there is no so much search term which that site ranks. backlinks is one of biggest criteria on serp but it's not everythink
14,000 links back http://us.altavista.com/web/results?q=linkdomain:www.havelaptopwilltravel.com&kgs=0&kls=0 Some high pr links too.
of course you can not get the high PR without any backlinks. we will never know exactly how many back links they got, but one thing for sure is they had worked hard to get back links to achieved PR7. ^^
Thanks for your replies, I see what you mean. Take this site for example http://www.gearfuse.com/ it's only 9 months old, but it has 50,000 backlinks from a lot of high PR sites too, according to altavista, and has a PR of only 4, I think the gap between the 2 examples cannot be explained by the age of the domain only (the PR7 site is 8 years old). There must be another explanation, maybe the PR update hasn't occurred for a few months, does someone know when it will be updated?
Google is always updating internally. It's just that they release the updated PR to public 3-4 times per year. I think one is coming in end of July of August.
If a 9 month old site has 50,000 links, one would tend to believe they're mostly sitewides 50,000 sitewides from PR4 sites are probably worth ,,,, PR4 The other domains links are worth a whole lot more, Domains do sometimes gain gravitas with time
Maybe some of them are sitewide, but a majority of them are links contained in one page, so unique high PR links, and there's not a big gap between the 2 domains in terms of quality of the links and their number. I think we'll see some changes the next PR public update.
Indeed domain age has something to do with PR, as it has something to do with SEO in general. For example, a brand new site (less than 1 year) who has just received over 50,000 links (which are in fact sitewide links) when they started with 0 will usually be put in the "sandbox" for Google... and Yahoo as well. The older the site, the better the effect of those links. And this is just an example, you simply can't say domain age has ZERO effect on PR. On a more minor point, and as centime just said, "Domains do sometimes gain gravitas with time". Well said.
Steve, I wont agree with your logic. However domain age could have impact on PR but this whole sandbox thing doesnt make sense to me. My blog was started in Dec and only after 2 update (in Jan& april), i got Pr 6. with your domain age logic, i wont get Pr 6?