To my surprise, I have a site that has no PR 6 links to it and it's PR6 for the latest update. Do you think they will take it back? This will be a big joke for me
gimme your site i don't believe it. if that is the case then go and try building your site. ensure you maintain the site for PR6
The PR thing is total shit! My most trafficked and popular sites are low pr and sites with almost no traffic is high pr
That's why I suspect PR is not just backlinks. I think Google has added in some factors beside counting the links.
Just because a website doesn't have any PR6 inbound links it doesn't mean that it can't be PR6. You just need lots of lower PR inbound links to be PR6. Think about it for a second - if it was a requirement to have a PR6 or higher inbound link in order to be PR6 there would be no PR6 or higher websites.
They don't just count links. They never have. Calculating PR is a very complex algorithm. However, ALL of the factors have to do with your backlinks. all backlinks are not created equal. For example, for each of your backlinks, they consider... - number of outbound links on that page - anchor text in the backlink - quality of the neighborhood - placement of the link (footer links are discounted a bit) - type of site it is (directory links are discounted)
You don't have to have a link from a pr6 site in order to achieve a PR6. For example, you could have several very strong links form pr5s and pr4s to achieve a pr6. or your could have dozens of strong pr3 links and achieve a pr6. conversely, you can have 10 links from pr6 pages and still achieve only a pr1. The algorithm used by Google to calculate PR is very complex. Don't think for a minute that attaining pr6 is as simple as getting a link from a pr6 page. There are many other factors involved, including number of outbound links on the page where your backlink is, the quality of the 'neighborhood' the page with the backlink is, along with many other factors.
google PR will never be a mistake and you will never understand how or why they calculated your page that way but they did so be happy
OK, I think you're confusing things here. Page Rank is a very well defined and documented formula that depends on LINKS ONLY. It doesn't depend on anchor text, quality of the neighborhood, placement of the link or type of site. What you're thinking of is authority or search engine value of a site. Algorithm for calculating site's authority is secret and it is constantly being tweeked by Google. Don't confuse those 2 things: there are websites out there that are PR6 and are banned by google and getting absolutely zero traffic from google. That's because page rank and authority of the site are 2 different things. Page rank is one of many factors that Google uses to calculate websites authority. BTW: Google sometimes artificially lowers page rank for some sites if they are selling links. That applies only to the page rank that shows up on IE toolbar, internally Google keeps the original page rank value. They lower the visible page rank to deter people from selling links. I have never heard of Google artificially raising website's page rank.
I shouldn't have thrown anchor text in there, but the others are ABSOLUTELY counted as factors in your PR. Backlinks from links in the FOOTER of a webpage are discounted a bit. They don't count as full backlinks. Backlinks from DIRECTORIES are discounted a bit. They don't count as much as other backlinks. The PR of the page where your backlinks is coming from is considered in your pagerank The number of outbound links on the page where you backlinks is coming from is considered in your pagerank. The authority of the website that your backlink is coming form is considered in your pagerank. ALL of this things, plus more are considered in your pagerank. Your pagerank is used to quantify the quality and quantity of your backlinks. These factors are part of what Google uses to determine the 'quality' part.