Ive bought Blacklinks, linkwheels, articles, directory submission (contemplating Yahoo! tho), and it shows my PR as 0. My domain is similar to the keyword of choise, and I have 12 pages so far of original 500word content. I'm confused... Any help would be appreciated.
You don't, really... you can have the most successful website, with tons of traffic, tons of revenue, at the top of the SERPs for every keyword you target... and still be at PR0 for all your pages. PR doesn't update for most pages, and lots of good quality pages will never be anything other than PR0. PR is no longer an important goal. Of course, Google will probably remain silent for a long time to come and let people guess what to do and watch an indicator that's never going to move. How is your traffic, your revenue, and your position in the SERPs for your keyword(s)?
Sounds like you have a good site, exact match domain, unique content and already quite a few links pointing at it. As for increasing your PR, the only thing you would need for that are links without the nofollow tag (i.e. "dofollow" links). If you want to get the most out of this, you should look for sites with high PR that are "dofollow" and also have a low number of outgoing links (the lower that OBL count the more PR juice your site will get). Google used to update PR frequently, the last time that happened was in april 2010. By the way, just because a domain had a PR of 0 at the last update doesn’t mean that it is still PR 0 in Google’s eyes. Google has already admitted that PageRank is constantly changing and updating all the time. Anyway, I agree with arcadeorama though that traffic, revenue and specifically your SERP positions are more important than your PR count.
My rank was # 7, I was bumped to page #40 due to revisions I made, I got it back to rank # 11 now. I ran traffic travis on my key competitors, and they all have a PR of at least 3 (the top 10 had a PR). so your indication of PR not being a goal, I feel isnt correct... I've optimized the hell out of my site, I feel this -- possibly DMOZ/Yahoo directories may help but idk..
So obviously since im new, a few with high PR are better than like a 5k xrummer blast right? My site; if you wish to check out is www. consolidate-debt (DOT) org.
Yes, go over quality than quantity. As for the PR, it shouldn't be your goal to increase it as high as possible, since that won't guarantee you any higher rankings. Being very relevant for your target search term will. High PR just indicates that Google conceives a domain to be more authoritative than one with a lower PR. However, if you analyze a few keywords and the top 10 spots competing for those, you'll quickly see stuff like PR 5 on spot 2, PR 0 on spot 1. Why? Because the PR 0 one was more relevant/better optimized/more quality backlinks than the PR 5 one.
Links from high PR sites still seem to be important, so if you are building a site as part of linking plan, then yes you want some PR. If you are just concerned about if G will like your site and rank it high, the advice here is good. I have a #1 ranking for a good term and am getting good traffic. PR rank 0.
Hmmmm, thanks - what about this question. Does the PR to which my link falls on matter? For example; lets say www.domain.com had a PR of 8 www.domain.com/directory had a PR of 5 www.domain.com/forum/whatever had a PR of 0 Would it matter where my link is, or does google count the primary PR for the indexed domain? If this is the case, why do people even do forum links?
Yes, forum profiles work because the PR of the internal page does matter but the PR of the domain is definitely taken into count as well. When possible you should always try to create backlinks on high PR internal pages of a high PR domain.
It normally take 6 / 7 months before Google is updating its PR but i don't think they will. Within a year there license will expire so maybe they will drop it.
Google has not been updated page rank for last 6-7 months, normally google updates the page rank after every 3 months
No... their license does not expire in 2011. It becomes non-exclusive (Stanford can license the algorithm to others). I don't think Google has made it clear what they will do about that.
Yes it would matter a lot. If you had a homepage backlink from a PR 8 site, you'd practically rank #1 for nearly any moderate competition keyword from that link alone. Directory would be next best, and the PR 0 would be the lowest quality. However, it would still be a pretty good link to get it from a forum, since link-juice and authority spread throughout a domain.
well, the best thing is having unique visitors daily, the most important is backlinks from high pr pages, coz if u dont hve enough unique visitors but have links from high pr pages then u will have a good pr, but if u have a no of unique visitors then your pr would increase without need of having backlinks
Just check on your backlink, most of your link are nofollow which are not helping you on increasing your PR
Just keep working on making back links ans and all other that's matched with SEO that it and wait for the Google's update thank you
The PR rank depends on how many high ranked PR websites has your link.So you have to ask a link on High PR websites.In my opinion PR is not important part of SEO.
Your real internal PR has probably gone up already. It is just that Google has not updated its toolbar PR since Apr 2nd and nobody knows whether it intends to update it at all this year.