i have multiple sites... some are pr0...pr2...pr3...pr4.. but pr4 is as high as i have gotten...any tips to move to the next level??
It's not that hard. Either get a good chunk of lower PR links or get a few PR 5/6 links. PR5 is definitely attainable to anyone who tries. You're prboablya lot closer then you realize.
I agree. PR5 and even 6 are not bad. 8 is another story. It seems very hard. 7 used to be hard, but that previous update gave them away too easily.
WHY? Why do you want a higher PR? if it is to rank better then forget it, If it is to get more traffic then get lots of on topic links, and the traffic will come. If it is to sell links, then do yourself a favour, and buy a couple of high PR links and concentrate on link building for traffic!
* Two pages with the same PageRank shown on the toolbar may actually have a very different true PageRanks. * It gets progressively harder to push a page to the next PageRank level on the toolbar. Google has a PageRank of 10 as well as Adobe.com. Even though Adobe is an extremely popular web site, it is highly doubtful that they have as many links pointing to them as Google does. There have been thousands of articles written about this. For years search engine specialists have been trying to figure out the formula to Googles' "secret sauce". From a real-world perspective through managing multiple client web sites, I have determined there are some definite factors that influence web sites Page Rank and SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position). * Aged Domains / Proper Use of Tags / Descriptive Content / Content and Linking / Visitor Traffic Traffic really helps! You could see why Google may assign a high PageRank to a domain that is getting a consistent high volume of traffic. Who knows, maybe someone will mention your web site on Oprah. It doesn’t hurt to toot-your-own-horn.
This is because not all links are created equal. Google may have more links, but Adobe has more high quality links. PR != Quantity of links. There aren't any articles written questioning how pagerank works because it is a published formula. It's all over the Internet. Traffic does not affect SERPs. It can't because Google (and every other search engine) can't measure it. Think about. How do you know what a page's traffic is? You can't unless you have access to every webpage's logs and nobody even comes close to that by a mile. Traffic being used in determining a page's rankings is a common myth. And it should be noted that the quantity of links does not affect a page's rank. There are two major factors in links that affect Google's SERPs: 1) The anchor text. The words in the link to a page has tremendous value in Google's algorithm. 2) If the page linking to your page is on the same topic is worth a lot more then if the link is offtopic.
PageRank is COMPLETELY determined by links to your site. It has nothing to do with traffic, content, or anything else. Each incoming link to your page can pass up to 85% of it's PR - but that is divided between the number of outgoing links on the page linking to you.... i.e. a page with 1 outgoing link passes 10X the PR as a page with 10 outgoing links. Each increase in PR requires approximately 6 times as much weight. Don't concentrate on PR. Only relevant links are going to help you with SERPS.
Its not very hard. I just linked my PR6 site to a PR2 site and the when the next update hit, I was a PR5. They were of two different subjects as well.
That's because PR is not content dependant (as stated above). I just launched a new site and got a PR6 and PR7 link pointed to it and both are on topic, too. Between those links and the directories I've submitted too I hope to be a PR6 next update. Maybe even rank well, too.
so if a high PR site links to a low PR site, some of that PR 'rubs off' on the new site. If the high PR site removes its link does the PR gained by the new site get lost? Do the high PR links have to be permanent to give continual benefit? thanks!
technically yes, but PR is not transferred, the anchor page can 'vote' PR without losing any itself. When people talk about PR leakage, they are referring to the loss of PR being passed back into the internal navigation system.
No probs Stymiee I often use the same word and have to correct myself. Technically it is transferred, but it also stays there LOL who said you can't have your cake and eat it? Anything is possible with Google
From what I have read, PR is basically just bragging rights these days. Really doesn't mean much. Best advice would not be to worry too much Page Rank but worry about visitors. PR4 site can rank higher than PR7 site for many search terms if that is what you are worried about.
We've been stuck at PR5 for the past 2 PR updates, despite agressively going after high-PR links. Right now, Google shows 1110 backlinks using the "link:" command. If anyone wants to throw me some free links to get over this hurdle and get me the PR6 we've been chasing, feel free to shoot me a PM.