Hello! My blog is a feeble PR1 (but it's only new!), and after seeing phpBB has a PR9, I was wondering how long it takes to reach the dizzy heights of such a large one digit number? For those with medium to large PRs - it is months, years?
I have two PR7's, one site started in '99 and the other in '02. It should really only take a few months to six months to get a high PR if you have solid high PR-passing inbound links, it's like asking how long does it take to drive a BMW? Well, if you have cash or a good income you can just go out and buy one or borrow the money. Eric
I think once you have a PR6 you can create as many PR5's as you want. E.G. once you have a PR7 it is not hard to create new PR6 sites. Eric
Why do you bother with SERP's? More important is traffic, imho. No -- more important is conversions and CPM. No -- more important is money in the bank. :-P I think it is generally known that a high PR boosts page's the serp potential, both for the page and the pages it is linking to... so PR is a factor in acheiving good serps. Eric
It took me about 3 months to get a PR 3. I think in another month or so, it has been about 3 months, and I think with the next PR update it may move up to a PR5.
I have one site with 20k+ backlinks which hit pr6 with this update. All the pr5's are linked to from the pr6 site. The other pr5's only have a max of 1000 backlinks. All the links are free though no paid links, most of them are reciprocal links.
took me 3 months to get PR3 for first site, then linked blog to PR3 site and the blog is now PR3 too - having a hard time breaking the PR3 plateau - any suggestions? just need more links to higher PR sites? in response to the PR comment before, of course PR is important: the higher the PR the better chance you move up the serps, the higher up the serps the more traffic, the more traffic the better conversion, the better conversion the more money....hmmm...rocket science!
How I did it (not in detail): 1. Bought 2000 hits via paid traffic 2. Posted on 5 forums 3. Submitted to about 5 directories that had heavy traffic and were industry specific 4. Let word of mouth take over (many people really underestimate word of mouth) 5. Free press release at prleap or prweb 6. Submitted to a few social network sites (digg, stumbleupon, del.icio.us) 7. Myspace bulletin to about 20,000 friends 8. Myspace profile... though I dont think this did very much It really wasnt that hard. I didnt submit to 10000 directories. I focused on quality rather than quantity and I think it worked out nicely. I dont have the site/domain any more... but this was just last april / may.
My oldest site has a PR5 after five years now (back then there was no such thing as Google or Google PR ), the rest took between one to two yeas to get a PR between 3 and 4. - MENJ
Blimey.. 3 months to hit PR5. I'm really missing out if it's that easy. I have posted on plenty of forums, blogs, and social networks. I suppose next up is submitting more posts to article directories, submitting to blog directories and perhaps even a press release (once I've got my unique poker widget working properly). Thanks for your replies!