agreed. pov is. that green toolbar is so outdated. im oblivious with what the heck that mathematical formula google uses. it's still unambiguous coz google doesnt explicitly state the real deal here (which is okay, anyhow) and for the speculations, it's empirical, based on experience. learning can mean delving info and relating from experience. im no guru, and the only thing I can relate is from what I have done (not some ubiquitous blabber you can get from everybody else) peace! okay to get on the topic. perhaps, we shouldn't making PR the biggest deal. It doesn't majorly affect sales and traffic, does it??
yes, The unique content of the page also will get impact in PR. So PR is based up on couple of factors.
I am not being confrontational here but HOW? SHOW ME THE PROOF Google have two elements to their ranking algo, being Importance and Relevance. Importance is purely PR which is a mathematical calculation based on the social networking nature of the internet LINKS. Relevance is based on all the other factors, and is based on LANGUAGE rather than NUMERIC. SO what I am asking you is to show me WHAT you are basing your statement on above. I am NOT saying you're talking crap, I am simply saying that I personally think yu are wrong, based on ALL the available information available from Google, USPO etc, so would like to see what you are basing this sweeping statement on. Can you tell me WHY you beleive that unique content affects PR? baring in mind that unique content is a relevance factor not an importance one.
I guess the position is based on 100 or so factors, PR being just one of them. PR is only based on backlinks math.
Nope I also think unique content doesn't affect PR directly. Indirectly, if you have interesting unique content people link to you and this is the reason search engine experts suggest you to take care about the content.
The site the OP posted about has apx 600 links according to yahoo site explorer. 3 are from wikipedia (PR 6 on all of those) Another is a PR6 ufo directory. There is also a PR 3 blogspot linking to them. That's why the site has PR.
its really long story. PR is really not only about backlinks.... but it also about backlinks... contents and unique topic or sites get easily good pagerank with out having a backlink.... but sometime some pr7 ot 8 links give our site high PR.
I think you and many are missing the point. NO-ONE is saying that good content will not help you GET backlinks and as such PR. What we are arguing about is that PR is from the LINK, and NOT the content. The original post alluded to PR somehow being created from nothing with no other factors than age. and this simply is not possible. useful content will attract links, but it is the LINKS that alter the PR not the unique content.
I don't really think it's about unique content. i was posting for my blog for so long. but, my site (w/c was an seo entry, hence, deleted/discontinued) w/c had lots of BLs, and some are focused on high PR directories and other sites, outranked my blog. Actually, here's the deal. Is the PR-minus-One rule true? Say for example, you are linked to a PR 5 site. With that, you can get Pr 4 (PR 5 site bl - 1 = your PR) this befuddles me
In THEORY this is how PR works. a page has a value it can pass that is called Page Rank. the MAXIMUM value it is allowed to pass, is 100% minus the dampening effect (around 15%) this gives the max available to be approx 85%. The available PR vote is then divided between the amount of links on that page. That is the theory, but the reality is that oft times a single link to your page from a pr6 with 10 or more links on it, can give you PR4 to 5. So there are obviously other factors that are involved that have been introduced since the original PR (Backrub) algo was written. Possibly relevance, possibly authority etc.
If they come from respected sources it is If the BBC, and reuters linked to your page, then you can be fairly certain that it is newsworthy can't you?
I couldn't agree more with the quote above. As it has been already mentioned trust is a completely different matter here. SE rank, also. PR is all about linking.