I have a personal website that just tells a little about myself (I'm a software engineer). I never update it. I hardly ever visit it myself. About 8 months ago it had a PR of 1. I just went to it today and it has a PR of 3! A PR3 might not be great, but it's not bad. I have NO IDEA how the PR rose. It's only a few pages. Here are all the things the site DOESN'T HAVE: * Doesn't have many pages (just a few) * Doesn't sell anything * Doesn't have a blog or forum * Doesn't have much content * No articles * No effort to get backlinks (and there aren't many) * Never advertised or promoted the site in any way * Never updated The site has VERY, VERY LITTLE traffic. What would make the PR go up like that? Apparently, without trying and with no effort, I've managed to raise the PR nicely. If anyone with PR knowledge would care to take a look at it, and post some opinions on why the PR might be 3, I, and probably many others, would be interested. I have another site I have actually put a little work into promoting, and that site only has a PR of 2! Here's my site: www.dansydow.com Any thoughts? Please post them! Dan
PRs get higher when external websites link to your website. So it should be that others have linked back to you and a 3/10 PR is not trivial, it's kinda nice for most websites. Maybe you have friends that have linked to your website quite a lot ?
As mentioned, the site has very few backlinks. And, I'm an engineer. If you know anything at all about engineers you'd know we have very little social life and very few friends, so I don't think it's due to friends supplying backlinks. Dan
I've seen things like this before. I worked on a clients site who had 1 backlink (pr3 deep page) and his domain was about 1 1/2 year old. The site was 5 pages and managed to pull off: PR4 Homepage PR3 Locations page (it was a table with the places he did training- very little content at all) PR3 Pricing page that literally had one sentence on it, "please call xxx-xxxx for pricing information" and then the other two pages were PR1's. Made no sense, still doesn't make sense. I guess you see a lot of strange stuff...My personal opinion is that this guy did 0 for the search engines. He just put 5 pages up, code wasn't valid, no back links, didnt submit to SE's, etc etc...and I think that Google recognized that and gave him some sort of authority because of it. Not sure. If you ever figure it out- PM me
Hi,,,DANPARKS! To increase PR of your site you have to a good work. First, you have to find out right keyword to promote (Keyword Research). You can use various keyword research tools to find right keyword. After getting right keyword, you have to promote them by various techniques as Forum posting, Article submission and Blog creation and updation. You can submit your site to various free or paid directories. By using these techniques, you can increase back link of your site, which also helps in increasing PR.. hoping,it helps you...
Dude are you on drugs or something? he is not asking for any seo help.. he just wants to share what happened with his site.
That's cool. I wish my website would do that. Have you tried googling yourself? And then have you also tried searching on Yahoo Site Explorer to see if you got any backlinks from some of your fans that you just don't know about?
Hi Danparks, I have almost the same situation. I keep a website about myself with a small blog (I think only 3 entries in a year!) and few articles (also about a year old). Have no time to update it but it is now PR4. I wonder where it would get in another year
dan, i would suggest you to add a Blog to iy, the site looks good, a blog wont cost you anything, and you can update it regularly, it will help you tremendously in the longer run!
I just used a tool (http://seopro.com.au/free-seo-tools/link-checker/) to check the backlinks for my site. Only 23 showed up: 1 PR5 6 PR2 3 PR1 13 PR0 The one PR5 link is nice, but other than that, it doesn't seem like a very impressive list of backlinks. Heck, I know some people with sites that have thousands of backlinks and their sites only have a PR1 or PR2 ranking. So I don't think the links to my site boosted my PR much or any. Dan
Hmm... that's interesting. It looks like you do have a few backlinks from higher PR sites, but it's still mysterious. If you figure it out, PM me. I'd be happy to know