Good job, yeah like Red_Virus said, its harder after pr4 pretty much. A lot of people seem to get to pr4 pretty easily though compared to any of the other numbers after 4.
I find that almost every new sites I launch goes from PR0 to PR4 in around six weeks, and then around 50% drop down to PR3 during the next PR export. I've just written a blog post on it actually, and I think it has something to do with the quality of the initial link that Google first find your site with. I've set up an experiment to try and prove this with some numbers - more later!
That's really interesting. I don't think I've ever heard that theory before. I'd love to hear the results of you experiment. It would be great if Google Webmaster Tools gave you the "First Found" date in addition to the "Last Found" date, it would help prove this theory.
PR5 in 3 weeks seems like a very good achievement. If you could share what you exactly did, or how many links you got in 3 weeks, that should help all of us.
Did not do anything special aout it, just concentrated on a good site strucrute, put a nice design up so that people get interested. Did not ignore SEO basics, and I got the impressive number of indexed pages at google that was giving me back a recod number of visitors, and I also had about 30 link exchange proposals in just a few days from launch. Included the site in related web directories, and put a note about it wherever I had a chance to..
i am still waiting for anyone who going to share their own strategy what did they do to go up to higher PR
I didn't use any "tricks" to get SEOyak to a PR5. I did the following: - announced it on my blog - posted about in on a few form, including DP of course - made comment on a lot of blogs that were discussing the banning of SEO sites from Digg All of these things gt me a few extra links from other people talking about it.
tlainevool, wss your domain older than one month, I mean you would have setup the site a month back, but is it out of the sandbox?
Nice to hear that you are happy with the visit number. Its just that its not that you have a PR2 that gets you the visitors, its your content.
whatsthedeal - it depends on what you're doing with your site. If you have a blog PR can be very important indeed because it will dictate how much you can sell text links or sponsored posts for. A jump from PR 4 to PR5 will mean at least $1000 per month more per blog for me. Of course to any other site PR is purely a vanity number and doesn't mean much at all.
Of course it matters. If I told you that you had a choice of getting a link of one of two sites. They are both the same theme, same age, same number of pages - but one is a PR9 and the other is a PR1. Which would you choose? Which do you think would show up in the SERPs. PR is an indication of overall backlink strength. I agree that a lot of people put way too much emphasis on PR, but don't tell me it doesn't matter.