PR on domains with NO backlinks

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Chios, Dec 2, 2009.

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    My client holds a few domains that are underdeveloped
    - 1 1/2 year old .travel domains
    - have one page ORIGINAL CONTENT on them
    - The content is quite lengthy.
    - On the recent google PR update they all got PR2
    - no backlinks show up with Google or Yahoo
    - Google does not even report any indexed pages in some of the domains
    - domains were purchased new (not dropped)

    what do you make of this ? can anyone offer an explanation ?

    EDIT forgot to mention the domains where pointing for a brief period to a domain with PR4
     
    Last edited: Dec 2, 2009
    Chios, Dec 2, 2009 IP
  2. bobchrist

    bobchrist Active Member

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    That seems to be artificial pagerank boost through redirect.
     
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  3. Chios

    Chios Well-Known Member

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    What do you mean ?
    the domain was for a while pointing to an already developed domain with PR4
    would it borrow the pagerank from there ?
    and this what appears to be its own pagerank now ?
     
    Chios, Dec 2, 2009 IP
  4. Highwayman

    Highwayman Peon

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    I think it's likely that the point to a PR4 site has had an impact. Without creating backlinks, the content showed from this PR4 site must have given Google a reason to crawl and index it.
     
    Highwayman, Dec 2, 2009 IP