Just checked seo-chat's future page rank page and saw my new site got PR 1 in all data centers except two. So the update is almost finished. May be we have a new PR by end of this month. A secondary question. What do you think a PR 1 for a one month old site is good?
Over the weekend I saw the PR equalise over all datacenters. This morning 2 have changed back to previously values. I think tihngs are still updating.
schur - what ?? you'll have to explain that more. What's the google toolbar got to do with anything ?
Depends on how much time you spent on it. My 3 week site went to PR4. I spent a LOT of time on it though.
my 1 month old crappy site got a PR3 in this udate AFTER i moved it to a new domain. But atleast I know I have 1 PR3 backlink now
It depends on how many sites compete with your site. Mine is a hosting one and u know how many of them are out there. lol.
Your PR has nothing to do with how many sites compete against you. I am in a very competitive market as well and my brand new site (a month or so old) got a PR4 from this update with only a few backlinks. PR is not a good indication of anything really, as my very structured tests have shown. DS
darqSHADow, i saw u have 70 link backs. i have just 20+. and ur site is cool. i liked it. lots of content. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/gamedev/public_html/rss.php on line 29 ... I found this on ur site. Fix it.
The website I was talking about was the GDRL (http://www.game-development.net) -- according to my searches I see 8 links that are not from itself. Of those, 2 of those links are from another one of my own sites, on the same server. The site is a month or so old, and now has a PR4, including many of its internal categories. Now, my Truevision3D site (http://www.truevision3d.com) does have 70 backlinks reported by Google (it actually has more than 2000 actual backlinks), and the site is well over 3 years old, yet still at PR5. (Was PR6 until Google made an algo change awhile back that dropped us to PR5, where we've been stuck ever since.) Btw, the bug was fixed, I was testing to see if the RSS feed was still invalid when you checked it, I guess. DS
Worry about traffic and conversions, not PR. That said, PR 1 isn't good - IMO its the worst you can have. At least PR 0 there's a good chance your page just hasn't been around long enough to show PR (toolbar). PR 1 is okay if you've got it on your interior pages on a site that has tens of thousands of pages, but for a homepage I hate to say its terrible but it sorta is. At least only one way to go IMO 1's and 2's look bad. If that's all I know about a site I have a bad opinion of it unless they can prove that its a good site some other way via reading the content, etc. For a 1 or 2 you need to convince me you are worthwhile, where as for a 3 or 4 I'll have an open mind, and a 5 or above you've got to convince its bad otherwise I'll give you the benefit of the doubt... Speaking mainly of value of links and/or overall impression of the site...