I've got a forum that i started in january and i noticed it already got a PR3 on a lot of pages. There aren't many backlinks to it so i was wondering how this can happen as my other sites took ages to get a PR3. I'm pretty sure that it's the only dutch forum covering that subject/keyword so maybe that's the reason? Also, how reliable is the pagerank when i check the crawlstatistics of my sitemap. If it's reliable, i think a PR4 is coming up.
I got a PR4 within 3 months of one of my sites going live. It also depends the relevance and PR of the link that's pointing to your site
Pr3 is completly usless, traffic is what counts. Yeah it cool to say my sight is Pr6 but I have seen more than a few that have a high Pr with slim to no traffic.
I agree to redgsr , I seen people having pgrank 6-7 but ok type traffic and sites with just 4-5 rank but a very good traffic. pgrank is just something to showoff to other sites.