I found a site that is a PR5, with only 12 backlinks, one of the links is its own site the others are showing its expiring later this year and a DP link and one other no name site. How is this and I have a site with 1500 backlinks that were built overtime and good content and i have a pr0??? I thought the backlinks helped you out? What gives?
Google Yahoo! AllTheWeb AltaVista MSN HotBot Total 4 12 16 5 6 9 52 DMOZ.org Listed? - not listed. Domain age? - 16 days (According to Whois created on 19.01.2007). Domain history? - yes (30 results). With the www. its pr5 without www.its pr0
That's pretty good going in only 16 days. Take with a pinch of salt - there's no way it can be the right value. Which PR checker did you use?
Could be that the previous owner of the domain name had good quality content and backlinks and the new owner built a completely new & different website. You have to remember that the PR we see today is actually about 3 months old.
Yeah, either PR haven't been updated since previous instance of this site, or it's just some kind of mistake. Or maybe it has sticked with some other site? Check if G treats it as a mirror of some other site.
Domain ages are rarely reliable...what PR do those links have? A couple or so PR6+ links would be enough.
There could be various reasons 1) 2-3 quality backlinks {<10 OBL and PR6+} can give PR5 easily. 2) It could be fake PR. 3) It might have real PR but in next PR updates it could drop.
Yeah... I'm guessing that the site has good backlinks. Perhaps this is a matter of quality over quantity.
The PR algo is seriously stupid in some cases, I have seen sites with as little as three active backlinks having a PR5 while I spend hundreds of dollars and work my ass off making content and all I get is a PR4 max with 1000+ backlinks. IT
I know of a PR7 site that only has 153 B/L's - and when it first got the PR7 it only had 8 B/L's. None were fake, but it did have a single, relavent link from a PR8 site, and also a PR7 and 2 PR6 pages from that site. PR is all about the quality of the links, nothing to do with the numbers at all. If you are still chainsing the PR rather than SERPs top positions you still have a lot to learn. PR only has value to allow you to sell high PR links to gullable webmasters for extravegent prices!
It could be possible that some of the backlinks are from sites which high PR: say PR6 or PR7. Sometimes the site also gains PR with not many backlinks with age if it has fairly good content on the site. No big deal!
I don't care about PR, but its still a crap feeling. However you are right, it depends on quality, not quantity. IT