Hello I've been asked how come a site I own (www.physician.ro) has a PR5 but no inbound links. I have no idea. Where did that PR come from? Could someone please explain it to me? Did it happen to others too ? (reaching a relatively high PR without inbound links) The domain name is fairly new (Sep 2005) Thanks!
According to my Google Toolbar, the PageRank of http://www.physician.ro/ is 5. Seems like you were looking at http://physician.ro/, expertu
The page does have backlinks. Just because Google doesn't show them, doesn't mean they don't exist or aren't being counted. However, based on the limited backlinks that it does have and the fact that they've already been "devaluled" I would guess this page will drop some PR in a few weeks when the next update propogates; likely down to a PR3.
According to what I can see, your website still has some incoming links (like here (http://www.legaturi.ro/index.php?page=link&id=246&limit=70,10) or here (http://www.links24.ro/Sanatate/Medicina.aspx) , and some more). Perhaps this was enough to get PR of 5. By the way, Did you buy this domain name at Sep 2005 or this domain is absolutely new?
This is just a guess but it can be that you submitted it to this directory http://www.legaturi.ro which is a pr5, and google indexed the link when it was in the latest added links section "Ultimele 10 adaugate" In other words, you got lucky
Yes, there was an update 19-Oct so very lucky with the indexing and timing; however, the directory mentioned is showing a decrease, so likely this page will suffer a bit too as a result.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=link:http://www.physician.ro&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0 And the reason for your PR 5, is this page : http://drupal.org/node/33606 Which has a PR of 6, and the only external link is your website.
Good news - I want to share this with you all: It seems that it was not just luck. Somebody pointed out to me that I posted on a forum (drupal.org) on October 10, asking for assistance with the drupal installation. That forum post got quickly a PR6 (main drupal website = PR7). That must been the cause of the PR5 on the first update (October 19). I just checked, many other posts didn't get that PR, only a few - so it was a little luck there. Conclusion: post on high PR forums and include your link! Possible hint: install drupal on your website and discuss about it on the drupal forum. Question: what other high PR forums do you know?!
It isn't Michael. This is and was PURE luck from the beggining. I think his post was on the first page of the Installation problems category, when the PR update happend. So his page got a PR6 too (luckily). And even more luck : the only outbound link, in that page, is his URL
I think you're right, expertu. This was topic no: 33606. The topics 33607-33609 also got PR6, while the previous ones <=33605 and following ones >=33610 have PR0 or not at all. Your theory explains it. Cool!
Another one: this thread is very tough, a hard nut to crack Look at this post on drupal forum - the famous PR6 post that already made history: http://drupal.org/node/33606. It has a PR6, right ?! Okay, now search on Google for some text in that post such as "I installed Drupal on a new website" (with quotation marks). This page doesn't come up in the results? How can this be: a page to have a PR6 but seemingly NOT indexed by Google ?!?? I'm stunned. Does anyone have a clue?!
Hmm, technically an "immoral" person could simply reply to that post including their URL.... I'll be right back....
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http://drupal.org/node/33606&btnG=Google+Search The page IS indexed. BUT ... The page does not have the title and description and cache anymore. Why ? Because the real PR of this page now is like 0 or 1. This page does not have that PR6's category first page link. That was for one day maybe, exactly when the PR update happend (or before or after a little). Way to go man. You'll just have a link in a PR0 page at the next update. Immoral you say huh ?
Easy come, easy go........ That's thing with chasing links for page rank, page rank can be a temporary thing, so go for quality, not page rank. IHMO
I don't believe Google just bases site PageRank based on inbound links / backlinks. I believe that they also determine it by the amount of time the site has been up and running. Many websites these days, in Google's eyes, are non-quality and end up shutting down so Google is trying to not include websites that'll just close down in time and be out of their index. Also, I read that Google knows that some websites are just used for spammers for a period of time, and Google tries to not include them in their index.