I have a PR 0 blog that is ranked #2 for over 2 years (that drives very good traffic about 800 uniques a day) in google for a wide range of search terms, I have only 1 do follow backlink from a PR4 site and never really worked on SEO or link building. The only thing I noticed once was when I removed a video link from youtube then my blog just vanished from google, however when I put the link back then it magically returned to the #2 spot. Also I do not update regularly may be once in 3-4 months! So heres my learning: 1) PR does not matter in positioning in google 2) Number of back links does not matter 3) Very high quality nofollow back links from youtube etc matter a lot But then I thought I was really missing something... it was "Content", my blog was the first ever in the web to speak about the particular topic so may be google gives credit to that... whatever be it I really appreciate google for acknowledging my original content and showing my blog above even higher than a PR 9 site with millions of back links and that actually owns the product! So I would suggest working on "original content" to remain permanently on the top.. Just my 2c Dyx
same here, but for the main keyword my rank drop to 2nd page and for other keywords it goes back 10 pages,, i just continue link building,,,,,, now it is raising