Yeah, that happened, and I don't know why. For my other sites, I waited for months for a PR0 to be PR3. But for this recent site of mine, 1 week after I opened it, I got a PR3. And that was with just a few backlinks. I found it very interesting. My site was very popular though, and is very popular now with lots of visitors, which is a lot for a site that is one month old. I did some wordmouth advertising, and since it is original people keep coming back. But yeah, isn't it interesting to have PR3 one week after you open your site? That just doesnt make sense to me. Whjat does it mean? Will I suddenly get PR6 next time? It is unbelievable really, and I don't undertand why G liked my site so much.
Could you tell us when this happened? Since google will only update its PR around every 3 month, sometimes you have to wait 3 month, but sometimes not. Anyway, it's possible, because backlinks from similar and popular websites are very important. For those sell softwares, links from download.com and other software sites will help their PR verf fast. Number of backlinks is important, but linked website is also very important.
Well, my answer to you guys, you will find more interesting: I bought the domain around 3 months ago, and I learnt, later, that it was an expired domain. However, it had no backlinks whatsoever, and it was a PR0 for like 2 months. So 1 month ago, I decided to launch the site (even though I had the domain for 2 months at the time). And 1 week after I launched it, my PR went to 3 from 0. And yes this happened 1 month ago, despite people here claim that the last PR update happened 90 days ago. It just doesnt make sense to me.
I may be wrong but I've read that "G" has gone to a continuous update mode - gone the days of the "florida" update and such. I know that's for the serps but doesn't that apply to "pr" historically.
Toolbar PR updates are still rolled out every three months (give or take). As for the jump in PR, are you sure there were no backlinks? Google has had trouble displaying some of these lately, which could explain why none appeared. Also, even with no current backlinks, Google may still determine the site to be worth something, because of some factor(s) that was affected by the old site.
I don't think an increase in PR really occurred. I'm guessing there's just something wrong with your browser. Well, unless you can give us a link to your site to prove me wrong. --Joe
The next update is already happening in certain DC's. That can be the reason. TBPR may show PR3, but you should check other DC's.
Yup, I checked it with PR checker websites. I use checkmypagerank dot com usually. And I confirmed the result with prchecker dot com too. Also, I haven't even installed the toolbar, so i don't know the PR there.
PR is meaningless. You're not the first and won't be the last. It happens all the time to a lot of sites...
Since the boom in text link advertising, I wouldn't say it's so meaningless. I think the domain had some relevance and history with google and that's why the "quick" PR update.
Maybe. I recently made a test.php page in my PR0 www.mysite.com/test/ It's where I test some homemade PHP coding. When I'm done, I delete everything after transfering the code to the site. Guess what? www.mysite.com is PR0 (4 years old site) www.mysite.com/test/test.php is PR3 after 3 days!! No advertising, no links, no nothing. I did not buy www.mysite.com/test/test.php For now, It's blank and PR3 ... I should sell links and put them in there
Sounds like a glitch in the google-pagerank-reporting system if we have two sites that get pr3 out of the blue...