Why do Blogspot blogs have such high PR?

I mean c'mon.....

Ive been looking at a dozen or so PR6 blogs today on blogspot, none of which have many backlinks, or pages registered, or even good content.


yet .blogspot.com and .wordpress.org get such high pageranks with minimal effort.

Guess I should have been blogging on their servers instead of mine!!

anyone else noticed the same?

MOG.

 

wordpress hosted ones do because their tagging system is basically a PR silo (or linkfarm as it used to be called) Andy Beard pointed this out back in 06

http://andybeard.eu/2006/11/wordpresscom-linking-structure.html

 

It's because it's not it's own domain. It's counting blogspot itself.

ie. somesite.blogspot.com gets the PR and alexa ranking from blogspot stats. http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/somesite.blogspot.com

 

no it doesnt.... subdomain PR's are F all to do with other subdomains.

by your rationalle all free hosting websites would have the same PR if they were subdomain based, which they dont.

 

I don't think google gives any advantage to blogspot in real terms. Yes wordpress.com blogs are highly seo optimised if you choose the right tags

 

I agree in principal with the wordpress one, the other aspect I guess is the domains are all well aged... but Im sure that blogspot PRs are inflated in a heck of a lot of cases.

perhaps its google giving its own hosted pages preference

 

It is all because of tagging system

 

I think this all depends on how well the blog is optimized and the number of quality backlinks it is getting on.

 

I'll agree with wordpress that it gets high PR because of wordpress itself is highly optimized. But blogspot?.. Many blogspot blogs I've seen don't have high rankings (maybe we have different niches. ). Generally, when it comes to blogspot blogs, I agree with bobchrist that it depends more on how you optimize your blog.

 

Blogspot's main domain has PR, thus it's kinda passed to subdomains too.

 

Really! so they are linking it to each and every subdomain?

 

PR isn't passed to sub domains...

 

yet another example of the p1ss poor SEO advice given on this forum.... LMFAO...

 

I do believe blogspot blogs are indexed much quicker, cant say the same for high PR though..!

 

Makes me confusted on this. Didn't come across such arguments before

 

I think its all about visiting and voting.
In blogs, content are updated all the time and simultaneously increase the visitors and Rank too.

 

I saw this bloggers blog with a pagerank 9.
I was surprised. I had only 3 or 4 pages and no adsense.
filled with forex links.
and it was not updated at all with fresh content.

bloggers get first priority.

 

visitors is nothing to do with pagerank. pagerank is all about the age/incoming links/fresh content of pages,

my argument is that blogspot and wordpress subdomains, get higher pageranks than is warranteable for their content and incoming links.

ofcourse the TLDs are very well aged, and have a high incoming link domain figure, but that "shouldnt" influence the subdomains.

its just an anomoly of the current google algo.