Hey guys, I have a few domain names ranked google PR3. I am parking them to earn money but I was wondering will this page continue to hold its PR3? or will it eventually go back to 0? I appreciate your help brains!!!! Daniel
The only reason any site has a Pagerank in the first place is because of inbound links. So whether or not those inbound links will stay after your domain goes into 'parking' mode, that's the real question. If the inbound links stay, then sure, the PR will stay as well.
So is there anyway to monitor the number of links inbound in your site? and whether they are changing? Also, is this inbound link factor the main base of calculation for pageranks? does that mean the more inbound links there are, it will definately result in a high pagerank? Thanks Dan
Google only shows a portion of backlinks, but you could use the keyword tracker http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/ to keep track and give you an idea. PR is 100% about inbound links to your site. The PR of the site linking to you, as well as how many outgoing that page has, determines the PR it passes to your page. (1) link from a PR7 site could, in theory, make your site a PR6 or even PR7 - as long as your sites link was only one on the page linking to you. But no, an increase in backlinks does not guarantee an increase in PR. You can have a site with 1,000 backlinks which has a lower PR than a site with only 1 backlink. I wouldn't worry about PR too much. Links from sites related to what your site is about is more important than PR. Anything up to a PR5 should be able to be obtained with some work. Each increase in PR (PR5 to PR6) is approximately 6 - 8 times harder.
The best way to check all links to your site is search linkdomain:www.mysite.com in Yahoo. This appears to be very accurate.
Thanks for your info so far guys. So if I am parking my domain, I am obviously going to have alot of outbound links right? And you are talking about backlinks. What are they? How are links to my site created - if I have 400 links to my site, does that mean 400 people have put my website address on their site? Are google ads and stuff counted as a link to my site? Thanks Dan
If you have 400 backlinks it means 400 web pages have linked to your domain. Would think it hard to have 400 backlinks to a parked domain. Shannon
Outbound links have nothing to do with your pagerank. Backlinks are people who have placed a link, on their site, to your site. If you park your domain, it won't likely have original content and could be dropped from the google index. Google ads are not counted as backlinks and pass no PR, nor do they help your rankings. A PR3 is easy to obtain, and could easily be the result of a single link to your site. Without content, you aren't going to get search engine traffic and I wouldn't worry about losing the PR3 as there is little value, if any, in a PR3 by itself. The domain name and age of the domain would have more potential value.
not to be too nit-picky (sp?) here, but that's not completely right. outbound links can get you penalized which sets PR to 0. That's one instance where outbounds certainly have to do w/pagerank. Outbound links can also affect the PR of your inner/sub pages. For example, if you have 100 outbound links and 3 links to internal pages, those internal pages won't get as much PR as they would if you had just 2 outbound links.
how often does google review its pageranks? has anyone parked a pageranked site and then it lost it, or is all this the theory of how it works? Also, what types of outgoing links from my site would cause it to be banned from google? and be stripped of its pageranks. You guys have been really helpful. Thanks ;-)
Same questions raised in my mind, how do park domains have PR of more than 2 if they are just parked and without suffecient inbound links?