PageRank is not Solely Based on Backlinks
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There will be a lot of people which may disagree with my observations, but I think PageRank (PR) now is more flexible than before, and it is determined not just on the basis of the number of backlinks pointing to a particular page and is also not based on the old mathematical calculations used to assign the value of that little green bar in the Google toolbar.
Why do I have that kind of observation?
If backlinks is not the sole basis for PageRank, what are the other factors? I think content is still the key. Coupled with links (even for a few) from high authority sites and relevant niches, surely PageRank will be assigned to that particular site. Last time, I have a PLR article site with no PR at all. I started promoting the sites by linking it to relevant websites and submitting it to high authority social bookmarking sites. After two weeks, Google began updating the PR of sites and would you believe my sites PR went to 4 from N/A? I was even wondering why it happened. I was thinking that it was a mistake but as for my other sites, they experienced the same, climbing from 1-2 notches in their PR value.
Take this blog for example. The very first post made on this blog was dated September 1, 2008 and if I remember it right, I just installed this blog a day earlier that is August 31. Two days ago, Google again updated the PR of websites and to my surprise, this site’s PR rose to 3 from nothing, and the site is not even a month old. You can even check the number of backlinks this site have and you will really think why the hell it has 3 when it has a little number of links pointing to it. I have proven this method to many of my sites and I am sharing this to you my dear readers. You may want to experiment first on one of your sites and I will be glad to receive your feedback and your own observations.
If you allow me to share, here’s my definitive list of must-haves to have a good PageRank even if your site is relatively new.
- Quality content. It doesn’t have to be 100% original, but still the keyword is QUALITY.
- In-content links on relevant PAGES.
- Sitewide links on relevant WEBSITES.
- Links from authority sites (quality social bookmarks, content pages like Squidoo)
- Good layout of websites. Not spammy and full of ads.
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dusan said:
This is short but nicely casted light to great myth of Google PR system.
I am not sure about it, but in my view, Google give preference to blog publishing in a great extent to the classic sites.My site’s homepage, for instance, is just PR3 (only from recently) even it is online for more than a year, it is well SEO optimized, and has a bunch of a relevant backlinks (including Wikipedia, social bookmarks, Squidoo and similars). Not to mention that I achieved a #1 SERP for my blog page keyword, and am still struggling to make the one for much more “easy” keyword fro which my hompage is well optimized…
This is not fair to the site owners who usually place a much greater effort in assembling the original content then ordinary bloggers .
I am looking forward to reading your future posts
Dusan.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:13 am -
seopaul said:
hmm right…. google PR is 100% based on links, just not the way your thinking. its not anything todo with anything other than the likley hood of a visitor reaching your page if they sat there and clicked from one site to another repeatedly.
this is why high pr sites pass more pr because a visitor is likley to be at that site… PR is just a popularity contest, that has been sadly messed up for years thanks to… now yr gonna kill me….. text link brokers… or online insurance salesmen as i call um.
and google has always been abit jumpy on PR values, in 2004 i got a new website a pr 5 in 28 days with only 4 links….
the problem is google have created a market that should never have been there in the first place, since they made PR public every website has somthing they can sell, problem being its screwed up the accuracy of their results… so out came a new ranking factor… Trustrank… a thing no one seams to talk about but heck, not many people read googles patent documents(obviously i do). its a non public ranking system thats a hybrid of PR and is basicly how much they trust you NOT to sell links…
so.. you see.. im not surprised they got rid of your PR as they have a system in place to hunt down websites that sell links.
October 13th, 2008 at 1:09 am
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