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My company's site has PR6 but when I check how many links are to it in Google I only get 2 results (both from the same site) - how is this possible? I thought you would need to have a lot of incoming links to get PR6.
when I check how many links are to it in Google
Google only shows a random sample of your backlinks.
Try checking in Yahoo, you might find that you have more links than you thought.
Presumably a PR7 or above would have roughly the same affect.
There is a complicated equation for page rank but you can clearly see a rough guide by looking at your site.
Pages linking from a PR5 index page tend to be 4, ones linking from them tend to be 3 etc. Rough, but not far out in my experience
I have a 3 year old domain which has just had one paragraph of text sitting on it. On one page of my other existing site I have a link to my one-page website. That is the ONLY link. The one page site has PR4. The page linking to it is PR3!
I never even thought to look at its PR value. But, now that I'm finally developing it I am very happy to start there!
Seems like the qualifications for fairly decent PR are a few links, no content and less than 3 years presence on the web. What a joke lol.
(this is my understanding) PR is the chance that you'll bump into that page on a random walk around the web. It's *calculated* based on the number and pagerank of inbound links to the page. It's strictly a number that's calculated and no quality or other criteria are attached to the calculation. The content of the page, or quality of the linking pages have nothing to do with it AFAIK.
That's why most seem to feel that Google doesn't pay it much attention anymore - PR has nothing to do with page quality or content. If linking is clean, one can easily suggest that PR is a signal of quality because why else would a page have a lot of inbound links? But link development isn't so clean anymore, if it ever was.
The old timers had it sooooo easy back when that's all they needed to worry about :).
There are 2 versions of how people see PR:
1. PR is awarded for number of quality links
2. Surfers perception about what PR means
Despite what is official or not about PR, if person A wants to think PR means quality, then who's going to stop them for thinking that? And what if 100'000 or a million wish to think that, isn't that deciding what PR is........
Problem is there are too many different explanations as to what pagerank is, means - when all it really is, is a clever tool designed to draw people in and create a buzz around Google. The only good thing about PR is that it's viral - and we aren't necessarily the major winners.
I have a new site that's been up a year and a half and with only a PR of 3 and maybe a few hundred or so links, it ranks in Google above competitors with PR's of 5 that have been on the net for years.
Right now I'm focusing on good tried and true SEO, a professional looking site with good content and I update pages almost constantly. Info on our site changes every week. I think the search engines like that freshness.
Another personal site of mine has hardly any links back and its' the same rank 3. It's wierd.
