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According to Google I rasied that to 668 this month (ethically ofcourse guvnor), most of which are between 4 and 6.
Yet although I can see the new reslts on www.Google my PR has remained at 6.
Have I got the system wrong.
Dub'ya
Every link you add - adds PageRank, but as you climb the PR ladder ter the spread between the next level higher is much farther away.
If you are listed in Google Directory and in a category with numerous other PR6 sites/pages then you can appreciate how much further you need to go to get toolbar PR7.
If the site directly above you is a PR7 - this will happen relative soon (moving up).
If there are a few PR6 sites/pages between you and the lowest listing at PR7, then longer.
Great info, fathom - news to me!
Yidaki surfs to directory.google.com ...
OK, fathom, 3 more page are listed above mine at the google directory. We all - including me - have a pr of 22 pixel. ;) (translated = pr of 6). No higher pr page is listed above ours. Guess, that's a bad example for your tips cause how can i know now, how hard the work will be to get a pr 7?
Just no guarantees what that difference is though.
In my section of the Google Directory there were about 20 sites with PR6, and a couple each of PR 7 and 8 - last month my site was about No. 15 of the PR6 sites. This month my site is No. 2, there is just 1 more PR6 site above me. Interestingly I gained about 220 links but most of these were internal pages of quality content which I added, and I currently feel that while it is worth requesting links, to get the quantity you need by requests alone is rather artificial, and ultimately time that might be better spent on making content.
That said, does anyone have any good strategies for obtaining large numbers of relevant links without using automated queries? At the moment I just work through the sites that link to my competitors and ask for links, but tips on streamlining this process would be really great. Google seems to value quite highly internal links, and for me time making content is ultimately the most rewarding, and so far is getting tangible results each month. Oh, and if I keep to my 200 or so pages of content a month, are my chances reasonable for next month to have me as a PR7 site? :) That March update fever is gonna spread to April, I can feel it.
all the best,
Jeremy
What I have been doing recently to build high quality links is looking at which sites I already send a lot of traffic to, and contacting them for return links. If I send them hundreds of visitors a day, there's a good chance they already know it from their referrer logs.
Of course I wouldn't suggest that I would remove their link if they refused to comply (I might actually do so depending on the circumstances, but I wouldn't threaten it).
Depending on your field and your content, continuing to add those content pages may be the best thing you can do to get external links.
When the content is good enough, you will start picking up lots of no effort links. That is probably the reason that your internal pages appear to be making such a difference, you are probably picking up some deep links. Check your backlinks on some of those internal pages and I bet you will find some external links that you did not know that you had.
fathom, to me it looks like the listings above mine are just ordered by their title alphabetically. So your guess is that they are ordered by dezimal (real) pr?
In Google Directory you have two selections -- alphabetically & by PageRank level. The latter is what I am referencing.
The real trick with PR is quality, not quantity. My main site has a PR of 6. It is on a very specialized topic, and this is huge for a site on that topic. There are only 2 pages with a PR7 out there I know of on the more general topic, and these are huge, comprehensive sites with tons of links. I got to PR6 (ethically of course guvnor) with just a handful of quality, high PR links. You either need a ton of low PR links to get to PR7, or a few really high PR links. Happen to have a cousin Kim with a PR7 or PR8 home page you can ask a favor of?
