PR Results - Trying To Understand

expectation & reality very different

[austtr]

I thought I more or less understood PR factors but obviously I don't.

A new site was launched and was spidered within days. Inbound links followed from a 1 x PR6, 2 x PR5, 2 x PR4 and a handful of low PR pages. The PR6 and PR5 pages have very few other links.

Now that Google is showing the backlinks and PR, this new site is showing PR2. I had expected the links from the PR6 and PR5 pages to have a greater effect.

Any thoughts on the possible reasons? I'm not a ranking or PR junkie and this is not intended as a whinge... I'd like to fill a void in my understanding.

[TheDave]

I'm in a similar situation. Tonne of links but still no toolbar PR. So you should count yourself lucky you got up to 2 so quick. :) Sorry I can't fill that void. Probably just made it bigger :P

[ILLstyle]

Sometimes it takes time for newer sites to gain pr.
I would just wait longer, im sure the pr will increase.

[John_Creed]

A few questions...

(1) How new is the site and how long ago were the links added?

(2) How well are you currently ranking for different keywords?

[mil2k]

Sometimes it takes time for newer sites to gain pr.
I would just wait longer, im sure the pr will increase.

I agree. Also the fact that displayed PR is not so accurate. I have a site which has just the opposite scenario. It had a PR 4 on home page and I got 5 to 6 links. Now the Home page and some internal pages PR went to 5 which was a little too quick for me. ;)

[edited by: mil2k at 5:00 am (utc) on Aug. 14, 2003]

[jeremymgp]

Several folks around here reporting recent backlinks taking an extra month to come in, so that a high PR link in June will get crawled by Google pretty quick, but won't really make it into the index until August. I got a PR8 link in July, picked up by Google incremental indexing, and got from No.25 to No.6 popping in and out of some datacenters for a 4 milllion search term, but I expect that link will really come into its own over the next 2-4 weeks. I also had a PR7 link from Jan-June 2003, it showed up in the backlinks for the first time just this month! Backlinks and PR are still quite out-of-date, kind of like a longer-term snapshot of the web, but Freshbot is much more active these days and is picking up new stuff very quickly. Your links probably will have been picked by Freshbot, you just need to hang in there while they are transferred into the main index. For now, just keep on getting links and building content, you'll get there :)

Best,

Jeremy

[austtr]

John_Creed

(1) How new is the site and how long ago were the links added?

Went online in June. Links were added within days.

(2) How well are you currently ranking for different keywords?

Badly is an understatement. It started off well enough for primary keywords and then fell off a very tall cliff.... coming to rest at #400 or thereabouts.

[amazed]

I have a suspicion that google got more subtle about pagerank. I am not sure what the toolbar really shows nowadays.

Pagerank may have gone regional. So that for the regional SERPS regional links count most.

Google may not just add up pagerank, but take the most recent links, the number of links within a certain time period, ...any more ideas?