My page has a better PR despite the following

I'm not complaining

[kriskd]

I am absolutely thrilled with my PR of 5. Often I surf around and look at pages with a similar theme as mine. I won't say "competitors" since I just fun a fun site and don't make money off of it. In fact, I maintain links to these other sites like mine.

What pleases me at the moment one other particular site only has a PR of 4, but has many more links to them than I do according to marketleap. At the moment, they have 1,445 and I only have 198! Also, their site has been around much longer than mine.

For what it's worth, I have more content and keep my site up to date. And in my humble opinion, I like the look of my site better.

I know PR is a complicated formula, but certainly I would have expected this site to have a higher PR than me given what I stated above.

Thoughts?

Kris

[CCowboy]

It's all about inbound links...

[onedumbear]

algo rythms are designed NOT to be "all about" anything.
There are lots of pages in google results these days that show up in top positions for competitive keywords, that have no links to them.
I have a few pages like this. The only links to them is from the homepage, no incoming links, yet they show up top in the results over other pages with lots of inbounds.

[benc007]

I am definitely confused about how the algo works these days. A few of my sites have double or triple the number of PR4+ inbound links as competitors, but they rank lower in the SERPs. What is going on?

[ciml]

The important distinction is as follows.

PageRank is only about links*.

Google search engine rankings are not only about links.

* Taking into account dampening factors, filters, penalties and the rank source.

[benc007]

Is it safe to say more high quality, relevant, links mean higher PageRank which results in Googlebot coming by more often and indexing more pages?

[kriskd]

Perhaps my 198 incoming links are of a "higher quality" than the similar page I referenced in my original post that has over 1,400. Maybe that is why I have a higher PR.

[Goober]

Howdy,

My site has been up since July. I've written a lot of articles that are posted on pr5 sites and higher. I only have a handful of inbound links. My site was just deep crawled and came back with a pr4?
I'm also in the top 10 for one of my keywords.

I'm happy, but confused when I compare this to some of the other sites I've read about.

I'll just keep tweaking the site and see how much I can accomplish.

Thanks to everyone who posts here. It has been the basis for my success so far.

Goober.

BTW, Google just emailed me and reversed it's decision to keep me out of Adsense. Kewl.

[CCowboy]

ciml,

I agree...

Thanks