What pagerank will i get ...

With incomings from 1xPR9, 1xPR8, ~10xPR6

[imran]

I + my team have launched a new site but thanks to this forum and lots of linkbuilding work from my team who also understands google pagerank, we've got links during the 3 weeks from:

1xPR9 (that has about 50 links on it, only ~15 external)
1xPR8
about 5xPR6
maybe 30xPR5
some lower

Most of these links are 4+ days old.

Most of the incoming links will use the same link text as the title of the homepage, or similar.

We've seen heavy googlebot activity, and about 50 of our 500 content pages are already listed as cached.

But, as you probably know, there's been no update! So I still have a grey PR.

Any guesses for our PR after the update? 5? 6?

Thanks
Imran

[Pegasus]

You should get a high 6, maybe 7

Where did you get a PR9 link from?

I'd be curious to know.

I tried to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, by following the river of PR upstream, but all I found were large corporations. :P

[Shak]

be very careful of some PR9 pages.

although backlink will "show"

PR will NOT be passed on.

Shak

[ExtremeExports]

If the links are only 4+ days old, they more than likely weren't crawled during the deep crawl. You will probably not see your PR in the tool bar until the next update.

[doc_z]

Estimated: a medium PR7.
But it depends on the number of links on the PR8 site and the exact PR of the PR9 and PR8 site

[Shak]

interesting to note that Imran does NOT mention what positions in serps or how many keywords he is trying to rank high for.

Not trying to be negative, but NO point in having high PR if there is NO traffic.

Shak

[imran]

pagerank 9 : without going into detail, our site promotes open source software, and we managed to get a link from the one of the world's key open source sites.

thanks for the positive news everyone. now i'm just as desperate to 'do the google dance' as everyone else!

regarding keywors, we hope to rank highly for lots of
combinations of

'open source' + 1 or 2 other words

imran

[bluecorr]

>be very careful of some PR9 pages.
>although backlink will "show"
>PR will NOT be passed on

Huh? I don't understand, how come it doesn't pass PR? Then how do sites get PR 9 and PR10? I understood that no matter how many PR7 and PR8 backlinks you have you need to have at least a backlink from PR9 or PR10 to get PR9?

[Pegasus]

When you say you have a link from a PR9 place, do you mean the main site has PR9, or their links page has PR9?

[Shak]

Huh? I don't understand, how come it doesn't pass PR? Then how do sites get PR 9 and PR10? I understood that no matter how many PR7 and PR8 backlinks you have you need to have at least a backlink from PR9 or PR10 to get PR9?

the fact that "they" have a PR9, does NOT mean PR will be passed on and make you a PR8, 7, 6 or even a 5.

Shak

[Pegasus]

Shak - Why wouldpagerank not be passed on? Are you suggesting they might be javascripting their links or using some other PR damming system?

Generally, it seems to be the case that if you get a link from a PR9 page, you'll get and automatic PR7.

[pmac]

I think that Shak is referring to some sites that are known to have high PR but that the PR is not being passed due to some type of filter (penalty) set by Google.

I'm sure Shak will correct me if I am wrong

[Shak]

I think that Shak is referring to some sites that are known to have high PR but that the PR is not being passed due to some type of filter (penalty) set by Google.

as Manuel from Fawlty Towers used to say.

I know NATHING :)

Shak

[ciml]

Shak's comment is more relevant to some industries than others. A major open source site as Imran describes is unlikely to carry the 'has PageRank but can't pass it on' penalty.

Pegasus's comment is important Imran. It's the PageRank of the page you're linked from that matters.

There's an extra thing to keep in mind. If the links were added since the last update, then they may appear in this update or the one after.

The pages linking to you were probably visited around the 6th February (maybe earlier for the PR9). I don't know if the February 15 (ish) mid-cycle crawl can count for backlinks or not.

Anyway, you can be pretty sure that all those links are in place for this crawl (and the end of March update).

[BigDave]

imram,

Given that you were able to get such links from the big players, I don't think you even need to worry about your PageRank. Most OSS sites have much higher PR than they ever need, you will be getting lots of links. Don't be surprised to find yourself a high 7 or an 8 in a few months.

What you might want to spend more time thinking about, is how you are going to share the wealth with other worthy sites. With a PR7 site, you can really give a boost to a small but worthy project that could use a few more hackers working on it.