#1

how to get there?

[Wired Suzanne]

Can someone maybe explain it again to me? I still don't get it. PR is very important to get listed higher in Google. Then why am I with PR5 still at the bottom of my search? And pages with a lower PR are listed higher? I am listed at #94 now. I need to do something to move to PR6 or PR7, but how? I'm bidding now at the sponsored links, but I cannot keep up. The biddings are getting extremely high now. It looks like a war out there. Any tips to improve my PR on a short term? More linking?

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Suzanne

If you have not read this thread, you might want to do it. Quite a few members have learned something from it: [webmasterworld.com...]

But this works long term. If you want short term improvements of your traffic you may have to pay for it.

[Mohamed_E]

Wired Suzanne,

Google uses over 100 variables to rank sites, PR is only one of them. People who only concentrate on it are missing out on the other 99 factors :(

Read the thread that troels_nybo_nielsen pointed to, it is excellent

[Shak]

suzanne,

high PR is always good, but NOT the deciding factor to get you to #1 or even page 1 of the results.

many members here have shown me sites which have PR4 PR5 on page 1 competing against PR8s or 29,000 backlinked PR6s and 7s.

Shak

[lazerzubb]

Yes there is a tremendous amount of things you can do to achive higher ranking.

Brett's quick good ranking [webmasterworld.com]

Is a very good thread for seeing which is the most common valuable things when a search engine ranks a page.

I would also go through the Forum library [webmasterworld.com]

There the most valuable threads are saved, and trust me if you read most of them, you will learn a lot.