Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
We have websites in many different industries and are coming out out with a few more in very non competitive industries.
In one of or more competitive niches most websites have a PR4 or PR5 and when you look at there backlinks they have a lot of sites link to them....PR7's PR6's and lots of high quality sites. Yet they manage only PR4 or PR5 themselves. Most of these sites are 3-5 years old and have 1000's of backlinks.
In our New Niche there are not many sites and the few sites there are have PR5's. I do a complete backlink checks on these sites expecting to see about the same thing as I do in our other industries. Here is the kicker. Both sites are less than 2 years old and have at the highest a PR5 incoming link and less than 200 backlinks. How can they manage a PR5?
Does Google make it easier to reach this high PR in less competitive and profitable industries?
<<No, PR is a Internet wide thing so even the top sites in a niche topic may only be a 5 with a rare one at 6.>>
what causes you to think so? asking because I have been seeing widgets in 2 very differently competitive cities and they have very different PR/link values.
widgets in 2 very differently competitive cities and they have very different PR/link values
I'd forgotten hearing that mentioned. I probably oversimplified my answer. I was just trying to make the point that it isn't easier to get high PR in a niche topic.
But mysterious things go on with Google and though I haven't seen any sites with different PRs according to search I'm not surprised it happens.
For the most part it's not worth trying to outguess Google. Better to build more good content pages (not overoptomized but making it clear to the SE what the page is about).
On an emotional level It's kind of a downer that PR has gone down on my pages but logic tells me my sites are doing better than ever in both Google and with AdSense and that's what counts.
YET the small site has a better PR? How
If you have a purely info site then it is pretty easy to aquire good ibl's. On the otherhand an ecomerce site is much harder. It all depends on the purpose of the site, as well as the industry.
Mack.
backlinks from PR 7 sites
What matters isn't the PR of the "site" (by which you probably mean the home page's PR) ... what matters is the PR of the page that is actually linking to you. That's usually lower than the home page, sometimes a lot lower.
The particular site in question had about 50 total backlinks. Non higher than a PR5 Page linking to it. We have hundeds and hundeds of backlinks with PAGES that are pr7 linking to us.
Why one specific page doesn't have PR it appears it should could be the result of a dozen or more reasons, and doesn't relate to the thread title.
And this is in reply to the guy that said SPAM - What are you talking about?
My formula:
1) Create the sub page (if that is what you are attempting)
2)Link that sub page on several (about 10+) subpages within the domain, including the home page.
3) If you have some strong older domains to play with, I link from the ones that have a good PR and that historically do well in google.
4) Wait about 3 months for some pixels to come in.
It seems to work for me as I have at least 200 or so PR5 pages on one domain and another 100+ or so on another etc.. I am not lkinking from any PR7 pages, only 3 pr 6 and the rest are 5.
I can understand what you mean though, but for me PR is not as important as gaining the top 3 organic spots. I personally think getting PR is much easier than getting 1,2, and 3.
And the answer is the first is normal, while the second could happen for a dozen reasons from sloppy webmastering to the inbound links not passing PR. Forget about the first, if you want to discuss various reasons PR doesn't get passed or how poor website construction can effect PR, you could start a thread on that.
