How long before google gives a page rank

[stevent37]

My addsence site been up for about two months now. I see the bots hitting and am getting a little traffic (about 150 a day mostly from msn) but am still not seeing any page rank on my toolbar.

[Tearabite]

i got mine (straight to a PR5) after about 2 months. but i think it depends more on when G does the ToolBar PR updates, than on how old your site is.

[stevent37]

thanks, did you start recieving more adsence imporessions after you where assigned a rank? I noticed I have recieved very little traffic from google so far

[youfoundjake]

Odd, I went straight to PR5 also, is that like a default that drops or lowers over the next coming months? A friends website that has been around since august that gets 10 times as much traffic as I do has a PR2.

[swa66]

PR isn't related to traffic levels, it related to popularity in the linking game.

Established sites typically level out at a certain PR and a certain traffic level.
In the beginning you might have more traffic than the links warrant for, because e.g. you buy traffic.
Those playing the game in getting links: the reverse happens, you get links without the traffic to justify it.

PR is just intended to try to measure the popularity in having incoming links. But the toolbar doesn't show the real PR.

[Tearabite]

Correct - PR is not realated to SERPS, which will determine your traffic.. and the toolbar PR is not "real", and it only changes once every few months.. the REAL G PR is constantly changing, updating, migrating, transmorgifying, and.. well, you get it..

I didnt start getting any real traffic until about my 4th month - but i've read of M A N Y sites that don't get anything for a year or more (the dreaded SandBox effect)

[bb_paul]

Hi,

I am currently experiencing a similar effect, with a site about 3 months old now. I believe the last PR / Backlinks update was just after they implemented Big Daddy, which I just missed out on.

However something that is interesting - if you are using Google Sitemaps as well - is check the PR reporting on GS, mine is actually showing a low PR rank for all pages (is this 1-4?), yet ToolBar and all Data Centers are still showing 0. Perhaps GS is a more accurate reflection of your current PR..?

One thing is for certain. All you can do is just keep building links and keep your content fresh and the spiders excited - this will ensure that you get the highest PR you can as and when a Toolbar update is done.

Of course, as others have mentioned, PR doesn't have any relation to traffic - it is only a small influence on the SERPS, despite the above I am still clocking about 150 visitors referred through G a week - not bad but way behind MSN.

[sandpetra]

I was experiencing typically 3 months up to now to expect to see a page assigned PR. You do not need a PR value if you are creating new pagews on a PR 5 site for instance to get theminto the serps.

Link a new page from your home page and you could see new pages topping serps within days - I did it last week - and they were competitive keywords.