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In another thread, someone pointed out that there were perhaps sixteen PR 10 sites. Generally web software providers, yahoo, google, computer manufacturers, and universities. Most major news sites have a PR of 8 or 9, the local paper much lower. In many areas, industries, or sports, there seems to be a limit to how high PR ever reaches. Usually the limit seems to me to be around 6, 7, or 8. Does any site on a single sport go higher than 8?
With an Alexa rating in the top 299 sites on the web, and access to lots of SEO tips, webmasterworld earns a PR of 7.
In any given category, it seems there is a limit nobody reaches beyond. Could they reasonably? In an area I've been studying, among thousands of sites even vaguely related to this industry, only one earns a PR of 7. It is a very popular and deserving site, run by professionals and supporting a large organization. There are half a dozen sites at PR 6, a bunch with PR 5, and lots from there on down.
Is PR 7 the natural limit in this industry? Would the whole industry need to be larger, or have a significantly larger web presence to move anyone higher? Is there room for several sites at this level, or does one tend to end up with the best ranking?
I realize that doing well on SERP's depends on many more factors than PR, but today I'm curious about how far you can go with PR. Any thoughts? Thanks for your help.
Industry sector: web-related will help
Product: Have a free download? (adobe acrobat reader)
Non-profit: Many .gov's and .edu's will only link to non-profit by policy, however good the "profit" content might be.
Language: certain languages have such a small inventory of webpages that the amount of potential linking (and Pagerank pass-through) is very limited:
[webmasterworld.com...]
So Pagerank is not completely comparable, but competition mostly faces the same dilemas.
