Is PR5 Difficult

[futureX]

I know that the Google PR Algo is logarythmic, but I'm surprised at how many more links I have to get before I get from PR4 to PR5, I had maybe around 10 - 15 links from sites, all with PR < 4 so they didnt show in google with "link:" then the next month those links were still there and a further 78 links with PR > 4 (from around 25 unique sites most of them PR4) were also added and this number still keeps rising.

Does this sound right to you guys? Or am I not going up because I need like a PR7/8 page to link me?

[Fiver]

I'm certain you don't need a pr 7 or 8 at you to achive a 5. A good number of other pr5 sites pointing at you should do it, a few pr5's and a couple of pr6's would do it a whole lot quicker.

[HyperGeek]

It's said that most of what you do to achieve a PR has to be doubled to reach the next PR.

So to reach a PR5, some theories has proven that you must do twice the work you did to achieve a PR4...and so on. This is why a lot of good sites get stuck at PR5 or PR6.

And don't forget to increase your content, keep your site fresh, and don't igonore the benefits of DMOZ.

[JonR28]

My personal site took absolutely no effort to reach PR4. I think PR4 is a gift if your site has a little content and exists for a little time. I have had all of "2" backlinks on my personal site for about 3 years now, and it has always been a PR4. I don't care about that page's PR or Links because it is a personal portfolio I use for clients, not to attract new ones. No optimizing, no alt tags, not much text, only about 8 pages of content... and it's a PR4. The company I am working for has a PR6 with about 600 good backlinks.

[petertdavis]

Once you get your first PR5, then the rest are easy. Then, you'll be thinking how hard it is to get a PR6, LoL. If you have all those links from PR4 sites, probably just one good linke from a PR5 site will push you up. I think there's something screwy with the toolbar right now, so don't hold your breath on anything happening soon. Could be you already have a PR5, just don't realize it.

[ciml]

The content is important for rankings, but PageRank is just about links.

> So to reach a PR5, some theories has proven that you must do twice the work you did to achieve a PR4...and so on

You certainly need n times the raw PR for each notch increase on the Toolbar and I'd be surprised if anyone doubted that now, (i.e. log scale), but I wouldn't say that n=2. A lot of people say 6 or 7, I believe significantly higher. By the way, the rules break down beyond some number of links per page (maybe 100).

One other thing, you normally need to wait one or two updates [webmasterworld.com] for the PageRank to be affected by new links; maybe futureX has a pleasant surprise in store.

[chicagohh]

I bought one 2 months ago for $9. Everything is still solid.

[AthlonInside]

Start from last 2 months, PR no longer important in ranking. They are no really a page rank stuff intended for the toolbar viewer to see a quality of a site and that's all, nothing more to do with SEO.

Many one has seen it and says that PR0 site rank well then PR7 or even higher these days.

[Giacomo]

Difficult? I don't know.

Not long ago, a single dmoz listing in a PR6 category page used to do the trick.

But now PR on the toolbar is all messed up.

I really don't know.

Better forget about PR for a while, and focus on building content/getting relevant links.

[John_Creed]

You need a link from a PR6 page. A link from a DMOZ catagory that's a PR6, as just mentioned, should get the job done.

In general, you need at least 1 link from a site that's +1 PR above the PR you're aiming for.

example...

If you're trying to get a PR6, you need a link from at least one PR7 site.

That's not the only way to do it, it's just the easiest way.