Confused on How We got PR of 6?

Clients website has a PR of 6 but how?

[shawn]

I have a client whom I re-designed and did some light optimization for. When we did the site 6-7 months ago it started out at a PR of 4. I thought this was good considering there only about 8 pages in the site and 2 of them have no content yet(the client has dropped the ball here).

I had submitted the site to DMOZ, which is now listed in. Ther are 10 back links total most are a PR of 4-5.

I would have never guessed that the site would be a PR of 6 now? It was a PR of 5 for a long time and I was really happy with that.

I have always thought a PR 6 site would need more content and backlinks?

I would like to duplicate this effect for my site which has 91 backlinks and about 35 pages and a PR of 5.

Shawn

[bhartzer]

I've noticed that sites that are listed in the DMOZ directory have increased PR lately. I have checked many different categories and it appears to me that a lot of them have increased PR, which would increase your client's site's PR. I have also noticed that certain categories in the Google directory have increased their PR, as well.

[plasma]

I have always thought a PR 6 site would need more content and backlinks?

PR is solely computed by incoming (blabla) links.

[seofreak]

whats that particular directories PR?

[shawn]

I've noticed that sites that are listed in the DMOZ directory have increased PR lately. I have checked many different categories and it appears to me that a lot of them have increased PR, which would increase your client's site's PR. I have also noticed that certain categories in the Google directory have increased their PR, as well.

I have 2 seperate listings in DMOZ - has not helped me that much!

As far as content goes I have always thought the more pages you have and those pages are linked back to your main index that would help with PR - PR is both external and internal linking.

This site has very little of both - just seems weird that it has a PR of 6 fro this site.

If anyone wants to Stciky me I can give you the link and maybe you can shed some light on how thi ssite acheived a PR of 6. I am not complaining mind you - but I would really like to be able to duplicate whatever I did right.

Shawn

[michael heraghty]

Did you get a link from a site with PR7 or more?

[bignet]

It is not that strange to have a pr of 6 in your case

first pr is computed on the fly according to some and I had a website jumping to 6 to settle later at 5

secondly if your website optimized and/or have unique content there may be many sites linking to you (esp those using &s=keyword1+keyword2) you do not know about

3_ pr of the toolbar is not that accurate

[trillianjedi]

I have always thought a PR 6 site would need more content and backlinks?

What Plasma said.

Also, PageRank is computed on a per page basis, not site.

TJ

[ogletree]

Sites seem to get PR a lot quicker these days. i have a site only a few weeks old and it has a PR6 with only 2 liks that I know of going to it. Of course one is a PR6 and the other is a PR7.

[shawn]

Did you get a link from a site with PR7 or more?

This iste is linked to my site under the portfolio section which is a PR 5 page. it then has a link to the DMOZ dirctory, Directory.net(pr4), and newhoo.com(pr4). The rest of the backlinks consist of teh internal pages of the site which are now a PR5.

Also, PageRank is computed on a per page basis, not site.

I understand this, however, if you looked the factors that go in to page rank...which I may have wrong:

1. Number of internal and external links pointing to that page

2. The relavancy of that page(content).

It still amazes me that it has such a high PR..but I am not going to sweat over it too much.

Just going to be happy for it!

Shawn

[steveb]

Content doesn't matter for Pagerank. And you didn't say what the dmoz category PR is. If it is PR7, or possibly PR6, then that's it, no mystery. Also, a change from PR5 to PR6 could easily have occured because many DMOZ categories went up one PR point last update as Google was doing a better job crawling the pages (previously DMOZ was serving up a lot of errors).

Oh, you said the newhoo link is PR4? Well then the DMOZ link is defintely either PR7 or PR6. Mystery solved.

[JayC]

I understand this, however, if you looked the factors that go in to page rank...which I may have wrong:

1. Number of internal and external links pointing to that page

2. The relavancy of that page(content).

Number 1 is pretty much correct, but not just the number of links: it's the number of links and the PageRank of the linking pages, and the number of outgoing links on those pages.

Number 2 does not play a part in PageRank calculation.

[shawn]

[quoteOh, you said the newhoo link is PR4? Well then the DMOZ link is defintely either PR7 or PR6. Mystery solved. [/quote]

Amazing..the DMOZ is a PR7....thats a lot of PR boost!

One category I am under in DMOZ is a PR5 and the second listing is on a PR0 page :(

Maybe that will change soon.

Thanks for everyones input.