Site with 2 backlinks has PR6

How?

[dodger]

Just noticed a site with only 2 backlinks has a PR6 - how can this happen?

I get 8,000 visits a week have 40 backlinks on Google - 800 in All The Web and I have a PR of 5?

[Macro]

You can get a PR6 with just one back link. If there is a high PR7 page with just one link on it and that link is to you... your page will be a PR6.

There have been some recent posts about spinning wheels trying to get a lot of reciprocal links to very little avail.

Also, the traffic you get doesn't necessarily affect the PR you're given. If anything it's the other way around.

[taxpod]

And don't forget that a page could have thousands of low PR inbound links that don't show up in backlinks.

[bekyed]

Which indeed will still count.
We find it better to get 20 pr3 links than one pr5

makes perfect sense.

Bek.

[IITian]

Which is more impotant to you - PR or the number of visitors?

[rfgdxm1]

>And don't forget that a page could have thousands of low PR inbound links that don't show up in backlinks.

And to the original poster, is he sure this *site* only has 2 backlinks? People may be linking to other than the homepage, and that PR gets funnelled back to the homepage via internal links.

[dodger]

Thanks for your replies, learning all the time.
Traffic is more importamt than PR of course but they go hand in hand as far as I'm concerned, it's good to get traffic and have a higher PR as well.
Interesting about how one PR7 linking to you only will give you a PR6 - I don't choose who I link to based on their PR rather their relevancy to my content and I have little control over who links to me.
Makes you wonder how relevant is PR at all when it can be influenced so easily - just because a PR7 site links to me only doesn't make my site better. Surely it's more important that a large number of sites link to you that are not from a link farm or similar? How that can be determined by an automated system is another matter.

[ogletree]

I have a site that is PR6 with 2 backlinks. I wonder if it is mine. It does not rank for anything. I know the backlinks are just 2. It is a brand new site I got it in 2 months.

[bekyed]

This is no great feat if you own lots of high pr webpages, just link them from an existing site or 2 or 3 or 4.
But do this properly and this will not be seen as spam.

Bek.

[dodger]

<<I have a site that is PR6 with 2 backlinks. I wonder if it is mine>>

I doubt it, but it may be a trend - perhaps if I get rid of all my backlinks bar 2 my PR will go up :)

[steveb]

"just because a PR7 site links to me only doesn't make my site better."

It means some site that other sites think is valuable thinks your site is valuable. Of ocurse this is a measure of your site being "better". It's not foolproof or more than just ballpark accurate, but it is usually a definite measure of quality.

"Surely it's more important that a large number of sites link to you that are not from a link farm or similar?"

Surely determing this is not easy by any stratch. Having a large number of sites link to you should mean basically nothing. It's easy enough to make a jillion useless sites, or to join a junk link program. Worthless. PR on the other hand can be manipulated, but it is perhaps 100 times more difficult to do. And, in general, higher PR sites are higher for merit reasons. There are plenty of exceptions, but given the choice between an on topic PR8 site and an on topic PR1 site, the PR8 will be much more useful the vast majority of the time.

[dodger]

Playing devils advocate - presumably this can be manipulated somewhat by buying ads on sites that meet the right criteria - SE's cant tell the difference between ads and links can they?

[nakulgoyal]

I dont know how but I got a new website of mine PR4 with no links. I know it has a lot of internal pages......but none of them have PR as well.....and almost 1000 of them got indexed......

This means PR0 also helps build PR.

[dodger]

Funny you should say that - I have another web site - new also that has a PR of 4 - not in Google as yet, not in the directory anyway. The only link it has is from the PR5 site of mine.