I got an Instant Page Rank of 3 and top 10 serps, but how?

[vabtz]

I have been studying on here for awhile now and I think I finally understand SEO for google at least.

I recently wrote an article ( on the 15th ) that is SEOed to the best of my ability. Nothing spammy at all.

Within a week I was in the top 10 in the SERPS for most of my keywords and the article had a PR of 3.

I expected good results but this seems a lot better than what I expected. At first I thought it was a boost from being a fresh article but it seems to be staying at the top now.

So I am baffled at how I could have achieved near instant results with google when I expected the article to be sandboxed.

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Does the sandbox apply to whole sites, sections of sites, or none of the above?

Anyone else had an experience like this?

[Brett_Tabke]

it is an inherited pr (or displayed pr) based on the rest of the site.

[Vec_One]

Indvidual pages don't get sandboxed - whole sites do. If your site is not in the quicksand, and is being crawled often, you can get a new page to #1 in as little as a day.

[nuevojefe]

how long has your site been indexed and how does the rest of the site do?

[vabtz]

My site has been indexed for 2 years
I didn't start really learning about SEO until I joined so I never focused on money making keywords.

But I have maintained a PR4 for about a year and a half for the home page and a PR3 for most of the major sections of the site.

I recently got very lucky and a competitor ( who happens to be a SEO professional ) published his log analysis in an effort to sell his site. Once I took a hard look at that and compared it to his site I understood everything that was being said on here.

So this page was my first real effort at SEO, with an education. I guess I did good. lol

Its not a very competitive set of keywords though.

still I am suprised at how fast it worked.

Side note: I am actually getting clicks on the affiliate ads from it and sales. Thats a first for me too and all due to knowledge I learned on here. If I could hug WWW I would. Guess I'll just get a memebership instead.