PR8 to PR9

What does it take?

[ukgimp]

I work as part of a directory site that has a PR of 8 and about 3600 inbound links. The site has been going since 1996. Just a quick query, more out of curiosity, what would it take to get to PR9. Is it a possibility

[TallTroll]

>> what would it take to get to PR9

Aren't you happy with PR8?!? As "toolbar" PR is a logarithmic value derived from "raw PR", it will require approximately as much effort to rise from 8 to 9, as it took to get to 8 in the first place.

So, only another 3,600 quality links (miminmum) to go then :)

>> Is it a possibility

Certainly. Just remember you're playing with the big boys here. Some examples of PR9s

cnn.com
inktomi.com
dmoz.org/Business/
google.co.uk

You ready to play at that level?

[caine]

direct links off the top pages of some PR9 sites, and drop the amount of low PR outbound linking from your own site, or hide the links from the search engines on none indexable pages.

[vitaplease]

Congratulations with your PR8 - still hungy ehh?

It will depend on if you are a low PR8 or a high PR8.
Remember the google toolbar ranking is a logscale of the actual Pagerank.
It could take 6 to 10 times the same number and quality of links you have at this moment if you are a low PR8...
It could also just take one dedicated extra link from a high PR9 page with few other links on it.

Do not forget that there are probably no more than 100 sites around that have a PR of 9 (that I know of) [webmasterworld.com...]
and: [webmasterworld.com...] so that would put you in a very select crowd..

If you are unfamiliar with the workings behind Pagerank, look around on this forum with the search function.

[Visit Thailand]

Could I ask though what if you cannot hide the url of a lower ranked site because it is part of a page and you have to include the link to make the page valid.

For example you are talking about topic X and you need to link just once on that whole page to the main page of topic X which has a PR of 4 or 5.

Or it is a new site and has not even been ranked yet but you still need to feature it.

Does this affect your PR and stop from potentially going from 8 to higher ?

[kapow]

Does low PR outbound links:
- Diminish your PR?
- Just hinder its growth?

[ciml]

I wouldn't worry about the PR of pages you link to. There is some PR dilution from linking to external sites but it's minor (assuming that 50+% of your home page links arent' external).