PR Immediately?

How?

[jk3210]

I just created a series of new pages that link back to the index page, and to my surprise they had a PR2 the second they were published --literally 5 seconds after I put them up on the net.

How can a page that Google hasn't even looked at have ANY PR?

The index page has a PR4 with NO back-links showing --which is another thing I don't understand. Doesn't zero links generally equal no PR?

[Helpmebe1]

jk, I am sure it is a google estimate.. my pages have a pr3, its not true though until you see it in the cache

[Nick_W]

Google guesses unindexed pages if they are part of a site with PR

Nick

[lavapies]

backlinks show for sites with pr between 4-5 .. you must be very close to them showing :-)

[jk3210]

Interesting --I didn't realize that's how it worked.

Additionally, I recently (yesterday) linked my other PR7 site to this PR4 site in an attempt to raise PR4s rank. Both sites are in the same travel related field, but not in the same city. I linked the PR7 site to the PR4 site, but I'm a little leary about linking the PR4 site back to the PR7 site, because the PR7 site is running #1 in Google for both of my main search terms and I don't want to mess that up.

Any thoughts?

[Nick_W]

Yes. Don't link back!

Better safe than sorry right?

Nick

[JayC]

backlinks show for sites with pr between 4-5 .. you must be very close to them showing :-)

I believe that has it backwards. The PR of the linking pages themselves is what matters; low-PageRank pages won't show as links. The PR of the page that's linked to isn't what matters.

[lavapies]

JayC

I was meaning that a site with low PR won't show incoming links in a "link:www.widgets.." query on google. Isn't that the case?

[lavapies]

p.s. i have some very high-pr pages linking to my new site but they don't show in a "link:www" query as my pr is not yet above 4. Are we thinking on different lines?