PR0 is not the end of the world

at least for some sites...

[Boaz]

Just did a search for a pretty competitive single word keyword (11,400,000 results in Google), and at no. 6 I found the home page of a site with PR0 (white bar, not grey). So it appears, as was already said by some in the past, that PR is not everything - a site can rank well even with a PR0...

As due to the board's TOS I can't post the keyword nor the site's URL, you'll just have to take my word for it :).

[disclaimer]I am in no way affiliated to the site in question.[/disclaimer]

[HuhuFruFru]

absolutely, my two sites both have still pr0 since the last google update (before that, they hadn't been indexed), I don't know why, there's nothing I did wrong I'm sure. but I'm really okay with that, there are so many phrases and keywords with 100,000's of results and where I am in the top ten. I hope my pr0 doesn't change! :-)

[BroadProspect]

I wonder how many link backs are to that PR0 site and what is the keyword density and freq.

[HuhuFruFru]

I did brett's ranking tipps and optimized each of my 140 sites for one specific keyword or phrase...

I have a lot of backlinks but they simply do not show up (a lot of pr4, a few pr5, and 2 pr6).

[tigger]

yes, but the only problem with a PR0 site is getting other sites to link to you

[lazerzubb]

Boaz, what you might be seeing is "fresh site", check the whois db, and see when it was registered, also check with alltheweb.com using link.all:www.domain.com or something similar.

It seems like we've seen an increase of site's with no PR in the bar, even though it has loads of inbound links, and still ranks well.

Might just be something Google is testing, or might be a glitch.

[ciml]

Boaz, come the update you might find that those sites are not PR0 any more. I've been noticing the same as lazerzubb. As we progress through the month, the Toolbar PageRank becomes a worse indicator for SERP placement.

Personally, I put it all down to the Everflux. The Toolbar uses the link map from the last full crawl, but the Everflux results are taking high PR links into account much more than in the past.

What I haven't decided yet, is whether the backlinks are taken into account during Everflux only for new listings, or whether adding a high PR backlink to a low PR page mid-month can boost it. If the latter, then we have reached the 'continuous change' situation that I recall WebGuerilla predicting early this year.