Google Page Rank

[zharlene]

By quality I mean sites that are relevant to your site and have good page ranking. Google penalizes sites that have many backlinks from poor quality sites.

Google watches to make sure your links are growing "naturally". What this means is if Google sees you getting many backlinks everyday, constantly, they will view this as "link spamming" and penalize your site. For instance, if you are gaining 200 links per day, every single day and a link trending chart for your site shows a constant, rapid up trend, Google will consider you to be link spamming and penalize you accordingly. It is better to get 10 links one day, wait a day or so, get 5 links after that, pause for 2 days, get another 10-15 links after that, pause again and so on. This is natural link growth and this is what Google wants.

So, you do not think it is a problem with your link quality or link growth rate?

10 links every other day? Are you serious? So when will the site get to PR 5...in a million years?

I spent the other day adding my site to web directories. I did that with my first site which jumped from PR0 to PR3 in 3 months and have never gone down. Many webmasters do that, they pay as many people as possible to submit their links to thousands of directories & sites. I think 10 links every other day is a bit unrealistic...

[flnazrael]

PageRank is updated in real time. Every few months (it is not on a schedule), Google does an export to the public datacenters which things like the Google Toolbar and PR checker sites use.

Real PageRank is also not 0-10, it's on a logarithmic scale. The 0-10 is a dumbed down version... the difference in a PR5 and a PR7 site, for instance, is usually vast.

However, less and less (and less) emphasis is being placed on PR as time goes on. TrustRank is more important now, at least in my opinion. TrustRank was developed to offset a lot of the low quality link spamming taking place in order to manipulate search results.

tccommerce.com/blog/articles/what-is-pagerank/

Just focus on quality links from relevant, established sites and you will do fine.


A client of ours had a PR1 site that was beating PR5 sites in search results for their primary term, metal roofing. Things like that happen all the time.