Hey if pink blogs (you know the screaming adolescent/shopping-centric diaries) can do it, so can you!
My girlfriend’s blog which was launched last month is now showing flashes of PR5 for the homepage.
This is why I love the SEO field so much: first you think you have an idea of how things are the way they are, then something like this comes along and completely obliterates your previous assumptions, forcing you back to the drawing board.
Site Statistics for Sharmskee.com
- Domain Name: www.sharmskee.com
- Domain creation date: January 18, 2006
- 407 backlinks via Yahoo! linkdomain, 99% of which are from my blog’s sidebar.
- 11 blog entries since 01/18/2006
- Aside from permalinks, no deliberate SEO work done.
I know we’ve been taught to ignore that green pixie dust but how is it that her very young, less linked site can get a PR5 and my blog’s still stuck at PR4. Chalk one up for the SEO X-Files.
Yes I’m sourgraping ;)
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:45 PM
Acxcording to this job ad from the future, your girlfriend would qualify as a Silicon Valley corpcomm SVP.
February 23rd, 2006 at 1:51 PM
Mike, damn what then is PR-poor me qualifed for hehe
February 23rd, 2006 at 7:29 PM
something with the recent update
maybe theyre giving new sites a PR 5 to start with?
February 24th, 2006 at 1:53 AM
Maybe a sites ability to give PR is different from its own. For instance, my page about Pinoy Search is the top result for [google philippines] besides google.com pages. The only reason I see is Marc’s link on his sidebar.
February 24th, 2006 at 11:13 AM
Thanks again, Marc, for passing it on. :) More power to you!
February 24th, 2006 at 12:55 PM
Done it again! Mark, thank you for the awesome tips.
February 25th, 2006 at 7:17 PM
hahha.
wow. now that’s amazing. interesting how it things like this turn out. i’m glad, then, that I signed up for your yahoogroup. =)
February 26th, 2006 at 8:11 AM
Interesting post…but is there a way to increase your page rank?
February 26th, 2006 at 8:00 PM
Hahaha.
And you call yourself MR. SEO. Your GF should be the one doing SEO. You’re right Marc, never believe everything you read about SEO.
But SEO is not all PageRank, right? You’re still the best dude. Good luck in China.
February 26th, 2006 at 9:00 PM
Kzap, no I don’t think they’re that generous. That would tip the link popularity balance of power :)
Migs, I think this shows how important link profiles are. If you have a link profile diluted with links from less trusted sites, then you get a lower TBPR. Your next question would probably be “so do you consider Macalua.com a trusted site”. My answer would be a definite “I hope so” :)
Lepto, passing what on?
Citeblogger, you’re welcome!
Jozzua, if you want to contribute on the SEOPhilippines.org blog, I’m sure we can start a broader Internet marketing channel on the blog.
Anne, getting linked to many times (quantity) by authority sites (quality) is the generally accepted formula for increasing TBPR (toolbar PR).
Kates, of course it’s not all about PR :) the good thing about this is, I just realized the linking mojo of this site…
March 1st, 2006 at 4:52 PM
PR 5 just for 2 month ! wow !!!
March 1st, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Bunyamin, hope it’s not a bug :)
March 1st, 2006 at 11:09 PM
不错。
March 4th, 2006 at 7:12 AM
wtg Marc! wala pang SEO yan ha ;-)
baka yan narin ang magiging sagot sa PR8 and PR9 mo na tanong ;-)
June 8th, 2007 at 2:50 AM
http://pinkmusic.blogol.hu p!nk 4ever!!!!!!!!