White Hat SEO - Sooo... Black

Hi to all,

just want to let you know a bit about some of my experiences, gathered over the years.

The situation:
Domain - top 500 company PR 8 more than 15 years old

My site: a "private" directory on that domain, 10 years old, main page 0/white, all the directory PR grey

A few links placed there ALWAYS show great effects.

As PR is not existent, must have to do something with age and trust.

Need to say, before G froned up on directories it had PR 2-3 on all pages.
To me it looks like the famous .gov or .edu value has more to do with domain age, than the TLD.

For one of my new domains (18 month - without use), 35 links there made it ranking great after
finally uploading some content 2 weeks ago.

That's great share!

Yep it does have alot to do with their age but remember PR is not everything and seeing as they are only updated every so often during the year the site could have the power of a PR 7 but yet not show it in the PR Bar or show a much lower PR until the next update.

What im trying to say is the link juice and link power can still be there regardless of what the PR bar say's.

Mark Blaze

Mark Blaze said:

Yep it does have alot to do with their age but remember PR is not everything and seeing as they are only updated every so often during the year the site could have the power of a PR 7 but yet not show it in the PR Bar or show a much lower PR until the next update.

What im trying to say is the link juice and link power can still be there regardless of what the PR bar say's.

Mark Blaze

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That's exactly what I am observing since about two years.

PR is based on the number of backlinks, I had read somewhere that each PR rank has 5 times more links than previous PR rank.

for example - if PR 2 requires 120 backlinks, PR 3 will need 120 * 5 = 600 backlinks

I believe if your site is old, it must have gathered a lot of backlinks and so its PR should increase.

If it is zero right now, may be your site might be linking to bad neighbourhood site or to a site that is considered bad according to google (example porn site or gambling site, parked domain, etc )