Page Rank

[momofone709]

I got involved in a review group-- and a lot of the reviews say you need a Page rank of 3 or higher...

What is the scale--- mine says n/a for page rank, how can I get this to change?

Alexa Traffic Rank: 4,446,949
Traffic Rank in US: 528,751
Sites Linking In: 3

I currently do not have any reviews, so if you would like to give me a review I would appreciate it :-)

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[Nathan]

It will probably take months of blogging before you get a PageRank. It also helps to get incoming links from other bloggers.

[axiomwolf]

Pagerank is mostly based on incoming and outgoing links. The best way to get your page up is to get your link on a page with a lot of incoming links but not a log of outgoing links. Meaning, you're one of the few people they link to. That boosts your pagerank a lot. But overall the best strategy is to get a lot of outside linkbacks.

[veikoh]

According to Google, PageRank isn't anymore most relevant factor to get your site to Top. That's why it's even removed from Webmasters tools. But if you wan't it, just start to get backlinks to your site.

[InfoHelper]

Yeah it's tough to build up PR. Just put up good content, network with others in your niche and try to get people to link to your site (preferably from well-known sites).

[ChickenFreak]

I assume that you're looking to review things that the vendors send you. I realize that you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on stuff just for the blog, but while you're waiting, you could review stuff that you buy in daily life anyway, and maybe occasionally buy something inexpensive just to review.

For example, you could buy a different shampoo, dish soap, ziptop bag, panty hose, cleaning sponge, paper towel, every time you run out of the last ones. You could maximize the selection of review candidates with your purchasing - for example, when you buy kitchen towels, you could buy one each of six different kinds instead of six of the same kind, to give you six review opportunities.

And if a friend buys a big-ticket item that you'd love to add to the blog, you could interview them about it or ask them to write a guest review.

Maybe you're already doing this, but I thought I'd suggest it in case it was a new thought. It could give you more posts, more practice writing reviews, probably more readers, and therefore could accelerate the blog growth that you want

My own main blog (ChickenFreak's Obsession, linkable from the blog in my sig link) is mostly perfume reviews, and I've never gotten anything to review based on my identity as a blogger. I either review bottles or samples that I buy myself, or occasionally samples that I get free just as a consumer, not a blogger.

If my blog did get big enough to attract free products, that would save me a little money on samples, but I'd still give away any full-size free products once the review was complete. That seems to be the standard in the perfume/beauty blogging world, and I'd want to adhere to it.

[sub001]

While it is true that Google is increasing the role of other factors, PageRank remains to be very important. In fact, it's the main factor for Google to decide whether a page should be included in the top 1,000 results. Once there, other factors become more important.

Google updates PageRank almost in real time (=as fast as they can), but what they show you via their toolbar and other sources is usually outdated by weeks or months. So, you can pretty much ignore that green bar.

The only way to gain PageRank is via incoming links, internal or external. Outgoing links don't decrease your PageRank.

[veikoh]

Originally Posted by sub001

While it is true that Google is increasing the role of other factors, PageRank remains to be very important. In fact, it's the main factor for Google to decide whether a page should be included in the top 1,000 results. Once there, other factors become more important.

Where did you ge such kind of idea? Look, my Undiscovered Internet Websites PR is 0 however, it still appears on top when I seach "undiscovered websites"
My dating site PR was 2 but to get this site up again with desired keywords like tattoo, dating, community I completed a link building campaign with resulted me top on those keywords and my PR was decreased to 1.
Several of my sites didn't not have PR at all however they appear in top.

[sub001]

veikoh, the question is, how do you know it's PR0 (or PR2, or whatever)?

As I said in my post above, Google computes PR of a page as soon (and as often) as they can. But, they will NOT show you the up-to-date information. That's why any data in the green toolbar is extremely misleading and should be disregarded. There is no sure way to know what a PR of a page is.

Btw, PR0 technically doesn't exist, because every page (once discovered by Google) gets assigned a starting PR.

[veikoh]

Because those online PR checker tools are showing me such kind of values. Previousy there where Page Rank as N/A, Low, Medium, High values in Webmaster tools but Google removed those. When you look at Google's Page Rank algorithm then you notice that it does not calculate values from 0-10.