Frankly, I don’t know, but it still amazes me that I am able to come up with 2 new domains/blogs getting PR7 in less than 6 months.
First, when I got Smart Wifi Chronicles late April this year, it was to move the discussions about Smart Bro from my blog to that dedicated blog. Now it gets around 600 unique visitors a day with and average 2,500 pageviews. So, you can just imagine how much traffic I lost on my blog when I move a huge chunk of the readers there.
So, ok, back to the PR 7. During the first SEO Philippines contest last June, I created a page on that blog as some sort of non-competing entry. In just 3 months of link-building, that page shot up to PR8 with the main domain on PR5, some categories on PR6 and a PR7. It was exciting to see the results of this little experiment which still boggles me to this day. So, okay, I sold a few links on that blog, some of which amounted to as much as $160 per link. That page is now just PR7 which is still pretty high, IMO.
Another domain which I bought specifically for the SEO contest was seoph.org. I reckon that the domains should be a bit generic so that once the contest is over, I could still use it for some other purpose. Now, I am using the site as an SEO blog which is also at PageRank 7.
Now, the question becomes “how did they end up that high?” There are a few Philippine sites that have PR7 or higher and with this SEO exercise, I think I may have an answer to getting high PRs as exemplified by these two sites/blogs.
- Get links from old and highly trusted domains.
- Get site-wide links from a huge site with 150,000+ pages (a large forum perhaps).
- Get a few deep links from relevant articles or content.
- No massive and low-level directory submissions.
- Avoid link exchanges, esp. from new domains.
The first 3 bullet points is all I can say I did and the last 2 are just mere opinions (something I didn’t do during the exercise). Actually, these are not SEO secrets at all.
Again, I can’t claim that this are the answers but from the SEO exercise that we had, but results far outweighs long-standing theories. Now, all one needs to do is monetize these high PR blogs. 
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replied on Dec 1st, 2006 at 4:03 pm (1)
Question bossing. Isn’t it that: PageRank is purely a function of how many links you have and their PageRank? So, domain age and actual page content don’t matter – they boost up your SERP ranking but not the PR itself… ?
And I thought you just inherit Pagerank from other sites but the blogs I got to PR7 or 8 didn’t receive any PR juice above 6. So I got quite confused how that happened.
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replied on Dec 1st, 2006 at 7:23 pm (3)
There is some summation involved. We’ll never know until we get the secret algorithm…
For http://www.smartwifi.org.ph/isulong-seoph/isulong-seoph/
most links came from grabeh, yuga and itself…. baka lakas tama ng yuga … at grabeh ang hatak ni grabeh…
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replied on Dec 1st, 2006 at 8:40 pm (6)
Plus side of forums… thousands of pages of user-generated content…
i never had a PR7 site. i hope next year… i will have one. i’m building more sites
Wow, PR7!!! Cool.
How this PR thing works? is it when you type in google the words let say “mobile gadget” and im the 2nd result is that considered PR 2 or im totally not getting it. pardon if it’s a dumb question… to busy to google
Its the combined PR juice from all of the pages linking to you. But wait after a couple of weeks for the PR to settle.
As per dgitalpoint, the earliest post about the latest PR update was Nov 27.
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What’s weirder is that the site only had a single page of content before.
Hm, I wonder how niche websites can earn a high PR as well.
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replied on Dec 2nd, 2006 at 10:42 pm (14)
ade, if you get produce some mad linkbait and people link and link to you…
Looks like Abe has some Russian fans!
If you’re reading seo-philippines mailing list, I’ve posted two link offers there. One is a free (no reciprocal required) from my PR6 / page. Another is a sitewide from my PR6 blog but I’m asking for reciprocal.
Abe, maybe you can post something about the relationship of blog commenting (getting raw links) and PageRank.
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replied on Dec 6th, 2006 at 4:14 pm (16)
Comments are typically rel=nofollow links, which don’t affect PageRank… but apparently Yahoo honors them.
@ Miguel: Linkbait? That’s what I’ve been trying to do since time eternal, alas, no luck yet.
ive never gotten a pr 7 website
the highest pr i got was a 1
Wow …
nice article, i’m interesting .
http://pemancar-fm.blogspot.com
I saw that your site http://seoph.org/ has just PR 2 !!
Jocuri, try adding a www. in there. Sometimes, it makes all the difference
interesting points of getting high PR. thanks.
Wow, PR 7 …..
http://mvbroadcast.blogspot.com
Could you give me some example to this “trick” i still confuse with your article.
Thxs
Hi Adam Reimer ,
I’ve tried to put www, in the front of seoph.org/, but give me also the Pr 2, please check by yourself
Hi
As you said, its no secret at all and its logic as well. Get links from high pagerank sites and you will get high pagerank as well.
The question is how to do this without having to pay a huge sum of money
Nice tips for PR7
http://cahyo-yw.blogspot.com
Nice . . .
thats to the point tips for PR7 links.
i hope one day i will have a pr7 website… thx for informations.
PR7 ? As I can see your blog has PR1
Well I am not all that sure how the PR works to be honest, I have had my site running for 5 weeks and the traffic is slow, but I have already made pr1 so stoked on that, I think that sites just take time and effort so if you are passionate about your site then you should just enjoy building it and watching it grow.
My site is all about fitness something that goes hand in hand with my real passion of surfing.
I made a blog about surfing, so between the 2 I just enjoy posting and sharing, also have a online novel I am writing which is another passion.
Time patience and effort my friends.
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i dream my blog PR7 …
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