WTF - Was there a google pr update? Im pr3?

[Dresden14]

The story:
I've been doing SEO a little over half a year. I thought I would diagnose some tactics and I bought an EMD For middle 4 figures about a month ago. When I bought the site, it had 0 backlnks, and there was not site up (just the domain). In summation, I've been designing and site and threw it up about 5 days ago (25 pages is up). I checked sescout; and its showing PR3. I checked FF sequake; and confirmed - PR3.

Do you get given a high PR just by having a cool emd? Im confused because the days prior it showed pr na which obviously, was to be expected.

[dburk]

Originally Posted by Dresden14

The story:
I've been doing SEO a little over half a year. I thought I would diagnose some tactics and I bought an EMD For middle 4 figures about a month ago. When I bought the site, it had 0 backlnks, and there was not site up (just the domain). In summation, I've been designing and site and threw it up about 5 days ago (25 pages is up). I checked sescout; and its showing PR3. I checked FF sequake; and confirmed - PR3.

Do you get given a high PR just by having a cool emd? Im confused because the days prior it showed pr na which obviously, was to be expected.

Hi Dresden14,

PR is a value that is passed to your page by the total value of the links that point toward it. The domain name has no direct influence on PR, it all comes from your inbound links. Your true PR score is updated in near real-time, it is only the toolbar data that is updated infrequently.

Indirectly, an EMD may play a role in SERP ranking which could lead to organic backlinks, particularly when it is a EMD that gets a lot of type-in traffic.

[Dresden14]

maybe you skipped the part where i said i uploaded this site a few days ago and have zero backlinks?

[guitarjosh]

Originally Posted by Dresden14

The story:
I've been doing SEO a little over half a year. I thought I would diagnose some tactics and I bought an EMD For middle 4 figures about a month ago. When I bought the site, it had 0 backlnks, and there was not site up (just the domain). In summation, I've been designing and site and threw it up about 5 days ago (25 pages is up). I checked sescout; and its showing PR3. I checked FF sequake; and confirmed - PR3.

Do you get given a high PR just by having a cool emd? Im confused because the days prior it showed pr na which obviously, was to be expected.

lol.. that is crazy! But great fortune for you! I won't pretend that I could explain that one!

[dburk]

Originally Posted by Dresden14

maybe you skipped the part where i said i uploaded this site a few days ago and have zero backlinks?

Hi Dresden14,

Nope, I didn't miss that part.

You could have easily garnered a natural backlink within that time frame that might be responsible for the PR3 score.

[IMKid]

You say you bought it for four figures which means someone has used it before and he/she may have built links to it.
You may have not seen them on YSE/SEOQuake. May be if you use something like SEO spyglass, you'll see a few high PR backlinks.
That is the only explanation I can give I'm afraid
Lets hope the PR lasts

[Groovystar]

The site is new but the domain is old if you bought it expired. The PR is from the site that it used to be. Sometimes these sites retain their PR, sometimes they don't. It's a crap shoot.

[seo-expert]

Lucky you. Maybe because it's an old domain name with existing PR. Google seldom updates PR now.. i will check the PR update with my other sources for this info.