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How Often are G's Page Ranks updated?

by OKFarmgirl
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My site is relatively new (the domain is about a year or so old) and I've been doing fairly well in getting my articles indexed and ranked. I'm at PR 0, which makes sense, but I'm wondering when G updates PRs? I'm sure it's one of G's grand mysteries, but I'm wondering what your experience has been as far as how often your PR has changed? Is it common for a PR to go down after it's gone up?
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    PageRank is actually calculated on an ongoing basis. Global PR update
    is done every few months.

    PR0 is actually an increase from PR n/a. You may actually be
    very close to PR1, or higher.

    Your PR is calculated from the number of backlinks and their quality.

    If you find that you do have some decent high PR backlinks, that
    are found, your PR will increase.

    If you have a site that has good backlinks, you continue to build,
    or people are linking to you, it is easy to go up to PR4. IMHO, after
    that, it is a little more dicey. Now you really need to be getting
    links in droves, or least more higher PR links. That's why PR0-4 is
    common, PR5 -PR6 takes very hard work--a lot of link bait, PR7-PR8
    is darn near impossible for the average Joe. All of my sites are
    PR4-PR5. Looking for the elusive PR6 eventually.

    Since PR is calculated using the number of backlinks, there are many
    PR estimators on the web, but most are for entertainment purposes only.

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    • Profile picture of the author faysal969
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      PageRank is actually calculated on an ongoing basis. Global PR update
      is done every few months.

      PR0 is actually an increase from PR n/a. You may actually be
      very close to PR1, or higher.

      Your PR is calculated from the number of backlinks and their quality.

      If you find that you do have some decent high PR backlinks, that
      are found, your PR will increase.

      If you have a site that has good backlinks, you continue to build,
      or people are linking to you, it is easy to go up to PR4. IMHO, after
      that, it is a little more dicey. Now you really need to be getting
      links in droves, or least more higher PR links. That's why PR0-4 is
      common, PR5 -PR6 takes very hard work--a lot of link bait, PR7-PR8
      is darn near impossible for the average Joe. All of my sites are
      PR4-PR5. Looking for the elusive PR6 eventually.

      Since PR is calculated using the number of backlinks, there are many
      PR estimators on the web, but most are for entertainment purposes only.

      Paul
      Very nice reply. It has changed my some wrong idea. Thanks for your great work.
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  • Profile picture of the author OKFarmgirl
    Okay, that's good - movin' on up, so to speak. I think my backlinks are my number one problem - I just suck at finding dofollow links in my genre. Plus, I tend to spend my time writing rather than working backlinks - that's how I roll! I guess that's useless though if my articles aren't all hitting page 1 for my keywords (a few are). Okay - I'll work on backlinks - let you know how it goes. Suggestions on how to find them specific to gardening/farming would be great - right now it seems hit and miss. I do have a program that tells me if links are nofollow, but I can also check the code if I need to.
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  • Profile picture of the author biznics
    Originally Posted by OKFarmgirl View Post

    My site is relatively new (the domain is about a year or so old) and I've been doing fairly well in getting my articles indexed and ranked. I'm at PR 0, which makes sense, but I'm wondering when G updates PRs? I'm sure it's one of G's grand mysteries, but I'm wondering what your experience has been as far as how often your PR has changed? Is it common for a PR to go down after it's gone up?

    Google PR is updated after every three months.

    Regarding your domain PR, I had the same issue with my site but then I realized that I wasn't doing enough link building (quality link building ofcourse). And once I started it, I got directly PR 2 within the first year of my domain registration.

    So the base of getting increased PR is to get links from:

    - Authority sites
    - Relevant sites (relevant to your main category or niche)
    - And obviously linking to high PR sites

    Good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      PR is not updated every 3 months. It's updated whenever google
      feels necessary to do it.

      You need to start your own empire of sites. Free sites, that is.
      Squidoo is a wonderful resource. Make a squidoo page on your
      topic, and every sub topic you can think of. Link to your main
      page. Start a blogspot blog. Easy to integrate adsense and the
      power of google is behind you.

      Find forums that are for farming, gardening, and think outside the box.
      Like sub-genres: organic food, cooking, etc. anything that would appeal
      to your niche. Find blogs in your niche.

      Pretty soon, you have people linking to you.

      But the best place to start getting links is on your own sites. One of
      the best kept secrets.

      If you have some cash, there are backlinking services here that are
      offered.

      If you don't have a twitter account attached to each domain, get one.
      Start following all who follow back, and then people who are like you.
      Twitter for me rocks as far as link bait.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author OKFarmgirl
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        PR is not updated every 3 months. It's updated whenever google
        feels necessary to do it.

        You need to start your own empire of sites. Free sites, that is.
        Squidoo is a wonderful resource. Make a squidoo page on your
        topic, and every sub topic you can think of. Link to your main
        page. Start a blogspot blog. Easy to integrate adsense and the
        power of google is behind you.

        Find forums that are for farming, gardening, and think outside the box.
        Like sub-genres: organic food, cooking, etc. anything that would appeal
        to your niche. Find blogs in your niche.

        Pretty soon, you have people linking to you.

        But the best place to start getting links is on your own sites. One of
        the best kept secrets.

        If you have some cash, there are backlinking services here that are
        offered.

        If you don't have a twitter account attached to each domain, get one.
        Start following all who follow back, and then people who are like you.
        Twitter for me rocks as far as link bait.

        Paul
        Okay, I have an Organic Farm and Garden Squidoo Lens. In my articles there, I've been linking specific articles on my site. Should I just be linking the main page using targeted anchor text? I do have a Twitter account (~68 followers so far) and a FB Fan Page that only has like 27 fans. I'll open a blogspot blog for sure - what about WP.com? No cash at the moment, but I'm willing to do the leg-work - just need to find good backlink spots. Are blogs the best place to start?
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