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    • What Does It Take To Achieve PageRank 7?


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    Google Page Rank, in case you did not know, is not calculated site wide. It is calculated for each individual page. As a blogger, this can be a fit frustrating, as many backlinks point to specific articles rather than the front page. If all backlinks to my site were combined and pointed to richgilchrest.com, my site would be at least a Page Rank 7 right now.

    I know this because one of my articles has a Page Rank 7. Other articles of mine have page ranks of 4 and 5, while most are 0. For all I know the one PR 7 article could be propping up the rank of the entire site. That’s how it works, or so I hear.

    So what does it take to achieve a page rank of 7 for one article? Fortunately, the article in question was about blogging technology, and was only linked to by bloggers on their blogs, so as far as I am aware. I believe that every single backlink to this article shows up as a trackback on the article itself. I’ve tallied the incoming trackbacks, and here are the backlinks that one article received:

    PR 6 - 1
    PR 5 - 8
    PR 4 - 19
    PR 3 - 37
    PR 2- 33
    PR 1 - 12
    PR 0 - 105

    Additionally, 11 trackbacks led to either 404 errors or pages that weren’t loading so I couldn’t check their page ranks. These are the page ranks of the articles that are linking back to my article. Several of these, such as PhotoMatt, Lorelle on Wordpress, and BloggingPro, have much higher page ranks on their main page than the article that linked to mine. I think (And please correct me if I’m wrong) that it’s the linking article that is of interest here, tho.

    So there you have it. 215 backlinks between PR0 and PR6 can add up to a page rank of 7. That really doesn’t seem like it would be hard to achieve. I would guess the blogosphere is probably shooting itself in the foot by linking to specific articles, rather than linking to each others’ front pages.

    14 Responses

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      nishu

      October 29th, 2007 at 9:43 am

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      Hey rich .. you got a really nice looking blog .. But I would like to ask why there are no Dates in your blog like any other blog.

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      Rich

      October 29th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

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      Nishu,

      Thanks :) When I was modifying my last theme, the dark three-column theme, I thought the dates looked goofy, so I removed them. Since then, I’ve decided I like the lost-in-time feel of having no dates on my articles. They’re still dated, and be reviewed chronologically in the archives, but I prefer the aesthetics of being date-free.

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      PageRank, PageRank, and…. PageRank — Keiron’s Window to Madness

      October 29th, 2007 at 3:05 pm

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      [...] @ Aiming for Independence provides some thoughts on what it might take to get a PR7 , which quite interested me - he makes a very valid point that the blogging community is probably [...]

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      Make Money Online

      October 29th, 2007 at 3:26 pm

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      I fully agree backlinks do give page rank at least for the moment. Will Google change that in the future? Hmm who knows. But trackbacks and backlinks will surely give you traffic which in my opinion is more important. A blog/site with no traffic does not exist.

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      Utah Search Engine Optimization

      October 29th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

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      Hell, We’re having a hard enough time just reaching a damn PR6 let alone a PR7.

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      Blondie Writes

      October 30th, 2007 at 2:23 am

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      I found your article fascinating since, I have always had backlinks to my front page, I never thought about linking to individual pages. I guess I did something right by accident.

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      Gefen Australia

      November 2nd, 2007 at 1:58 am

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      Seems easy enough, thought it was a lot harder to get PR7 than that (thought you’d at LEAST have to have some PR7+ pages linking to you). Perhaps your homepage influences the ranking more than you know, whats its PR and what links to it?

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      Jack Payne

      November 6th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

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      Backlinks reporting leaves me totally in the dark. In checking several of these backlinks reporting services I find that my blog ranges all over the map–anywhere from 0 backlinks reported by one service to one of 81,000, by another. The “in-between” runs from 2,000-7,000. I’ve never been able to begin to figure this total lack of consistency out.

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      Aiming for Independence » Warning: Make Sure Your Best Content Is Not Ignored By Blogrush

      November 7th, 2007 at 2:34 pm

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      [...] some reason, my article What Does It Take To Achieve PageRank 7? has been given only a tiny number of impressions compared to the rest of my recent articles.  [...]

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      Mo Raja

      November 29th, 2007 at 1:43 am

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      Very useful information on your blog. I have a very new site
      football credit card       with a PageRank 0. I wasn’t too how to work on increasing the PR of that site. Thanks to your blog, I am much clearer now and hopefully my PR would start going up. I have noticed that only the BIG GUNS have PageRank 6, 7, 8… so I’m going to start with basics and target at least a PR4 first. I’ve bookmarked this blog and would be checking regularly.

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      friendsandmoney

      December 31st, 2007 at 10:36 am

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      Hi Rich,

      Loved your post on achieving a page rank 7, I have never seen it presented in this way before and it’s got me thinking again about my site. There is also a great free technical forum that is an invaluable resource for bloggers and website owners called http://forums.digitalpoint.com

      Whether you are a beginner or experienced technie this provides invaluable advice for getting better page rank and SERPS listing for free. My advice is never pay an SEO company as this forum provides everything you need for free.

      Keep up the good work on your blog, look forward to reading your next post

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      JTPRATT's Blogging Mistakes

      January 29th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

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      Looks like your formula might not work anymore since your PR7 page is now PR4 and your homepage is now PR0. That page and your home page are the only ones to come up in google now searching for http://richgilchrest.com - the rest have been sent to supplemental index hell.

      What happenned?

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      Ernesto

      February 2nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm

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      Oh how I wish I can also have pages with PR5 and PR6. Great blog post by the way!

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      Hawk Enterprises

      March 1st, 2008 at 1:29 am

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      PR Level does not equal incoming links. Just read what matt cutts talks about and a few of the other google developers. PR, and more importantly the newer algo has way more involved. Authority, Trust, Depth and Density are all parts of this multi-variable beast. Regardless,

      Make websites for users, and users will come. Make websites for search engines and your site will fail.


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