How Da Heck Did I Get a PR 4 Pagerank ???
No man, I’m not complaining at all. It’s way cool and yet just so weird. Is Google doing the dance at the moment? or did the Google Gods loved my Google Prayer article so much that they rewarded me with this page rank. 
Heck, you never know. Somebody there might have a good sense of humor. In the end, I really want to know how this happened so I can replicate it on my other sites.
Anyhow, it made me smile as this is my first PR 4 site and kicked my butt to start writing again on this blog. I don’t want it to go down. The only way is up and UP!
Screenshot above taken from BlogFlux.com PR Check
STATS:
Date Domain was purchased: Jan. 22, 2008
Date of First Article (Set Up): March 2, 2008
Current No. of Backlinks (as of 5/22/2008) from Yahoo: 50
No. of Posts: 6
Date of Last Post: April 10, 2008
Ads (Affiliate Links, Adsense): None
The Story
What made it all strange to me is the fact that I wasn’t actively doing anything on this blog. My last post was on April 10. I also didn’t actively seek out any backlinks during the period. In addition, according to my analytics software, I also have very few visitors. A total of about 50+ visitors since the blog started and most of the visits are mine.
When I first started, the first thing I did was to go to Court’s site (CourtneyTuttle.com) and commented just to become one of his top commentators (He doesn’t have this now). I did this just so I can get my site quickly indexed. That’s all I did to get a do-follow link to my site. I also commented on MMO bloggers like Griz (makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com) and Vic (bloggerunleashed.com) but those links are no-follow. After the first two weeks, I got stuck with other stuff and sort of neglected this blog. I was never really able to go out and give this site other backlinks. No social bookmarking, no article marketing, link exchange etc. If you check my backlinks at Yahoo, you will only see links from the sites I mentioned (and some others (technorati, few scrapers etc).
It is just now really that I’m starting again on blogging when I checked this site and lo and behold I see a PR4 on the toolbar.
What do I think happened?
I think it’s the strong authority of Court’s blog on MMO that gave me this pagerank. Wow, if it is the only reason why I got a PR4, then getting a PR 4 site is pretty easy then. I just need to find a good authority site that has a high PR and the top commentator plugin and comment away there. Wait for 2-3 months and voila! You now have a PR4 site!
Did the no-follow comment links on Vic’s and Griz’s site helped? Probably, probably not since they are no follow. If you look at the backlinks from yahoo now, you would only see no-follow links too from Court’s site and those audioselect ( Ex. courtneytuttle.com/?audioselect=89010) links. I remember to have more links before, by becoming a Top Commentator.
What’s Next Then?
Of course, more articles on this site so I maintain the PR. Also, the only keyword authority I have, for sure, is on my name. I got to leverage the PR4 and through more articles expand my authority on other keywords. I would also love to replicate it again on another site.
Get the horses ready, I’m off to EXPERIMENTATION!!!
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