My Journey to PR 5

I managed to get up to PR5 on the last update, I can only say that following the same methods to improve SERP`s such as link building and adding fresh unique content got it there, all the industry standards really. However, I`d swap it for PR0 to rank number 1 for my keywords anytime. Good luck Lou.

According to some of the stuff I read, page rank is having less and less to do with postion for keywords.  In some cases, a drop in PR showed no dip in traffic.  At the very least, maybe we will find out more about why google even uses PR. Thanks for the comment.

Hi Lou, I have an interesting story about PR: because I was working on another project, my local blog was dormant for about a month and a half. Prior to that time it was a PR1, yet after a month or two it shot all the way up to PR4, without any work being put into it at all. So I think there is something to be said for letting it simmer (our blog has been up since October 2007), although I wouldn't recommend letting it sit for months at a time. Christopher, Zolve.com

Thanks for the contribution and I agree that age of the domain is definitely a factor but I am looking to demonstrate and active approach to gaining a better page rank. Thanks for the comment

Apologies, Lou, I misunderstood what you were looking for. Have you thought about building backlinks? We've done a bit of that and it seems to have helped our PR to some degree. (Indeed, I began building backlinks several weeks before I stopped working on the blog, so maybe that also had something to do with the PR increase.)

People will pay more to be on a site with very good or increasing traffic than a PR5 site with little traffic....   --- the prosecution rests its case your honor

Its all about links.

Good luck, Lou!  Just be prepared for a long rest stop at PR4.  Pagerank is exponential, so getting to a 4 will be harder than getting to a 3, and getting to a 5 will be much harder than getting to a 4.  I just hit 5 after 1.5 years of work, and I'm looking at probably another year to get to a 6. Not trying to discourage you, just want you not to get discouraged!

With regards to age of domain, it doesn't play any factor whatsoever in PageRank (and obviously PR isn't the end all of serp positioning.)  We recently took a brand new page, on a 6 month old domain, and hit a PR6 in under 60 days.  It was a piece of diggbait, and it went ridiculously viral (actually is still going ridiculously viral.)

Thanks for the words of wisdom Eric.  I will keep plugging away and we will see what happens