An experiment in PageRank

Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 4:25 PM
Website Design by John (Article #257)

I'm tired of the great PageRank mystery. Too much voodoo, not enough what to do.

So, I've spread out several domain name purchases with the intent of figuring out what we actually gain by certain inbound links from clearly ranked, legitimate websites.

The first sample is an expired domain, registered, with inbound links from a single legitimate PageRank 3, providing links on all pages. Based on general knowledge from the internet, I'm anticipating this will result in a PR of 2 for the revived website.

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The second sample is a continuously registered domain with a previous PR of 0. It is being propped up by a ton of links from PR 2 and PR 3 websites. I also anticipate this resulting in a PR 3.

The third sample is purely propped by a single paid link from a legit PR 5 website that pushes out many links. I anticipate a PR 2 or PR 3 for this site.

I wish to keep the URLs anonymous in the hope of preventing any contamination of the experiment through further links. It's a pretty straight-forward idea: plug some stuff in and see what you get. Try to limit what you plug in so you can isolate what caused the uptick in PageRank.

I am hoping to have results around the beginning of March.

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