PR4 in just a week!

I was staring at LornaTimbah.com a few moments ago thinking about which post I wanted to blog first, when I noticed something quite shocking on my Google toolbar — LornaTimbah.com is already ranked 4!

Thinking that there might be a problem with my toolbar, I double-checked with other PR engines as well as Firefox’s SEO plugin. My eyes did not deceive me.

After a while, I figured I know why it gained PR so fast. I hazard a guess that since I parked the domain to point to WebGrrrl.net for awhile, LornaTimbah.com somehow inherited this blog’s PR.

I know, I know, you’re saying that WebGrrrl.net is only PR2. In fact, WebGrrrl.net should rightfully be, and had been, PR4 at some point, but Google penalized my rank for something that I may or may have not been aware of (I’m still waiting on their answer to my reconsideration).

I may never know the real reason for this spike of PR, maybe some of you SEO experts out there could shed some light on this matter. I suspect that this rank may change back to 0 soon, but that’s OK.

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12 Comments »

Comment by ben Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-24 09:44:11

Yup, checking via digpagerank.com confirms it. I also want to know the reason/trick…

Comment by Lorna
2008-08-25 00:46:04

I’ve just checked using the site you recommend. Alas, it shows a PR4 in red, which means that it’s a fake PR. Someone mentioned to me that this is a fluke, and I believe that’s the case.

Still, I’m curious as to why this sort of thing can happen.

 
 
Comment by Phyllis V
2008-08-27 05:46:30

Yeah, why are page ranks usually false?

 
Comment by BlogSavvy
2008-08-27 13:04:11

Congratulations on the PR, for some of us it takes a little longer to get a PR4. Great Job.

 
Comment by papajoneh
2008-08-27 16:16:56

i still see it as PR4.. i check from the prchecker.info still pr4.. so its pr4 false or not :D

 
Comment by Permana Jayanta
2008-08-31 11:49:15

Wow, really ? well, i’ll park my another domain to permanaj.com .. so if permana.com’s PR raise, the other domain will have same PR .. :)

 
Comment by gossip
2008-09-01 16:03:44

Congratulations anyway!

 
Comment by Michael
2008-09-02 06:18:19

That is pretty weird. One of my sites went from having no PR to a PR 1. It looks like they may have done a intermediate PR update. As long as you are getting more traffic, I wouldn’t worry about it too much.

 
Comment by cebu seo Subscribed to comments via email
2008-09-04 23:26:01

Oww! Really? Wow, that’s good.

 
Comment by Gregf Weight
2008-09-06 14:18:41

Congrats dear lady PR 4 is success

 
Comment by iPod Fan
2008-09-06 17:59:42

Yeah don’t focus too heavily on getting PR. Make sure you get traffic and high in the SERPS.

 
Comment by Cirali
2008-09-23 02:39:28

Wow, I want to do it for my webpages. Google doesnt like me..
Now I am going to read your post 3-4 times :)

 
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