PR4 in just a week! at WebGrrrl.net, Home of Lorna Timbah On-line

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.

ben says:

24 August, 2008 at 9:44 am

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

Lorna says:

25 August, 2008 at 12:46 am

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.

Phyllis V says:

27 August, 2008 at 5:46 am

Yeah, why are page ranks usually false?

BlogSavvy says:

27 August, 2008 at 1:04 pm

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

papajoneh says:

27 August, 2008 at 4:16 pm

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

Permana Jayanta says:

31 August, 2008 at 11:49 am

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 ..

gossip says:

1 September, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Congratulations anyway!

Michael says:

2 September, 2008 at 6:18 am

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.