I have 400000 backlinks and PageRank 1?

[linksku]

I have close to 400000 backlinks to my homepage alone. Yet my PageRank is still 1. Why is this? What am my doing wrong?

My website is http://linksku.com/, you can check the backlinks for yourself.

[joe12joe]

The quality of the backlinks may not be very good. Whenever you are developing backlinks of your website, you will have to keep in mind that you will stress more on quality rather than quantity. You will have to understand the purpose of backlinks and that is link popularity but it should not be done unnaturally or i would say unethically.

While developing backlinks, you always have to make sure that you are creating backlinks from high PR and relevant site. Otherwise, Google would not value them as a backlink.

[svidgen]

Server overload

We are trying to get a new dedicated server, please come back in a few days.

Are these 400k backlinks (and server overload) due to verified, legitimate human traffic?

[linksku]

The "server overload" is actually my site getting suspended due to a high CPU usage. "Server overload" sounds cooler than "Website suspended" :)

The backlinks are from a WordPress plugin that I made. It currently has about 30000 users. Almost all the backlinks are from WordPress blogs, the rest are from forum signatures :o

[joe12joe]

And have you been doing the postings on relevant forums? What would be the PR of those forums generally?

[linksku]

I had a signature on this account (Webdeveloper), I removed it because my website is down.

[joe12joe]

Google doesn't consider just the backlinks to rank your pages. It involves other factors too. Just imagine, how much traffic you have been losing as your website is down. It effects your SERP alot. That is why it is recommended to use 404 redirection for your pages instead of removing them.

[dbldee]

As mentioned before Google's algo has over 200 factors to take into consideration .
They even recommend that we forget about PR and have removed it from the webmasters tool kit.
It is not just the number of links that you have , but the quality and how you are linking.
Keyword rich anchor text, relevancy..etc

[joe12joe]

PR is important to show the credibility of a website. Just to prove a point, how good your website is. It can needed if you are selling your website or you are trying to attract customers for link exchange etc.

If you are doing a link exchange, it is considered as black hat technique and it is never recommended.

[vinoth.t]

PR won't traverse by no follow link. Back link count is not a matter. It depends on the parent page's PR. If you are getting single relevant link from PR 3 page it will enough to get PR2 for your page. PR also vary depends on no.of outgoing link from a page.

[joomlaseo]

this is one more proof for quality over quantity, when all comes to an end you have low amount of backlinks

[linksku]

I did some more research and I think it's just because Google takes months to recalculate PR. I have links from PR 4 and 5 sites (all keyword dense "follow" links).

PR affects my ranking on search results, especially for a site like mine, which doesn't have keyword dense pages.

[joe12joe]

I guess, that might be a missing part on your website. Perhaps, your webpages are not optimized. You would need to do the on-page optimization as well. You may create inter links between the pages too.

I need to ask you one more thing about the backlinks you have created, do they offer no follow attribute or do follow attribute because Google will not consider them as a backlink, if it would be a no follow.PR is not about having few back links from high PR. I feel, its overall natural link popularity.

[Daria]

I completely agree that links from "bad" sources will cost you you ranking rather then improving it, and with PR recalculation taking time. Also, you'd be better off with 300 good links from good sources then 30000 links from just one or two. It is considered an artificial inflation and will harm your ranking.

If you haven't already, I would recommend to use the Google Analytics and diagnostics tools within we webmaster tools, - if Google has any issues with your site, it will be evident there. If you have any issues with your sitemap structure, or any other factors it will affect the ranking.

[custom-folders]

I agree, in order to get good pr it is necessary to have quality backlinks though less in quantity.

[ravichayal]

Plz check you bad neighborhood links in you backlinks ? if you have 1-10 bad neighborhood links you can not get good pr,if you want Good PR get Good Quality or Niche backlinks to your website or Remove all bad neighborhood links and you will get with in 3 Month Good Page rank.

Thanks and regards,
Ravi Chayal

[bhatnagarashish]

Yes i am agree with Joe quality of backlinks is more important than quantity of backlinks. If you made 400000 qualityless baclinks of your website then all this backlinks are worthless. Google don't consider these backlinks.

Also do below mentioned things with link building:

1. Social bookmarking
2. Directory Submission
3. Reciprocal Linking
4. Sharing of URL in yahoo answers and Social networking websites.

[linksku]

I appreciate your suggestions, but all of you guys are saying that "bad" backlinks are bad for me. What if I make a few hundred spammy websites and link to my competitor's website?

I have several backlinks from PR6 websites, and many from PR1-3 websites. Even though half of the backlinks or more are from PR0 sites.

[WebsiteDeck]

Well it is possible all your links come from PR0 sites. Or maybe your site hasn't been updated yet. You should probably wait around for the next PR update. Also - it would be good to seek some backlinks from high PR sites. PR3 and above.

[linksku]

I remember saying this before somewhere, but I have several links from PR6 sites, and many from PR1, PR2, and PR3 sites.
I added a line in my plugin that fetches the PR of the homepage of the website that the plugin is loaded in. The plugin will only add a link back to my site if the PR is at least 1. I'll see if this fixes my problem. Thanks everyone.

[linksku]

OH MY GOD Google did a PageRank update last night and now my website's PageRank is 7!!! :)

You can check for yourself: http://linksku.com/

YESS!

[ameerulislam10]

OH MY GOD Google did a PageRank update last night and now my website's PageRank is 7!!! :)

You can check for yourself: http://linksku.com/

YESS!

This is the reason, people were just talking non-sense without knowledge. Google updates it's page rank periodically. So you had to wait for the pr update until you can find out your real pr.

tool bar pr!= real pr by the way.

Congratz with pr 7 I can see you got a link from wikipedia as well :).

[sridhar001]

How did you got that many backlinks, did you use any kind of software? and How long you have been building links for your site?

[itrc]

the main factor could be not relevant links and the second not quality link these are the major factors to get high page rank

[diviny]

Backlink alone cant make your Site high ranking.
u do both onpage and offpage optimization in a valid sites which has high page rank and more cache ratio.

[ramin1360_2]

You seem to have a very unstable page rank. Your current page rank is now 5.

Seems very strange to me. I think something is set up badly wrong with your

site when considering all those number of backlinks. Are you selling backlink

or do you use hidden text or hidden links? This might be the reason of your unstable

page rank, but I'm not sure. With those number of backlinks, you should be fairly pr6 atleast.

[Pakiisp]

The quality of the backlinks may not be very good. Whenever you are developing backlinks of your website, you will have to keep in mind that you will stress more on quality rather than quantity. You will have to understand the purpose of backlinks and that is link popularity but it should not be done unnaturally or i would say unethically.

While developing backlinks, you always have to make sure that you are creating backlinks from high PR and relevant site. Otherwise, Google would not value them as a backlink.

am agree with you, always go for quality and same niche backlinks can improve ranking and Pr.

[cns949]

You can't say quality over quantity is important because you must have some quality amonst the 400000 link. How did you manage to get so many links? If your paying to use link farms your site can actually be penalised. Your PR5 now so it looks like your where you should be.

[Christophe27]

Hi,

Don't go nuts over PR. The PageRank value you see in toolbars or on a „PageRank checker‟ website gives a bad indication and is often not even up to date. Moreover – and I quote a friend Google employee – “a PageRank doesn’t say much about the success of your website. It is just one out of more than 200 factors which determine the ranking of your website in Google“.

I never bother about PR. I never check it, honest!!!

I took a quick look at your website. Your website isn't the kind of website which would gather its success via SEO (on the first sight). Rather focus on a solid marketing strategy using other sources ;-) (like those links from your WP plugin)

Best,
Christophe

[sonyaseo.1987]

Don't take tense. But I want to say that create a related categorized back link for your website. Its a great method.

[linksku]

Today, I noticed something very strange. All of the pages that were linked to directly from the homepage (http://linksku.com/button, http://linksku.com/link/technology, http://linksku.com/about, etc) all have a pagerank of 6 while the homepage has a pagerank of 5. I find this very strange.

Christophe27: You are right, PR isn't of much use to my website. Marketing/promoting is more important.

People say that my website's purpose is very confusing. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Christophe27]

Yes, the purpose of your website is confusing. At this moment, it looks like a paid links library, like the ones you see on parked domains.

I miss a simple slogan and perhaps some step by step feedback users. For example, how does the links get on your website? What is the purpose of your website? Is it fun? Is it to keep updated about the latest news? What is the news about? I know their are some categories at the top, but looking at your design, I would rather guess the main background of all the links are fun stories. Do you for example also provide stories about politics or the economic crisis? Then you have to change your design a bit.

Also I would strongly recommand to append an image on every post, with some small feedback about the post. Perhaps the first few lines of the article, with a 'Read more ...' link. Like an actual blog, you get the picture.

Success!

[john methew]

Site is not live and the main thing is that if your site has not valuable and unique content,then your PR will remain as it is or it will decreased...You have to put some updates on your site like posting blogs at frequent time...
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[selina]

Try to get Quality Backlinks

[JunkMale]

Or more simpler to do is to add an a database that periodically tests a link prior to use and if it gets a green light then you know the link is active, rank your links in order of accessibility Like a trafficlight system where Green == GO, Amber == Possible Network / Server Issues and Red for links to investigate and remove.

[perfectionnk]

Hi, I checked your websites and found that is pr5 and you saying that is pr1, and i checked you websites back-links that is Google counts only 2,640 links and you saying about 40000. So if you want to improve your website PR then i suggest you build only incoming links form Google counted competitor's back-links and try to cover max links with Do-follow tag and High PR pages that's why PR is also depends on incoming link's PR.