WRevenue reader Jack wrote today to let me know that wrevenue.com had achieved a page rank of 6! From its launch in September 2007 until now, W Revenue’s page rank had been 0, according to the toolbar. Conventional SEO wisdom says that the toolbar rank is meaningless, and that Google assigns its own internal rank to pages. I’m not so sure about that. For months, searching Google for my name would never find a wrevenue.com result until today. Now, wrevenue.com is found in the 4th and 5th positions on the first page in Google when searching for my name.
I was surprised that it took so long to get a page rank >0 but I’m ecstatic that it’s a PR6 
. When I launched Dealighted in late 2006, it had a Page Rank of 6 in under 30 days. Matt Cutts thought that was just a timing issue, saying that I probably launched Dealighted right before a PR update.
In any case, I’m ecstatic about the PR6 and based upon my own test search above, it does appear that a toolbar PR update affects rankings. Checking my other sites, ResellerRatings remained a PR6, TechIMO went up from a PR5 to a PR6, Dealighted remained a PR6, and PhotoPost dropped from the PR7 that it had maintained for years to a PR6. Whether any of that translates into changes in traffic remains to be seen.
great job, not surprising from a pro but a definite delight.
who owns ScottWainner.com? You’d have a much easier time ranking for your name if you had that domain
… although don’t tell john chow that
Yea I think that it was a matter of time. You just started this blog 5 months before the PR update. If it was started a week before the PR update I think it would have done just as well.
Congrats Scott
Have you done much link building or is it natural? I assume you have linked from your other high PR sites to this blog which must have a significant affect.
I must go and see if my sites have changed at all.
Keep up the good work.
James
No link building, just organic links, though I do link to wrevenue from most of my other sites. Thanks for the well wishes.
Congrats Scott
Have you done much link building or has it been natural? I assume you link from the other high PR sites you mention which must have a significant affect.
I must go and check my sites now.
Keep up the good work, very inspiring.
James
Congrats. That is a nice thing to see I am sure. odd that it took so long for your name, but that probably speaks to the name more than against it.
“and based upon my own test search above, it does appear that a toolbar PR update affects rankings”
What you experienced was the SANDBOX. PageRank IS worthless.
I went and checked out my sites and bingo!
Gone from PR0 to PR4 on a new site and other older ones seem to be steady.
I am a happier bunny, lets hope I get a flood of natural traffic now!
job well done .. i had the same issue with my site for the beginning two weeks … but i think it was sandboxed as it was indexed i just wouldn’t rank for the term but now it is back.
Your posts are worth that PR.
Congratulations!
-SpyBuster
From 0 to 6?? Now THAT motivates me!!
It happened to me as well, it is nice to see it. Congrats
Well done..what can I say
Were you buying any of links or you did everything just blogging???
Congrats on the PR 6. Quick question, did you use any of your other high PR sites to throw some juice this way.
Congrats! You’re amazing that it took only 5 months to reach PR6. Keep up the work!
Congratulations!!! My site went from PR0 > PR4 as well. The new site has only been up since January. The site that I moved from also got a bump to PR3 (l-o-n-g-e-r version of the short name online-internet-business-opportunity.com). Even my own site mohamedbhimji.com got a bump, though much more modest to 2.
Hoping the trend continues!!
Regards,
Mo
… just popped over at your PhotoPost site, and it appears to be back to 7.
Mo
Wow Scott, that type of growth in such a short period motivates us all. I just subscribed to your feed so as to hopefully pick up on some tips on how to better our own website. I have had a website for 10 years and I have a PR5. Thanks Goran
Is there anybody can help, my site has been on the net for a long time but still got PR0, I don’t know how to improve it’s pagerank?
Your site contain a many useful information. I look for a lot of this experience. Thanks!
Page Rank definitely affects my traffic.
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[...] much higher. A new site always has PR 0. New blogger always have no idea how to increase their PR. Here is a blog which is written by Scott Wainner, whose blog grew from 0 to 6 in five months. It depends [...]