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Now that's when you know you are running a very informative site.

While all the content here isn't "yours" (user posts), I know how hard it can be to make a site like this work...

I guess that's just a little proof you are doing a great job!!!

Keep up the good work cscgal! :mrgreen:

Anyone got PR strategies that they would like to divulge? Come on you know you want to! Tell us your secrets! I will tell you mine!

I wish I did! Boy, oh boy, do I wish I had the secret to Google SEO! Just make sure you have lots of inbound links to your site from high-PR domains. And if you can avoid it, don't use query tags in dynamic URLs.

Acc. to a guy I know (employed in Google ):
Google doesn't mind query tags in URLs.

Also, you can read their original page rank algorithm in the research paper by Sergey Brin and Larry Page.
Note: the since then, a lot has changed in the google search engine we see now.
1 link from slashdot.org is more valuable than 1million links from pages with very low PRs

Wow! That's a really interesting research paper - thanks for the post! The research paper that's behind the thesis that's behind the idea of starting google ... written by its founders before google was, well, google

At the moment My site has been up and running for roughfully 2 - 3 months and still has a PR of 0 very strange - google spiders my site daily and has cached most pages - prob google sandbox effect for new sites?

Thanks, Jack.

Very probable. Personally, I wouldn't pay attention to it. If you're getting traffic from Google, and you're seeing results, don't worry about it.

Yes as long as you get quality traffic that is good enough, i would assume that PR would not really count much on ranking high in search results. it's the way you organized your info and strategy to drive as much quality traffic as possible just my though though.

SEO for page rank and traffic is a very tricky thing and must be monitored on a site for months, with the way Google changes so much you have to be careful to do it right or you may get caught with your pants down.

Pr is only useful for finding your links. It looks good when you have pr 5,6,7. It is not helping you on CEO. I dont think Google has secrets, I am following their suggestions ( except sitemap because it is not the must way to use ) and my site hit to the top instantly.