How much time did it take for your site to get PR?

As Google is always up and down there is no real set time frame.
Going solo (without being linked from higher PR sites) can take 6 plus months to get PR2 or 3, being linked from a higher PR site can almost get you ranked over night.
After this last shake up one of my sites went from 5 down to 3 but am not worried as it's done this before and should be back at 4 or 5 next time round.

PR rank means nothing to a lot of people, Alexa is another ranking which has even less meaning.
Google in some ways is similar to Alexa, it uses the search results and peoples viewing habits (via the google toolbar), where as Alexa just uses the tool bar method. Google uses the link to/from method too but don't think it's important as it once was. Once an idea is spammed to death - like meta tags, they are moved over for something else.

You can get a PR of up to 4 without having a link farm (linking to and from every Tom, Donald and Harry), 5 and above requires a bit more work but at the end of the day it's your content that will rank you. If you have content that people want to see, you will be ranked well, if you have common content (same as everyother Tim, Damian and Henry) you wont be ranked highly no matter what you throw at it.

Content is King, and always will be.

PR updates are usually every 3 months.

Exchange links
buy links
write articles
submit to directories and search engines

and you could easy get a PR4.

I agree with netmaster123 for PR4. But for PR6+, what do the experts here suggesT?

I'm no expert but I can tell you if you create some awesome content, webmasters will link to it. The more quality links you have the more pagerank you get. You need to spend less time exchanging links and submitting to directories, and more time developing quality articles, reviews, tools, or other content that webmasters will link to.

StanlyMarsh wrote: How much time did it take for your site to become:
1. PR2?
2. PR3?
3. PR4?
4. PR5?
5. PR6?
6. PR7?

i managed to get my web hosting site from PR0 to PR5 within 3 months

For my site SearchBliss:
3 months, PR4
1 year, PR5
4 years, PR6
and the site is 6 years old now.

Is thiis what you were asking? Time has very little to do with PR. Good Content, quality relevant backlinks, design structure (good navigation, good use of keywords, outbound links, etc.) and the list goes on...has everything to do with it.

Usually within 3 months I can get to a PR4 or PR5 without much trouble but from there it seems to get more difficult to go up the scale.

To get my PR 4 it took me 3 months. But that 3 months were very long. Considering the link building campaigns I did for it.

agree with all of you... currently doing seo for my company which predicted to have PR4.... and it get pretty hard to go higher as the backlink started to decrease if you didnt continue do seo activities....

Any good suggestion for me?

Time has very little to do with PR. It depends on quality content, quality BLs, and submission to quality directories.

well, for 1 of my sites - i did a lot of link exchanges but only managed to get a pr3 on the first update. on the next update, it went to a pr 4. those days, the updates happened once a month (around there).

for another site, it was a script related site and people who used the script linked to it - i got a pr 4 in the first update and a pr 5 in the subsequent update. for this site, which is relatively new, updates were happening once every 3 months.

Try to buy links for higher PR sites. The higher PR site you have your link on, the higher it will weight in for Google.

It all things about CONTENTS....

Becoz Content is Badshah in all things for increasing your PR. so, be in touch with updated contents.

Even Yahoo, MSN crawlers crawl your site every week after increased your PR. so, walk with the world and be optimistic in every field for SEO.

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