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New page rank increase

Those of you who follow my SEO and link popularity quests on this blog may have noticed that SEO-search-engine-ranking.com recently went up to page rank 6 from page rank 5. So did www.esl-blog.com, www.travel-plan-idea.com, and www.stock-market-idea.com.

I'm not quite sure how these sites earned the increased page rank. Stock-market-idea.com picked up two external links from page rank 4 sites, one of them a blog entry. ESL-blog picked up a blog entry from a PR 5 site and another entry from a PR 4 site. Possibly these counted for quite a bit because they were one way links and blog entries. Considering the time and effort involved getting my first site, eslgo.com to PR 6, I was surprised to see it happen for these sites so quickly and with so (compared to the effort I put in to eslgo.com) little effort.

www.nfl-giants.com debuted at page rank 5. www.jtrotta.com debuted at page rank 4. ESL go.com remained page rank 6 and ESL go.net remained page rank 5. A Google search for links to these sites turns up no matches, although each site does have some links. Without knowing which links Google likes I can't tell how the page rank for each was derived.