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PR has arrived

PR for my directory categories has arrived and it only took about a month. In my past experience it often takes Google longer to update PR on new internal pages of old sites. Anyway, you're wondering how I did, right?

http://www.jtrotta.com/ is now PR 6. I'm happy to have separated myself from the PR 5 directories (there are just too many of those weaklings out there...) but I am surprised. I've been promoting the top level categories more heavily than the index page, with at least 3 (in most cases more) PR 5 links going to each top level category.

So how about the categories, you ask. Some are PR 5 but most of the top level categories are PR 4. After that it depends on how many subcategories there are. Fore example http://www.jtrotta.com/Art-and-entertainment/Music is PR 3 - so is http://www.jtrotta.com/Art-and-entertainment/Music/American-folk which is one level deeper.

However, we don't see a drop from PR 4 to PR 3 in every category. http://www.jtrotta.com/Communication is PR 4 as is http://www.jtrotta.com/Communication/Writing-and-editing one level down. Go deeper than that and we're at PR 3 - http://www.jtrotta.com/Communication/Writing-and-editing/Business

Which categories are PR 5? Education, Shopping, Sports, Transportation, and Travel.

I have more directory news, but I don't want to tell it all at once. Besides I feel like celebrating!

Posted by James Trotta at April 22, 2005 11:43 PM