Google Page Rank 3 for a Website with no Content: Case Study

Google Page Rank Case Study
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SEO is something which you learn with experience and it’s more of trial and error method. Many things which I have learned with time and one of them is long tail keywords work better and more over backlinks created via commenting helps you a lot.

update: Google page rank is gone. Instead look at another factor call domain authority

Here I have played with some new project and wanted to see if I can create page rank for that blog without working much. As a test project I started with creating backlinks just by commenting and nothing else.

The domain which I’m talking about is WPFreeSetup.com which is going to be my next project for some service.

Domain Details:

  • Domain bought on: 19/02/2010
  • Domain Page rank as of Sep 27th 2010: 3
  • Domain name: WPFreesetup.com
  • Website Platform: WordPress
  • Theme: Genesis WordPress theme
  • No. of Posts- 0

So this domain was bought almost 7 months back and at the time of writing it has a page rank of 3 with total no. of posts= 0. I know it sounds really amazing but this Page rank 3 is a result of this SEO test.

The idea is by blog commenting. Blog commenting is one of the best way to drive traffic and build backlinks for your domain. In this case I commented on many High PR blogs and especially one using top commentator or recent commentator WordPress plugin. This resulted to drive backlinks from some High PR sites and within a month (last PR update), that new domain Page rank increased to 3 from 0.

Page Rank and Traffic:

This is most common myth that page rank helps you to drive traffic and this is not true. Imagine the above-mentioned blog have PR 3 and you must be expecting at least 100-1000 visits a day. But the fact is at this moment this new domain doesn’t have even 50 traffic/month.

Other Steps which I followed:

  • Used SEO optimized WordPress theme
  • Created Sitemap for Blog
  • Submitted Sitemap to Google, Bing, Yahoo
  • Added Meta tags, meta keywords
  • Onsite SEO optimization of WordPress

Conclusion:

Commenting helps you a lot in gaining Page rank and building backlinks. If you build high-quality backlinks, chances are high to get a page rank within next PR update.

I also recommend checking SEO checklist .

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

106 thoughts on “Google Page Rank 3 for a Website with no Content: Case Study”

  1. Aneek

    Thanks Harsh, again indeed.
    I am a beginner to the SEO related stuff. I was googling about SEO/PR and got this case study.
    It is a very good information set to collect upon. Bookmarked it also, I read about the 7 ways to make backlinks.
    So I will start commenting whenever I see it as a relevant post.
    But this one is genuine stuff. Thanks again.

  2. Ankit @ Geek Revealed

    Nice Info Harsh, I consider this topic a bit confusing coz on many forums they tell that commenting is of no use but as per this case study you demonstrated that it works.

    Thumbs up bro 🙂

  3. Caramel Craze

    I have a domain that up until last night just had coming soon on it. it has a pr 3 ranking. It was a straight HTML page. SBmingle.com How did this happen. So last night I put wordpress on it. AM I screwing up? I use that domain name as my reseller domain . Whenever I do a website I use that domain name as designed by SBmingle.com. Do you think thats how i got a pr3 page rank? Check it out

  4. Sherzod

    Hey, Harsh! Your article is really interesting! I have a question, if you stop building backlinks to a specific website, by the time it will start decreasing its pagerank? I mean the search engines.
    Respect! Sher.

  5. Deepak

    Now i will commen t on more and more blog daily i read lot of blog posts but never comment on them your secret has really inspired me and i will comment on other blog as much as possible. Thanks harsh

  6. Saket Jajodia

    Thanks for the info I have never commented for backlinks thats why from last 6+ months have no PR till now…

  7. Jack

    Oh my my!
    Amazing!
    …so, commenting on other blogs really help.
    But i hope it could elaborate also on the “nofollow” aspect.

    Thanks.

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  9. infobd

    This article is so helpful and effective for new blogger who want to get page rank.

  10. Jesse Dictor

    I’m curious about more of the numbers. How many blog comments did it take? I think I am going to run a similar study but offer a bit more data, and do it a handful of times. I’ll let you know how it goes. No matter what this is a great case study.

  11. Mike

    Lol, high PR doesn’t mean you’ll have high traffic. I guess you have traffic from keywords like free wordpress setup, right? It’s because when you comment on KeywordLuv blog, that’s really a huge advantage over building backlinks to rank high on SERP

  12. Cybersplash

    Blog commenting is the best way to obtain back links. But i believe, at least Google (not sure about yahoo & bing) has changed its approach towards such back linking. Heard like Google’s algorithms are revised and hence its no much use. Is it true?

  13. Bimal Roy

    Now i have over 12000 visits per day. But my page rank is 1! But my site grew very fast in a short period of time. So I am waiting for the next update.

  14. vrunda

    hey harsh.. it’s great… this post definitely boost bloggers for making more comments rather then only concentrating on posts… it’s really great…thnax for sharing..
    regards,

  15. Anthony

    Google clearly wants you to use rel=”nofollow” in your comments section, so I would think that if you are not, your rankings may be penalized.

    See page 22:

    http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

    If you are not using rel=”nofollow”, you are saying that you vouch for all of the sites in your comments section.

    I think people need to use more common sense. Google doesn’t want anyone to game the system and blog comments have become an easy way to try and game the system.

  16. Pritam@Part Time Jobs

    Hi harsh,
    You could go one step further in your experiment so that you could come up with more exciting results. Yes, I completely agree that PR does not bring any traffic but it brings the ranking for SERP for the keyword you are optimizing on that page. You won’t get any visitor on this blog because you have not optimized this for a single keyword.
    Most of the time you have commented with the anchor text “Tyron” but you have not written a single word about tyron on your blog or in the keywords list.
    You could really bring the traffic on your blog if you would mention Tyron in your keyword list and 1-2 times in your blog home page (even without any post) because tyron gets lots of monthly searches but competition is very low.
    I just want to say that Google gives Page Rank on the basis that how many high PR or quality backlinks you are getting and Google gives SERP rankings on how many high PR and quality backlinks for a keyword you are getting and its SERP rank not page rank which brings the traffic.
    Pritam Nagrale

  17. Karan Batra

    Hi Harsh
    It is a known fact that PageRank is directly related to the no. of Backlinks…. Would be glad if u cld please also highlight how many backlinks you created to attain this Page Rank…..

  18. Siva

    Hey , there is another proof that many parked domains have PR ..

  19. Designer's Digest

    Really great job and case study. I got Google PR 1 for one of my domain name without doing any link building or commenting 😀

    Strange!

  20. Manoj Wadhwa

    Excellent case study, simple and easy to understand lingo and great informative links shared by you. Thanks a ton.

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