A couple months back, I was brining a few new domains online and pulling them out of the official parked domain area. I put the domain up on a server, installed WordPress, set up the DB, gave it a name and went through my setup checklist.
I did about a dozen of these, and two or three of them were a bit neglected after going live. I never wrote any content for them initially.
I was looking for writers, had some people lined up, life happened and they were delayed a couple months. When I went to check the now live blogs with no content except for the default Hello World! post, I was surprised to learn that the domains had gone from PR0 to PR3 through the update a month back.
Now PR3 isn't much to write home about, but I was struck, because some of the other domains, I had been working to plug away at with lots of content, were still languishing at PR0. They had the same template and design and more. One had content and one didn't.
I don't have any more insights into this other than questions, but I'm curious if anyone else has ever had their Hello World! domain go to PR3 like that?
I'm also curious if it makes more sense to send a domain live with a Hello World! blog and let it ferment into PR3 before you start writing on it. . . .
yes
I've had that happen to me in the past, and then when I started adding content, a subsequent PR rollout caused the PR to drop. Go figure. What a bloody mystery. I gave up trying to analyze the conditions, since I try to use the same regimen to build up the PR for each new blog. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't.
But the simplest conclusion, and overstating the obvious, is that you want as many high PR backlinks as possible, both to your homepage and archived posts. If it means guesting on high PR websites without pay, do it.
Yeah, these didn't even have backlinks
that I know of. It was a total mystery. Plus it wasn't even on the root domain. These were directory blogs, 2 on the same domain actually. The root domain had a PR1 and these two hello world blogs on sub directories had PR3.
Don't see the point in it if
Don't see the point in it if it's going to go back down in the next PR update after you put content on it.
I've seen strange PR numbers like that, they are usually fixed in the next PR update.
Any link building included in your setup checklist?
Linkbuild on deck
I didn't do this on purpose. A different area of the project lagged for a few weeks and these two sites were missed as I went through the Google update. This was definitely not intentional originally.
I am definitely going to build up links and content and more on the sites going forward.
I suspect this is a fluke, but also thought that its easier to jump off a blog at PR3 than PR0. If it was possible to recreate this for future new sites, I might stagger the linkbuilding and content building on a new site until an update proceeded to await the PR3 boost (the choice to let it sit through the update, would be an opportunity cost choice, meaning I would dedicate my time to other sites that were ready to do something else).
This kind of feels like creating a starter plant from a seedling before you actually plant the starter plant in the garden.
This is probably all a fluke, but you never know, maybe its some weird Google backdoor or joke or something.
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