What a pleasant surprise, I woke up this morning to see that this blog has suddenly attained PR 4! I'm actually really surprised that this happened, since I haven't done any link exchanges in a long time. So, the question is how come?

First of all, PR stands for Page Rank for those of you that don't know, and it is a ranking system used by Google to classify the relevance value of a web page in their search results. So, a higher PR will mean you will generally show up higher up in the rankings than a lower PR site.

So... how did I pretty much instantly get PR 4, instead of climbing the ladder? Well, there's a theory called the "Google sandbox effect" which states that getting PR is dependent on time. This is because with the nature of the web, with hundreds of websites starting and falling everyday, Google wants to make sure your site is here to stay and provides "valuable" information. So, it seems our key time frame was 4 months. In fact, another website which we haven't even touched really, but purchased about a month earlier than this one, also got a surprising PR of 3, even though it's just a raw template.

The methods we've been talking about to get more influence on search engines, such as link exchanges and so forth, do still apply, but there is an inevitable wait time for Google to take your site seriously. So to all you who are making websites of your own, be patient and you will be rewarded. Plant those seeds!

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