I bought a domain http://www.my2008choice.com

I loaded a simple rating system on the site a few days after I purchased the domain. I have not had a chance to do anything with the site.

My question is how can a site that has nothing really for content and no linking attempts made to get the site any back links.

The site has a PageRank of 2 with no effort.

Any thoughts on why this has happened?

PR 2 is nothing and it could be because of the links that you had before you purchased the domain or it could be a toolbar guess as well. I would not have got exited with PR 2.

I can't say that I am excited about a PR2. I have tested this with other PR checkers and they all say 2.

I have a feeling if you took a poll there would be a lot of people that would like a PR2.

My point to this post is that this site achieved a PR2 with nothing done. The domain is something I made up. It didn't exist until I bought it. And this is all that has been done.

http://www.badmoebel-club.de/

Looks like your form...and PageRank.

So this implies that this system gets a PR2 out of the box?

I can't find any links pointing to the site. But there's got to be.
Otherwise it cannot have PR...

Or it implies that something else is going on (possibly a bot-only redirect).

Take the script off and see what happens.

These are the only pieces of the script that appear to be doing any type of redirect.

/************************************************** ***
** Redirect back to referring page (inclusions in
** ssi and php files).
************************************************** ***/
if (!headers_sent() and isset($_POST['vote_redirect']) and !empty($_POST['vote_redirect'])) {
if (isset($display_results) and $display_results == 'true') {
$display_param = '?result=true';
} else {
$display_param = '';
}

header('Location: ' . $_POST['vote_redirect'] . $display_param);
}




/************************************************** ***
** Links always point to the Document URI if exists
************************************************** ***/
if (isset($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_URI']) and !empty($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_URI'])) {
$document_self = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_URI'];
} else {
$document_self = $script_self;
}

Please, check your PR here http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank.html

IT looks like both sites mentioned by Adam are cached by google under the same domain name

badmoebel-club.de

take a look
http://toolbarqueries.google.com/sea...ice.com/&hl=en
http://toolbarqueries.google.com/sea...club.de/&hl=en

Are you shannonlp trying to fake your PR ?

Why didn't you at least fake a higher PR like PR7 for example

They have different IPs, xprmnt. I'm thinking the script does a 301 whenever Googlebot shows up.

Take the script off, Shannon. Let's see what happens to your PageRank then.

I had a domain with a PR4 link and the next update it had a PR2.

How is that relevant ?
Asiadeep ?

many sites have pr2 and pr1 with no effort

how can i change my pagerank? i have 30 links to my page i think and my pagerank is n/a (with not pagerank)

Originally Posted by dfiesta

how can i change my pagerank? i have 30 links to my page i think and my pagerank is n/a (with not pagerank)

Just have your own tool bar instead of the Google one that shows the Green bar when its your domain(s)

What will you say about this. With only 2 posts this blog got pr 4

http://jontu.wordpress.com/

Originally Posted by jontu

What will you say about this. With only 2 posts this blog got pr 4

http://jontu.wordpress.com/

Wordpress sites rank high for some reason with little to no effort.

Originally Posted by peanutpad

Wordpress sites rank high for some reason with little to no effort.

If that is so what is your idea about this

http://amitava.blogspot.pk/

it's because newly created blogs get an automatic link from the parent site which will get picked up by scrapers and feed bots and end up being linked from lots of sites.

Simply serves to demonstrate that toolbar PR is of no use and of no value