Comments on: PageRank Split Experiment

By: dragen_owner

dragen_owner — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:50:00 +0000

I noticed that too, but according to the raw data above, didn’t the dip occur before the link actually took place (by an hour)?

By: Franklyn G.

Franklyn G. — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:44:00 +0000

Very informative post… I’m going to try this on one of my websites and if it works I will be back to tell you about it.
Thanks once again!

By: Bren

Bren — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:29:00 +0000

Hi Dan,

Fantastic experiment. Would you be able to provide us with some basic competition metrics for the keyword phrase you went after here? That would provide some further insight to the experiment. Thanks Dan

By: SEO Cipher

SEO Cipher — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:15:00 +0000

I’m late to the game on this, so I apologize for that. I’ve always felt that a link from a high PR page is worth pursuing regardless of how many links are on the page. It’s good that you have proved that. However, I would have added a wrinkle.

What if you created a site C with the exact same set of factors except the original linking page was a different PR 7 page with only ~2,000 links instead of 4,225? It’s unfortunate that you don’t know if those PR 7 values are actually equal in terms of raw PageRank, but that will be the best you can do. If the number of links on a page is a significant ranking factor (I believe it’s definitely a factor, but it might not be enough to matter), then site C *should* rank better for that keyword. You’d have to do that test a bunch of times to sorta prove it, but I’d be curious to see those results.

By: preeti prakash

preeti prakash — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:56:00 +0000

hey awesome experience.i would love to give it a try.

By: Alex Fusman

Alex Fusman — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:59:00 +0000

Very interesting. This certainly has some important implications. However, I think the question Marta brought up is important. It’s possible that the SERP benefit came from the fact that site B received any link at all, rather than that it got the PR passed through the buffer site. I’m not saying it’s likely, but it’s a potential factor because we don’t have a site C variation that has a link from a site D which has no backlinks of its own.

It would definitely be interesting and useful to extend this experiment with some variations.

By: Miguel Salazar V.

Miguel Salazar V. — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:34:00 +0000

thank you very much for research is always good to have the rspaldo of what is sold in SEO

By: Marta Gryszko

Marta Gryszko — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 10:29:00 +0000

AFAIK, even if a domain is brand-new and has no backlinks, from the moment it’s being indexed in Goole, it gets some minimal PR that it can pass to another website. Thus, even if you didn’t get a link from debian.org to the buffer domain, the link from the buffer domain to the domain B could improve its rankings, especially with the keyword in the anchor text. But I’ll try to test it to be 100% sure. What do you think about it?

By: Alex Dumpfree

Alex Dumpfree — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:03:00 +0000

you amaze me every time, the way you stay on top of so many details.

By: imnotadoctor

imnotadoctor — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:49:00 +0000

Historically I have always seen decent drops before major gains that then lead into stabilized gains. Should do any test just for this ….