The nice thing about submitting your site to MyLinkState to sell text links is that all for your posts, pages, categories and tags the Google pagerank is displayed.
I made an interesting observation: My Whisky Rating Blog has just received PR 3. I was astonished to find out that some of my categories were PR 2 and some were PR 0. They all have no external backlinks! But I noticed that the PR 2 categories are more likely to be targets from search engine traffic.
I can draw only one conclusion from this: In their pagerank formula, Google weighs in the the amount of klicks on search pages, regardless of thir SERPs. Perhaps also the bounce rate is another factor. Here is an example for two distillery categories:
- Tobermory (PR 2, 6 clicks in 3 months, bounce rate 50%)
Search for “tobermory whisky rating” shows the link to my category on page 1 position 4 - Brora (PR 0, 3 clicks, bounce rate 100%)
Search for “brora whisky rating” shows the link to my category on page 1 position 1
Just a few clicks made the difference as it seems. Or does anybody have another explanation for this phenomenon?
