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Re:NoFollow Links on Hacker News by rms on Friday April 25, 2008 @09:22PM (#174084)
So while there's an SEO thread up here, anyone want to guess when my site thinkgene.com will get some pagerank? It's picked up some huge links and a couple blogrolls but still PR0.

How long does Google take to give a new site Pagerank these days?

Re:NoFollow Links on Hacker News by redorb on Friday April 25, 2008 @11:04PM (#174133)
page rank doesn't matter much (Except to those who don't matter) .. its actually behind by atleast 3-6 months .. so what you see is the pagerank they had for you 3-6 months ago; so when you do get one since your 7th best link is your YC profile and above that are blogspot links; I'm pretty sure it will be a 2-3 ,
Re:NoFollow Links on Hacker News by rms on Friday April 25, 2008 @11:35PM (#174155)
We've had some really good links though... At least 10 PR5 or higher and 2 or 3 PR6. And yeah, I know PR doesn't matter, we're already getting about 100 hits a day from deep random searches. I just want the PR# for my personal satisfaction.

The best SEO thing we did was an April Fools Joke. It was surprisingly popular and got some really good links, not to mention an obscene amount of stumble upon traffic. And we're in the Wikipedia article for Manbearpig which is good for 30 hits a day.

Re:NoFollow Links on Hacker News by rockstar9 on Friday April 25, 2008 @11:10PM (#174139)
what resources do you use to find out those links?
Re:NoFollow Links on Hacker News by redorb on Friday April 25, 2008 @11:11PM (#174140)
yahoo site explorer (dont forge the 'http://' in the adress or it won't work, ... yahoo gives the best link data and are openly sharing more (lately) [see search monkey]