Thank you Richard, agreed.
My points haven't gotten through clearly - apologies. I'll just restate them for the record. My comments are to do with PR not Ranking. I just want to state my point clearly, anyone and everyone is free to disagree with it.
My point is this: a domain in a highly competitive segment takes longer to achieve a high PageRank score and requires more backlinks. Similarly, a domain in very low competitive segment requires less backlinks and gets a higher PageRank sooner. Just going on what I've seen time and time again.
A domain in "Property investments" can have 200 backlinks and still only score a PR of 2/10 after 2 years wherease someone with no compeitition in their category (e.g. under a business name where there are no/few search cometitors) - they can have a PR of 4 or 5 out of ten within 12 months with just 1 or 2 backlinks.
If content didn't make a difference then both domains should have an equal PageRank after an equal amount of time with equal backlinks. The backlinks I create, I have a couple of hundred I turn on, so they are almost always the same, almost always from similar PR pages. My observation is that the domain without a highly competitive phrase doesn't need the same backlink count to get a higher PR.
My points haven't gotten through clearly - apologies. I'll just restate them for the record. My comments are to do with PR not Ranking. I just want to state my point clearly, anyone and everyone is free to disagree with it.
My point is this: a domain in a highly competitive segment takes longer to achieve a high PageRank score and requires more backlinks. Similarly, a domain in very low competitive segment requires less backlinks and gets a higher PageRank sooner. Just going on what I've seen time and time again.
A domain in "Property investments" can have 200 backlinks and still only score a PR of 2/10 after 2 years wherease someone with no compeitition in their category (e.g. under a business name where there are no/few search cometitors) - they can have a PR of 4 or 5 out of ten within 12 months with just 1 or 2 backlinks.
If content didn't make a difference then both domains should have an equal PageRank after an equal amount of time with equal backlinks. The backlinks I create, I have a couple of hundred I turn on, so they are almost always the same, almost always from similar PR pages. My observation is that the domain without a highly competitive phrase doesn't need the same backlink count to get a higher PR.