I have a website that is basically a domain only pulling videos from youtube. Google ranked it at PR3 a few months after I set it up and I’ve never built a single link to it.

On top of that, it is a .info domain!

The only thing I’ve done is to pay for the domain for 5 years in advance  – if that’s enough to give it a PR3 then I will do it more often. Stupid ranking system.

On the other hand I buy expired domains with high PR and Google always swamps it no matter what I do. Try to figure out a machine….! useless…

Alexa is even more stupid, their ranks depend on people using Alexa toolbar, this way only young demographics affect ranking and I can see this clearly on my sites.

Sites with high traffic but related to old people’s topics have poor alexa rank regardless of traffic. On the other hand, stuff like games have a nice rank even with poor traffic. Freakin’ nonsense.

There are sites on top of Alexa’s ranks only because they’re used by internet marketers, nobody else, and all marketers have one or the other way of checking alexa ranking in their browser.

I also have websites with no traffic whatsoever with nice rank based only on my daily check on those sites. Useless!!!

… Just thought you might like to know …

http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
http://www.alexa.com/