Question about educational site

I'm a psychology instructor, not a webmaster, so please excuse me if
these questions have already been asked and answered.

My site is just a simple, one-page outline of a psychology course that
I teach. It has no inbound links and a single outbound link. I
submitted the site to Google but they haven't yet got around to
indexing it. I suppose that's why the site now has a PR of 0. (That's a
question.)

Will the PR become 1 after Google's spider crawls it, even though it
has no backlinks?

Also, how much of a PR boost will my site give to the single site it
links to?

Thanks to all who answer.

"whitesmith" <apasserby (AT) hushmail (DOT) com> wrote

I'm a psychology instructor, not a webmaster, so please excuse me if
these questions have already been asked and answered.

My site is just a simple, one-page outline of a psychology course that
I teach. It has no inbound links and a single outbound link. I
submitted the site to Google but they haven't yet got around to
indexing it. I suppose that's why the site now has a PR of 0. (That's a
question.)

Yep.

Will the PR become 1 after Google's spider crawls it, even though it
has no backlinks?

Nope, you need links.

Also, how much of a PR boost will my site give to the single site it
links to?

Depends on the page's PR that is linking to your page. Also weighing in the
factor of how many links it has on that page. You need links to your site as
you site will not stay or get indexed without PR.

Stacey

On 10 Nov 2005 12:06:39 -0800, "whitesmith" <apasserby (AT) hushmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

I'm a psychology instructor, not a webmaster, so please excuse me if
these questions have already been asked and answered.

My site is just a simple, one-page outline of a psychology course that
I teach. It has no inbound links and a single outbound link. I
submitted the site to Google but they haven't yet got around to
indexing it. I suppose that's why the site now has a PR of 0. (That's a
question.)

Will the PR become 1 after Google's spider crawls it, even though it
has no backlinks?

Also, how much of a PR boost will my site give to the single site it
links to?

Thanks to all who answer.

Where's your site? What's the url? I'll link to it, that'll get it
included. So will a couple of the others, probably. I wouldn't go
worrying about PR for now.

BB
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On 10 Nov 2005 12:06:39 -0800, "whitesmith" <apasserby (AT) hushmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

I'm a psychology instructor, not a webmaster, so please excuse me if
these questions have already been asked and answered.

My site is just a simple, one-page outline of a psychology course that
I teach. It has no inbound links and a single outbound link. I
submitted the site to Google but they haven't yet got around to
indexing it. I suppose that's why the site now has a PR of 0. (That's a
question.)

Will the PR become 1 after Google's spider crawls it, even though it
has no backlinks?
No, PR is derived based on a site's backlinks adn their values/worth.

..
It also helps the site to get indexed if there is at least one
backlink to it - submitting it manually to Google isn't enough for
indexing as the nature of the web is built upon networking or sites
linking together. Your one outbound link isn't helping the spider to
have a link to follow TO your course outline,

Until you get a backlink, your PR will likely stay at PR0

Also, how much of a PR boost will my site give to the single site it
links to?

PR is not sitewide - like someone has a PR3 then that is automatically
carried through the site. PR is page-by-page (in the site).

YOu can achieve PR1 easily. Probably even PR2. Just seek out a good
place or two to willingly share a link to your site - and you can
probably become PR3 (although a PR update just occured in October so
will be another couple of months or so before Google updates the
display on the toolbar.

How much of that PR will flow to the other site you are linking to _
depends on things like how many other links you will be sharing on
that page. If just the one then it will not have to share as much with
others.

PR alone will not help your page rank well in searches[1] - and you
will want to have more than PR1 if going to concern yourself with PR
thoughts - most will tell you that you will want to try to build it up
to PR4 at least. (PR3 at the lowest).

Carol

[1] You may want to read up on keyword density, anchor text (don't use
"click here" or "read more here" type wording if you can avoid it),
heading markup, and alt="" text. If you feel overwhelmed at first,
even in your endeavors into webmastering, then relax - everyone had to
start somewhere and you don't have tolearn it all overnight.

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:26:48 +1000, brucie <shit (AT) usenetshit (DOT) info>
wrote:

In post <news:1131653199.846299.162490 (AT) g43g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
whitesmith said:

My site is just a simple, one-page outline of a psychology course that
I teach. It has no inbound links and a single outbound link.

tell your students a requirement for them passing is to write up a page on
their site about how fantastic you/the course is and link to your page.

Yep, that would work.

if they don't have a site tell 'em to get one.

Extra credit?

CArol

Thank you all for your comments, especially the longer ones. Looks like
I have a long road ahead of me. I suppose if it were shorter and well
paved everyone would have PR=10. A happy Thanksgiving to one and all.