Topic: Punbb page rank
Just found out that punBB has the quite impressive google pagerank of 7/10 according to http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
Other sites with the same rank are: www.aftonbladet.se (swedish evening newspaper) www.dn.se (swedish morning paper).
A really big swedish BB about computers www.sweclockers.com only comes up with a 5...
To explain this i will quote an article i found about the system:
2. Give away something useful
www.phpbb.com has a Toolbar PR of 8/10 (at the time of writing) and it has no big money or marketing behind it! How can this be?
What the group has done is write a very useful bulletin board system that is becoming very popular on many websites. And at the bottom of every page, in every installation, is this HTML code:
Powered by <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/" target="_blank">phpBB</a>
The administrator of each installation can remove that link, but most don?t because they want to return the favour?
Can you imagine all those millions of pages giving a fraction of a vote to www.phpbb.com? Wow!
* Principle: Make it worth other people?s while to use your content or tools. If your give-away is good enough other site admins will gladly give you a link back.
* Principle: it?s probably better to get lots (perhaps thousands) of links from sites with small PR than to spend any time or money desperately trying to get just the one link from a high PR page.
The concept of this site is good for gaining a high page rank! YAY! =P