In my internet wanderings, I found an article that may be of interest to quite a few people. It seems a recent filing for a patent (Patent Application 20050071741 on March 31, 2005) has brought to light many of the things that affect your Google page rank.

One of the first things the writer noticed was this rule

How many years did you register your domain name for?
If it's only one then that's a point against you in Google's eyes.

I just wondered over to GoDaddy and updated my registration to 72 years. All you searches are belong to me...

Anyhow, go check it out, alot of interesting stuffs.