Comments on: Did you get slapped by the recent Google Smackdown? And if so, how hard?

By: easy appetizers

easy appetizers — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:56:20 +0000

For me, content is the King, SEO is the Queen. So, PR is just the indicator which I don’t think I can depended on.

By: The NicheBOT Guy

The NicheBOT Guy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:14:25 +0000

Samantha,

You can find PageRank here at this tool:

http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/future-pagerank/

That shows you what the PageRank of a page and a number of data centers around the world.

You can further download the Google Toolbar here that also has a PageRank indicator built into it…

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html

Best,

Jim

By: Samantha

Samantha — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:51:43 +0000

Where do I find my google page rank for my site, I have google analytics but it doesn’t tell me, where is a good source for page ranks for the search engines?
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

By: Sara Gray

Sara Gray — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:32:39 +0000

Well, I love looking at my page rank on various pages of my site, but for me, it’s always just been for fun. I just keep plodding away, adding more and more content and although i don’t have a HUGE page rank, I certainly have lots of my pages on the first 2 pages of Google and other search engines. For me that is where the gold is. Thanks for a great article – heartening and a good reminder to not get so caught up in the numbers.

By: SirCommy

SirCommy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:46:50 +0000

Pagerank do vary a lot on its each update. One of my PR1 sites dropped to 0, BUT one of my PR0 sites jumped directly to PR4, that was rather shocking, however, I never paid attention to PageRank, I just use some tools to check my search engine positions, ‘that’ is what counts. PageRank is just a fast way to determine the “importance” of a site in case one wants to buy it/link to it/document from it etc. But at the end, PageRank DOES have a purpose and it *is* a way to see that a site has its importance in search engines and that other people are willingly linking to it, perhaps due to link exchange or just the fact that they enjoyed the site and useful resources are in it. But once again, seek your search engine positions, not the ranking
One more example I can give here:
A certain website with PR1 can show up in the first page of search engines on some keywords and a PR3 website can show in page 2 or 3 on its keyword. So throw your PR worries away and concentrate on your positions and note that titles and keywords are most important. I won’t get into many details, like, fresh content? a LOT of it?

Cheers

By: OLED

OLED — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:27:48 +0000

seems a little bit tricky for the google logistics

By: Cris

Cris — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:35:12 +0000

I quite worrying about PR a year ago or so. I have one site that has 50 static pages of links and some sporadic RSS feeds – that’s it. Some of the pages have over 50 links on them. Yet consistently I have been receiving at least 1200 unique visitors each and every day for the past three years. The PR on these pages have gone anywhere from 0 to 5, but the organic traffic has always stayed at an average 1200 per day.

These pages contain text links that people are searching on everyday – they would be considered “long-tail”. But they give people what they are searching for, and the search engines (all 3 majors) like sending people to them. And for those who don’t find what they need, they click on the adsense and give me about $400/month in revenue. So everybody’s happy, and there’s no junk on these pages. The interesting part is that the pages have stayed basically the same without too many updates the past three years – so that kind of goes against the fresh content theory in some ways too.

Enjoyed your post – thanks! Cris

By: Kim Snyder

Kim Snyder — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:47:07 +0000

Thanks! I have one long running ad thats not google adsense.
But I have had it for months so its not like its going to be the cause now, I was just wondering.
I just keep adding content and I am sure it will return. The PR seems to matter most to those who want to link with you not your site itself.

By: Star

Star — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:40:51 +0000

Are there any nichbot meetings in LA?
I am building a nwe website,well i actually hired someone and need help with the seo part of it…

By: Cy

Cy — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:40:18 +0000

Well, in fact I personally didn’t get affectedt too much, but one of my client’s domains dropped out, despite the fact, that I use totally white hat measures to optimize my clients. The reason, as to my beleaves are as follows:

My client had 2 domains, -one was english, the otherone in german. Now, on the english-search, you can’t find the german site, nore can you find the english site in the german search any longer, even though, the company has two headquarters in europe, -one governing the english and european market, one just the german. I believe, google is getting more concerned about de-valuing links from other language sites, in order to get more and better related content