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lot of people come veryday, and the home page has pagerank of 4, but no other page in asp has got any ranking, but only a 0 out of ten.
all the pages are correctly indexed and updated every week or even 4 times a week.
i don't know why the rank isn't increasing for the content pages.
hope to see replies from high order webmasters.
regards,
dhaliwal
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PR as reported by the toolbar is unreliable - SERPS are what count.
Do you have external links to deep pages?
PR is calculated iteratively. If the only links to deeper pages are internal, at least one additional iteration will probably be required before internal pages show any PR.
Kaled.
Propelled us from the basement to the penthouse with Google.
ok:
www.site.com/page.asp?something=123&else=456
bad:
www.site.com/page.asp?id=123&else=456&else2=789&else3=123
also try to check the cached copy of your internal ASP pages at google.
In light of the past few updates, Flor*da, Aust*n and Br*ndy, I have noticed a trend which mplies better rankings for deep URLs with dynamic contents from template based shopping cart websites and such.
There are quite a few dynamic URLS ranking in top 5 for many markets that I have checked. especially in this new Br*ndy update.
Also, if you are very concerned about the dyanmic URLS you might want to look into URL Rewriting, which is a very very powerful tool.
Don't Give Up!
TheVoodoo
and voodoo, i can't understand what you wanted to say
could you please be in some simple language.
best regards to all
dhaliwal
My serps have actually improved a bit in the recent update so I am thinking it is a matter of time until the pr updates.
I have never been banned or anything like that so I am not overly scared I have been penalized, but it does put a wrench in building link relationships. I have already been turned down by people who requested links on my old pr 2-3 .php pages despite the fact the content is the same. They are scared of my pr0 pages.
No big deal as long as the traffic keeps coming, I will just keep building content.
In this world of SE turmoil, I would not give up my page name i.e. URLs. Bu changing to an ASP model and not keeping you old page names you have dumped all the PR's and rankings g the .PHP pages and started new with Fresh .ASP pages.
For later reference, SE's understand that website owners change their website structure or layout or even domain name over time. The Permanent 301 Redirect is one solution. However I am not sure if you can put hundreds of thoe to redirect old .PHP urls to new .ASP urls and not get frowned at by SE's. ;)
Another solution would have been configuring your server to treat .PHP files as if they were .ASP which can be done in many different ways. This way you would not have needed to change your file names and hence URLS.
Sorry to be vague! See the posting here for more info on URL Rewriting and Dynamic Pages.
Thanks,
TheVoodoo
i think we all can excel with exchanging ideas and making a better earning for all of us by extracting greater traffic from search engines.
i would appreciate more suggestions on how to improve the search engine rankings and how to fetch more geniune traffic.
also do discuss how we can use asp and at the same time make the page search engine friendly.
also there is one mroe point to make, most of the websites use the long url and & and? for asp pages, so it provides more of usability and functions to users.
so how can we neglect what the user wants, but one importnat thing is to please the search engine spider.
well waiting for more people to give some knowledge and share some secrets.
thanks all who replied and more thanks to voodoo
regards,
dhaliwal
PageRank can flow to dynamic pages and .asp pages though.
I'm sure this is true, although I see toolbar oddities in displaying the PR of dynamic pages. These pages are indexed and rank reasonably well, and are linked well internally, but show zero toolbar PR. To me, this looks like a toolbar issue as the pages almost certainly have reasonable PR based both on linkage and actual search performance.
if you don't know how, find someone who does.
I can't think of how dynamically generated pages could be a problem for the alogrithm that is why I am asking for Googleguy to confirm whether there is an issue with the Toolbar that is being dealt with in the near future.
Google only LIMITS the amount of URLS with? in the URL string.
Your pages have probably not been ASSIGNED a pagerank yet. Google usually does a first PR assignment to the homepage, and then subpages later.
Patience.
As a sidenote, since the Austin update, index.php and index.php?asdl=asdasd and index.php?page=contact all get the same PR.
The only time I've noticed toolbar PR on a dynamic page is when there's a hard link coming from a static page.
For instance, if I leave a link to a featured product on my default.html long enough, it shows toolbar PR even though it's:
http:¦¦www.domain.com/productdetail.asp?sku=100
However, I've noticed zero ranking difference. They do such a great job indexing & ranking my whitebar asp pages, I could care less what the toolbar says and have no reason to rewrite.
If you're doing db-driven pages you will also want to think about automating page titles with relevant keywords picked up from fields in the db. Don't use all the fields, just pick the ones that make up key phrases that you might want to be found on eg you might want them to read [widget] [widget-type] [colour] [town], assuming those to be four relevant fields
an extension of this, if you have a lot of pages for which those page titles would then be the same would then be to mix up the order or use some coding to produce relevant synonyms.
I'd also put these dynamically generated phrases as the anchor text internal links on your site.
You might also want to ensure that that same, clearly relevant phrase was also in the on-page headers.
Also I'd reiterate the advice about making the URLs look static - some other spiders like them better, and also the newly generated static URLs can include those keywords again.
Apologies if this is old stuff for some readers, but it is amazing how many sites are out there that have clearly done some SEO but have not done the simple stuff above.
Disclaimer: I'd be very interested if anyone disagrees with the above techniques! All I know I learned from this site!
asp and php pages often take longer to show PR in the toolbar. That's just the way it is. Sometimes, months can go by. Sometimes, those pages might never show PR. Provided that the page is indexed, this does not affect its actual PR score nor its ranking in any way. I've noticed this across hundreds of sites and pages. One way around it, if you are really concerned about literally seeing the PR in the toolbar, is to get more deep links to those pages.
Ha! Just noticed skipfactor's comments above. Seems we concur. :)
However, I have products that have been up for over a year that still show whitebar. When I saw the green on a dynamic page, it of course caught my eye so I backtracked, and the static link was the only difference I could come up with.
Interesting thread, anyone have mature dynamic pages with no static internal or external hard linking showing green?
i know that my content is best on internet, but until google gives it a higher pr i think it won't be hep in masses.
lets hope for better time to come, as now i have even changed the content pages to .htm and now we have pages both in asp and htm site.
lol a 2 way website for people to enjoy, but there are more than 400 pages which i have to convert to htm
need more tips to improve ranking
regards,
dhaliwal
