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Happy New Year.
One site that happened to in the last update, caught up in this update though.
Oh, and to the guy that posted that it may be because Google is splitting the PR; I use 301's on all my sites so that's not the issue.
Too bad for you. Choosing to not understand why you rank how you do is your choice, but it leads to stagnation.
I understand exactly why we rank as we do. We have:
1. More relevant content
2. More "on-theme" sites linking to us (i.e. one-way links with relevant and varied anchor text)
3. We don't play in the "gray" SEO areas
4. We don't concern ourselves with short term SERP changes, as we don't depend on google (or any other engine's) free traffic to maintain our business.
5. We know that the importance of PR has gone the way of the dodo, and it's relevant links/content that has (and always will) won the day.
Oh, and to the guy that posted that it may be because Google is splitting the PR; I use 301's on all my sites so that's not the issue.
If you are doing this correctly, then why would google reurn PR for those urls? I just had this same exact problem you described and fixed it with 301s - the home page now returns the expected PR and the "bad" references are now at PR0.
Yahoo seems to have more problems with 301s and 302s, but google "fixed" the problem pretty quickly.
I'm un-installing the ToolBar. What is the point?
An associate's new site that looks like it has gone to PR 4 in the Google Directory, remained at PR 1 on the toolbar. I suspect that their are occasional glitches when Google is not showing the new PR.
Something else is bugging me; inner page which was created on December 20th got PR5! From PR0 to PR5 for two weeks? I like it, but I doubt the algo works as it was supposed to work...
Anyway, very nice present on the first day of 2005 for me :))
More importantly, while you show PR6, it's your real PR that matters and the actual difference may be something like the differences between 7012 and 6986... meaning the change hasn't actually been much even though it looks like it.
On the other hand, it seems to me that this is a fairly large change, not a small one. The Google Add URL page going to 9 while Yahoo goes to 10 represents a rather large shift from Google's linking family to Yahoo's linking family.
(I also see a few mistakes in PR but others seem to have been corrected.... I have to laugh that the guy's electoral vote website finally shows it's real PR, two months after the election and seven or so months after he earned it via linking.)
To me the new pr change stems from some error which will hopefully be fixed. One of my pages with absolutly one back link from a pr2 got a pr6. Google declares 25 backlinks which are false. The error apears to be some sort of mix up. Some pages are assumed to have backlinks from high pr pages, when in fact they don't
I hope its not some error although i did wonder my domain and hosting went live 24th Dec and already has a PR3 not much i grant you but so soon? still I'm not complaining i think maybe i just caught the update in time :)
but today I find my page rank has increased on every page - some went from 6 to 7, others from 1 to 4 and 5!
Doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Can anyone explain?
If my SERPs disappeared wouldn't my page rank fall or are they unrelated? Or do I just need to wait.
Try validating your hom page html.
I've had sites go pr5 for inner apges, pr2 for home, I'd accidentally deleted a <body> tag on the home page.
I notice a lot of dmoz.org pages have dropped a notch in PR. Likely because the dmoz.org gets a lot of its PR from the Google directory. There likely will be somewhat of a domino effect.
or 5.001, 5.002, 5.003 for that matter. What this means is that although you may not SEE any change in your pagerank it may have moved up or down decimal wise for that
given page.
Interior pages all have increased PR.
Link count has increased around 20%
SERP positions unchanged for the moment.
I know PR is not the most important thing but its a bit dissapointing when you have been trying for a long time to increase inbounds to see the PR drop!
Perhaps this a sign that the PR calculations are not finished yet...I hope so anyway..:((
Good news for me....
I got a Page rank on my website....but not the higher..it's just...2
But what good is.....i got it back after 8 months..after a long time gap......but loosing the PR and getting it back ..it's something to feel happy abt...
wel all i want to say is....Thanxs a lot to every1 at webmasterworld ...
Regards,
KaMran :)
Yesterday one of my sites PR changed from PR6 to PR5, and another site changed from PR5 to PR6. Now, I see both sites PR back to their origins!
--mOftary
These pages show in serps as URL only, which is to be expected. However they have now been given a PR, which seems odd. PR for pages Google has never visited?
