No Page Rank

But appear high in serps

[jamsy]

I finished a new site 6 weeks ago and got some real good backward links set up, anyhow didnt appear on the last major google update.

Today however, i am all over google like a rash for all my major keyowrds ;) but my PR remains grey

Apart from waiting till next update any thoughts on how i may check this rank before then?

thanks

[WebGuerrilla]

I've been seeing the same thing. New pages, added within a couple days of being crawled showing up for searches, despite the fact that they haven't been through a complete PR calculation update.

But I've also noticed that these pages tend to only show up for terms that aren't extremely competitive.

[Nick_W]

Well, I've said this same thing on a couple of other threads so sorry to bore you ;-) but I've found over the past 4 months or so that it's takeing me 2 updates to completely get a site settled down with PR and backward links...

Nick

[jamsy]

WebGuerilla

I am number two for "BUY WIDGETS"

For widgets read one of the top selling things on the net just a little tad behind books and flowers ;)

So your comment "But I've also noticed that these pages tend to only show up for terms that aren't extremely competitive" may not be totally true.

Will sticky you the search term

[WebGuerrilla]

Put the phrase in quotes so you only get back the pages that actually contain the two words together.

Then look at the page count returned. I'd be willing to bet that non-PR pages are only being returned for searches containing less than 5,000 competing pages.

Now that doesn't mean the phrase isn't worth being ranked for. It just means that there aren't many pages competing for that term. That is usually an indication that it isn't searched on much, but that's not always the case.

Sometimes you can strike gold with phrases like that.

[NFFC]

>only show up for terms that aren't extremely competitive.

I got #8 on a single keyword, 1 million results so low end competitive, on a mid update addition. I think it counts how they find you, this was found via a link from a PR8 page and was showing a 7 in the toolbar. At the full update PR fell to 6 but position improved. I don't think you get much of a link text boost if added mid-cycle.

[msgraph]

Linked to a brand new site in the middle of the last update. Since last week the site has been heavily crawled. Over the weekend the referrals have been pouring in from Google and Google/yahoo. No PR on the toolbar.

I've seen Google deep crawl before and add new stuff from time to time, but they seem more active in doing so with all these reports.