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I often read that PR is unimportant, what matters is the SERP's.
No doubt that SERP is what really matter and my site prooved it by having a PR4 and beating others with a higher PR.
I even used to be #1 for some keywords (due to good info that i found here).
However, i started to think that my PR must be going up and down between 4.01 and 4.99.
I've read that google will not crawl deep enough when the site is not important enough. I guess that PR is important when it comes to this point.
My site is online since februari and it already happend twice that after an update, some pages disappeared from the index.
The problem is that it are deep pages (level3) and all of these pages are optimised for 1 specific product.
First time, all pages got back in after being submitted to DMOZ and my PR raised from 2 to 4.
Now, with the oktober update, the deep pages got out of the index again (while the number of backlinks has gone from 2 to 16) so the only reason i can think off is that my PR4 is now worth less than the PR4 that i had before the update.
So, what i'd like to know is, if PR really doesn't matter at all.
If you've been told that PR isn't important, then you've been talking to someone who doesn't understand how Google works. While it's true that there are many other factors that are used to determine where a page ranks for a given query, in most situations, PR trumps all.
Not only does it play a big role in ranking, it also plays a big role in both crawling schedules and spam filters.
If you had the job of crawling 3 billion documents in 30 days, wouldn't it make sense to start with the most important documents first?
If you were going to introduce a new filter to try and catch cross-linking or duplicate content, wouldn't it make sense to test it out on the least important documents in your database?
If you get a chance, spend some time reading through some of the hundreds and hundreds of PR0 posts here and then ask yourself how many of them started out
"Before last months update, my site showed a PageRank of 7 but now my toolbar shows all white."
You won't find many. There is a certain level of stability that comes with achieving a PageRank above 6.
There is a certain level of stability that comes with achieving a PageRank above 6.
For what its worth:
On asking a google salesman what would happen if my hosting server was down/malfunctioning during a deep crawl (my nightmare scenario) - basically would I not be in the index for the consecutive month?
He asked what PR I was. I said 6. He said do not worry, your pages will stay. (the ones of the previous index)
good info and also in [webmasterworld.com...]
that dutch guy :) gave me.
I suspected something like that but didn't know it really was that bad.
My home page (yeap, using frames) has a PR4. The pages insite the frameset (including the navigation page) have a PR3.
On the navigation page i link to 5 major sub-pages and a site map. They all get indexed and have a PR2. And next, down one more level, where the important product pages reside, they are not indexed anymore.
Urghh, think i should get rid of frames?
