Length of Time before PageRank Is Assigned

new site page rank of zero

[SaltCreek]

I've got a new site that we loaded content to on 1/15. Prior to opening the site to the public, it was password protected and it's robots.txt file instructed not to spider.

The site is now live and has been getting crawled by Google. I'm fairly certain every page available has been indexed (about 100+ pages). The site does have some decent new content and PR 4/5 incoming links.

Yet, the site site has a PR of 0.

Is this normal? Am I waiting for a PR update to occur?

Thanks!

[neuron]

There was a PR update in April, I don't recall the date. After that the next one came on June 23rd, and then another one on October 6, or aroundtherabouts. Since then PR updates have not been so chunked. I believe another one came around the first of the year.

However, PR updating now seems to be reverting back to a "rolling" update, or they are becoming less noticable and effecting less sites at one time.

(Note: the above reference Toolbar PR, which does not accurately reflect the PR that is used in Google's algorithm.)

Yes, you are waiting for an update, but with the increasing rate of changes that have been occuring at google for the past 6 to 8 weeks, I don't think anyone would venture to estimate when toolbar PR will be updated for you site. It could very well not happen until April or June, and it could very well happen in just a few days.

As a suggestion you may want to consider for future site builds, I like to post just a page or two as placeholders for a site and get PR links pointed at it well ahead of the site going live. That gives the site time to accumulate and reflect toolbar PR, and then I put the actual live content on the site, which was previously developed on a no-crawl development domain.

[SaltCreek]

Thanks for the information.

After further investigation, I've realized that our pages are NOT coming up for our targeted keywords, which much of our content and articles is written about. I thought this was do to us not having been assigned page rank, yet.

I am seeing some of the artciles I published on various ezine sites and many of the reciprocal links I've established with sites in the same genre coming up for our keywords.

If we do a search for our company name, we do see all of pages in the index.

It is a matter of just waiting or should I now be worrying?

Is there a recommended way of checking Google's PR if the toolbar is not a good indication?

[hugo_guzman]

Universal "visual" or "toolbar" PR updates have been occuring every 3 months or so. The last 3 updates are as follows: January 1st, October 7th, June 22nd

If this trend continues the next PR update should occur around the beginning of April.