After 4 months pagerank is still stuck at zero!

[franson]

I have a <removed> website online since 4 months but pagerank is still stuck to zero.

I'll summarize the SEO steps I have done since the start:
1. I have made URLs seo friendly and now google has surfed the whole site. (430 unique pages).
2. I have changed title and meta tags for each page as many pages were in the supplemental index. Now NO pages are in the supplemental index.
3. The number of inbound link has increased (this has been an automatic thing as the quality of the service is high.). Now I can see in Google webmaster tools that there are 160 external links to the homepage. (But if I search for external links with the "site:" command of google only 16 results are returned).
4. I have paid to be listed in Yahoo directory. And I have been there since the start.
5. I have waited more than enough time for the ranking to update.. but NOTHING happened.

I have no idea what to do anymore :(! Soon I will also introduce different languages for each page. But if this pagerank problem is not solved there is no much point to go on.

Why a perfectly normal site with decent amount of links could suffer this? a competitor that started together with us is beating us because of this.

please let me know any idea of what i should do now. and what the possible causes of this are..

Thanks

Franson

[edited by: tedster at 9:48 am (utc) on Aug. 17, 2007]
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[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Nowadays with the sandbox filter and other factors that seem affect new websites four months is nothing at all. Give it another couple of months. If everything is as you say then it should happen soon.

[stevelibby]

Maybe a case of to much to quick. I always create a site, submit it to Yahoo and dmoz and then leave it. The liks from those 2 dir's will build naturallly over a few months, and start building, patience is key.

[bw3ttt]

2. I have changed title and meta tags for each page as many pages were in the supplemental index. Now NO pages are in the supplemental index.

Google is no longer telling us whether pages are in the supplemental index.. They might still be there.

[pageoneresults]

I have a <removed> website online since 4 months but pagerank is still stuck to zero.

Are you getting organic (free) traffic from the search engines (Google)?

And, if you are getting free traffic from Google then that should tell you that the white bar means absolutely "zero" in this instance, pun intended. :)

[netmeg]

I tell my clients to expect to wait six to twelve months for purely organic traffic (no PPC, no paid links) from Google, after launch of a brand new site. If we get it sooner, that's great. But don't expect it.

[pp46]

I tell my customers for whome I build a new site that 4 - 6 months is what is needed to start getting results and after a year things will start to roll, (If you have done your job right)

(And yes I royally ignore the green bar, its means nothing) I have one site with PR 0 and its ranking N° one in its category....

Patience is the keyword....

[vetofunk]

I don't think there has been a Pagerank Update in last 4 months...so you wouldn't see anything but a 0 since then.

[pp46]

Yeah I know, I have even disabled my google tool bar so that I wont have to look at it any more :-)

The last thing I noticed though was that one of my new sites (8 months old) in 2 languages which had been attributed PR 3 for the main Language and PR 2 for the second suddenly got inversed rating : PR 2 for the main language and PR 3 for the second,

The first language is on the first page for the main keywords and the second language is around page 6, so go figure...

That when I disabled the google toolbar!

[dailypress]

thanks netmeg, I feel better now. I have spent so much time on my fairly new website and havent received any google referrals. I guess I need to wait another 5 months to make it a year!

although, I should say: that i started a new sites 3 weeks ago and am already getting a few google referrals!

I think Google's algorithm is random so no one really understands it!

its pure luck!

I can bet you Google doesnt even have an algorithm!