Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
After checking things out on <snip> and <snip> I have come to the conclusion that there are a few things that are really affecting the issue of pagerank, both of these sites used to rank a 4 or higher in pagerank, and have now dropped to 0.
It came as a big surprise at the first, but after studying our sites, and analyzing a few factors, it's not really that big of a surprise now, the hard part is re-gaining the pagerank again.
Of the factors that I studied the biggest one in my opinion was adding payed text advertising to our sites, not this doesn't affect every site that does it, because all of our sites have it to an extent, and some of them haven't lost any pagerank at all.
Number two was incoming links that are coming from other sites and linking to yours, and some of this you can't control, but you can't control about 90% of it, you want to make sure that links pointing to your sight are from sites that are highly relevant to your site, in other words they discuss the same topic as your site does, make sure that the content is well written, and doesn't deviate from the main topic to often.
Make sure that the navigation structure of the site is well built, in other words, click the navigation links and make sure that they all take you where they're supposed to, and none of them are ending in a 404 or a 301 error.
These two ideas have helped us with the pagerank thing.
David C. Atkin
[edited by: physics at 9:05 pm (utc) on April 21, 2008]
[edit reason] No url drops allowed [/edit]
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 12:16 am (utc) on June 26, 2008]
[edit reason] thread splice error [/edit]
Just went from PR5 to PR3 [webmasterworld.com]
