Why Inner Pages are not getting Page Rank?

[WhiteDigitalMedia]

My Company has 17 news magazine websites (Drupal) dedicated to different fields.

Our all these websites have same IP address. Out of 17 websites our 6 websites are Geo targetted. On these Geo-targetted websites some of our content are repetitive. Some of our world wide news websites content are also present on our Geo-targetted website.

After so many months our inner pages of these websites are not getting ranked & shows page rank not available. Some gave me reason as it may be because of same content we are posting. Others told me to change my every single IP address for my 17 websites.

Is it necessary to have dedicated IP address for all my 17 websites or I have to change only GEO targetted website IP address? Or I should keep same content on other websites..

Please advice...Why my websites inner pages are not ranking?

[edited by: tedster at 12:24 pm (utc) on Aug 19, 2010]

[tedster]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

First thing - do not confuse visible PageRank (toolbar PageRank) and actually ranking in the search results. Google only updates the toolbar PageRank numbers about 4 times a year - even though they are calculating PageRank in private on a continual basis. The last time PageRank was updates on the toolbar was back April.

Because you are a news related publication, your new articles will be very recent and unlikely ever to show visible PageRank - but that doesn't mean they can't rank - they can because Google will have a private record of PageRank for them.

You definitely do NOT need a separate IP address for each site - and that's especially true if it is only your sites on the IP address and no one else.

If you are only republishing new feeds and other websites have the same news articles available, then it will be harder to get search traffic from Google because they try not to repeat the same content from different websites - because that is not useful to the searcher. In those cases many of the duplicate sources for the article will be filtered out.

Here are some good ways to see if you are ranking - so you don't confuse it with seeing a PageRank number on the toolbar:
1) Watch the actual traffic sent from Google. Use some form of server log analysis or third party analytics to do this.
2) Register for a Webmaster Tools account. Google will show you data in there about how often you rank for various keywords, how many clicks they send you and what positions you ranked for on various keywords.