Display of PR and Backlinks for New Site

... does it take longer now?

[austtr]

A new site went online 6 weeks ago, complete with a couple of decent inbounds for Googlebot.

It was crawled almost immediately and has been heavily crawled almost every day since. A site:www.domainname.com search returns all the pages, complete with recent dates and up-to-date caches. There are approximately 20 or so inbounds from external, non related sites in the PR5 to 7 range.

Yet the site continues to show no PR or inbound links other than the original 2 that were in place at launch date. Past experience tells me that by now, the site should be seeing more traffic than the trickle it is actually getting.

Is my memory playing tricks on me or is 6 weeks an unusually long time for Google to get a site into circulation?

In usual circumstances, I would just sit back and wait for Google to do its thing, but in this case, I unwittingly bought a re-cycled domain name and the longer this drags on, the more I'm beginning to wonder if I may have inherited some problems associated with the original use of the domain.

Anyone care to share how long its taking for their new sites get PR and links?

[MarkHutch]

I would give it a couple of more months. Google doesn't update on a regular basis like it use to. You should be fine. Just give it a little more time.

[stargeek]

On one of the new sites that I've launched about 4 weeks ago, I've noticed almost exatcly the same phenomenon. Ink seems to be even slower to index new pages/sites.

[madman21]

I'm having the same problem. I changed my domain name about three weeks ago. I have around 10 pr5 links pointing to my site but no pr showing yet. Google has indexed about half of it. My old domain name was PR4 which redirects to my new name.

[airpal]

Austtr, join the club... I've been waiting 6-7 weeks for PR to update/display now for a new site with very solid, anchor-text rich backlinks, but from non-themed sites.

[ukgimp]

despite crawling and ranking PR only jumped one point on two of the interior sections. Definitely strange albeit not a major problem. This on a site that is 2.5 months old.

[HarryM]

A few months ago whenever I put up a new page it would get a PR0 (toolbar white) within a few days of google visiting it, and within a few weeks it would get an apropriate PR in line with similar pages. Now my new pages only get as far as PR0, and the PR revaluation seems to take for ever. Similarly I am still waiting for some backlinks obtained in late 2003 to show up.

My suspicion is that Google has been so busy refining its algo, and possibly other things I am unaware of, that PR and backlinks updating has had to take a back seat.

[seofreak]

By this sunday it will be 6 weeks since last PR update.

But if you are doing well in the serps PR shouldn't matter to you.

[bether2]

I saw a backlink and PR update on Feb 10. There's a thread floating around in this forum somewhere on it.

Beth

[bhartzer]

On February 10th? Are you sure? I have pages/sites that I created back in January that are showing tons of backlinks now but still have no PR.

[seofreak]

might have been a PR glimpse .. certainly wouldn't count as update.

[HarryM]

PR shouldn't matter to you

Perhaps not, but the last time my PR increased I noticed a significant rise in traffic. Who is to say it won't happen again?

[webnewton]

I am also experiencing the same problem with my sites. They're crawled almost every day but google is not updating the cache or the backward links. This is happening with many sites who're in existence for some time now. As you told that you're domain is not a new one, the same must have been the case with your site also.
Also from my experience i've noticed that during every major update or dance google takes some time before it assigns the page rank to a site or updates its backword links.
Nothing wrong with your site. If something went wrong then it was the timing of your launching the site. Patience is the only thing i would suggest.

[bether2]

On February 10th? Are you sure? I have pages/sites that I created back in January that are showing tons of backlinks now but still have no PR.

bhartzer,

Here's the thread where it was discussed:

[webmasterworld.com ]

The PR for my index page didn't change at that time, but I saw changes in the PR for some lower pages. It went down. :(

Also saw a change in the number of backlinks for my index page (as well as backlinks for the only major lower-level page that I check regularly).

Beth

[austtr]

>>>> PR shouldn't matter to you

That is the theory.... the Google induced reality of the SEO world is that no-one links to a site showing PR zero. It might just be a new site, but most won't touch it for fear they are linking to a bad neighbourhood.... and without inbound links the site goes nowhere.

Only when that little green bar appears can you start making some decent progress.... hence the frustration when it doesn't show.

[steveb]

PR didn't update then. Only backlinks.

PR updated late January.

[seofreak]

>>But if you are doing well in the serps PR shouldn't matter to you.

To clarify what I meant, If you are doing well in the SERPS then your PR must be good / you can take a hint what it will be when google decides to update it. clear now?

[adfree]

>PR updated late January.

How often does PR update these days?

[bether2]

PR didn't update then. Only backlinks.
PR updated late January.

I trust steveb's call on this more than my own. It's possible that the change in PR on my lower level pages happened during the PR update at the end of Jan, but that I didn't notice the change until the Feb 10 backlinks update.

Beth