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Tonight (UK time) I have noticed that my site has went back to being a PR of 5 when it went down in Jan...
Anyone else confirm this?
edited: After 5mins it has gone back to a PR of 4!
-George
As I wrote in another post, I dont understand where people had this idea that PR5 website's pages has hundreds of visitors from searching engines and PR6 ones has thousands!
And yes, I am new to the SEO science but I can confirm that PR has a low (if not a very low) weight on SERPs.
Cheers,
--moftary
It is likely however that you went from a 5.98 to a 6.01 and thus the increase is only slight.
jothelion
One point of interest to those who say links pages are dead: PR-wise my "theme-links.php" pages are actually doing better than average. As they have only just hit PR4 I don't know yet if they actually pass PR of course.
and dropped down from a pr 6 to a 5.
but it's on & off at the moment.
hopefully theres still some more data to come before it's final.
And yes, I am new to the SEO science but I can confirm that PR has a low (if not a very low) weight on SERPs.
True, but when it goes up, it gives you a sense that you're doing things generally right, (perhaps wishful thinking). It helps with the bot too, having a higher PR.
As I wrote in another post, I dont understand where people had this idea that PR5 website's pages has hundreds of visitors from searching engines and PR6 ones has thousands!
I don't have that idea - and I don't think a lot of other people have either. You need to market your website - PR is no good on its own. It's not what you've got - it's what you do with it. :)
And yes, I am new to the SEO science but I can confirm that PR has a low (if not a very low) weight on SERPs.
Somebody has mis-informed you, take that from somebody who isn't new to SEO science. The only thing we can say is that PR has LESS weight.
It is likely however that you went from a 5.98 to a 6.01 and thus the increase is only slight.
My openion is based on the very early increase from PR1 to PR5, it hasnt been enough time to judge the increase from PR5 to PR6.
Cheers,
--moftary
the effects of the increased inbound links / PR are rolling. i.e. you should have already seen the effects of this change. The current change / "update" is just an update to the display of backlinks and PR, the effects have already taken place.
Some cajole might help
Mc
One of my other friends went from blank space to pr6! He had changed the domain name and he's keeping the other site as a mirror and backup so we thought he was being penalized in some way. His site is excellent though and really should be high pr.
YAY! Signs of life that are good!
BTW, this seems like a good quiet time to remind people that if you're obsessively hardwiring IP addresses in your hosts file in order to check what a PageRank display says: don't forget that there are other search engines out there. Spend some time looking at rankings on other engines as well (the old "don't put all your eggs in one basket" theme). All that time spent on backlink/PR checking would also pay off by spending that time looking at how other search engines score pages. :)
Mc
On this pr update and the last, the homepage of a site that I sponsor has been greybarred on both occasions, however at somepoint the pr seems to return, though last time at 1 point less than it used to be.
The site is a very highly regarded authority site for a certain aspect of web design, has a lot of organic backlinks from other authoratative sites, and I can't for the life of me figure out why the homepage gets greybarred while the rest of the site is fine.
My rankings have remained the same for a while now. Very high up in my niche and #1 in the world for a whole stack of niche phrases.
Mc
There have been a number of recent discussions noting that these page have been filtered from the backlink results. With a little research you should be able to draw your own conclusions as there are those that are sure that these links are not being counted as a backlink or transferring PR and then there are those that are sure they are counted and pass PR, but are just not displayed when using the link: command.
Google and pages named /links [webmasterworld.com]
High PR backlinks not showing? [webmasterworld.com]
Thanks
Mc
That is because you are looking at a different data center. It will all be apparent soon
A while back I put up a page to test something, and that page had a link to the root of my local testing server. I have the domain for that location mapped in my hosts file. A site with the same name does not exist live on the internet.
Well, I had forgotten about that page and google spidered it. At some point in around November, I believe, I opened a browser window and noticed that my root server had PR via the toolbar!
So I clicked to check backlinks, saw the offending page and took it down. The pr went away during the next update/pr update.
But now it's back! Crazy stuff, no links out there point to that 'domain'; I checked on other SE's as well. A weird one for sure...
