Need to tell someone who will understand

Site went PR went from 6 to 7

[karmov]

Well more specifically the main page of the site went from PR 6 to 7 :) I just felt the need to share amongst people who would understand. Nobody here at works really gets it (rightfully so), so I thought I'd celebrate somewhere where people would know what I'm celebrating.

Woo Hoo!

[Receptional]

jolly good show :)

[jbinbpt]

Cool Congrats... Same here no one understands why I get so excited about PR, Adwords and Webmaster World.

[edit_g]

Good one! My friends usually fall asleep when I mention "search engine"... Now, how about a link? ;)

[Shak]

congrats...

did you punch the air when you 1st realised :0

all those hours paying off...

Shak

[karmov]

Thanks :) Whee, I knew I'd get a better reaction here.

Shak : not really but I did jump out of my chair real fast and desperately tried to find someone to tell who would care :)

[trillianjedi]

I care!

Good work Karmov!

Out of interest, did you get one meaty PR8 link or did you do it the hard way?

TJ

[bunltd]

Good job! Way to go! <insert high-five>

We understand.

LisaB

[Chndru]

Good work! ^5 :)

[buckworks]

Three cheers!

[dragonlady7]

Congrats.
That's a pretty good achievement!

Well, I look at it like this-- the less they understand of what I do, the less they mess with me. So they don't yell at me when I do badly, but they don't praise me when I do well either. I guess you sacrifice the glory for the, well, autonomy.

Because you know there really isn't much glory to be had, and there's a whole lot of micromanaging to be had if they think they know what you do.

[karmov]

trillian : I was pretty lucky I seemed to be a high 6, but no, no big PR 8 links to push me over the top. I took over the site 6 months ago and have been making a heap of changes. A lot of it has been restructuring content and link structure to feedback PR. A small campaign to get people who really should have been linking to us to actually do so seems to have gotten us an extra 20 links. A whole lot of little changes here there and everywhere.

I've got some more "low hanging fruit" to attack to try and start the long road to 8.

Dragonlady : Good points. I really do enjoy the autonomy I have. There are a few people that I meet with to discuss major stuff, but for the most part I do fly solo and it is very enjoyable. I did have experience with a bit of micromanagement early on, but it disapeared after a few well educated discussions :)

[trillianjedi]

but it disapeared after a few well educated discussions :)

LOL

Well good on you for doing it the hard (clever) way!

Out of interest, what did you alter in terms of the site and internal link structure that you think tipped it over the edge? Hope you don't mind me asking.

TJ

[curlykarl]

:) Congrats!

Karl

[mack]

I know the feeling, You do something great in SE land and no one in the real world has a clue what youre talking about.

Well we all know what you mean and PR7 is a great acheivement. Well done.

Mack.

[karmov]

trillian : One big thing that I did was that I wrapped up a bunch of stuff including our web cam pages in our menu structure (they had been previously opened up in windows with nothing but the content in them). This accumulated a lot of incoming pagerank that was dying on orphaned pages that never linked back into the site. I've still got some of those kicking around that I have to tackle. The way they had previously been done was with a javascript sized page so you'd have a window exactly the size of the content which looked really cool and all, but did waste a lot of PR and required JS which I'm not a big fan of because of the dependence on end users being set up the way you expect (an assumption I hate to make).

And as I mentioned before there was a small drive to encourage people who should be linking to us to actually do so, it had mediocre success but all of the little bits seem to have added up :)

[webwoman]

Good Job and Big Congrats! Don't you just love the feeling of knowing that *you* created that page rank because you are skilled and clever and figured out how to do it? It's a real power high for me when this happens. I love playing with the search engine gods :)

[trillianjedi]

all of the little bits seem to have added up :)

It's often the little bits that make all the difference - for both users and search engines.

;-)

Thanks for sharing your methods. I've setup our site as you have done now from the beginning, so think we're about as SEO'd in terms of page rank as we can be. I asked because you never know what you may have missed.......

And again, WELL DONE!

TJ