Google Page Rank Updates - Patience is Required
So you gone to all the hard work of creating a great site with targeted keywords, unique content and even worked on getting some quality backlinks, but still your Google Page Rank hasn’t changed.
Why?
Well the reason for this is that google doesn’t update the published Page Rank (accessible by all the tools) very regularly - In fact only every 2 or 3 months. That’s not to say that the actual page rank (not divulged) is still not used to place your site on the correct page in the search results - I believe it is.
There is a concept called Projected Page Rank, and there is a website that has a tool to attempt to create this. How accurate is it? Well from what I can tell in some cases it can be, in others it’s not.
Here is the site to try out :
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction
Note - for this tools to work you need a minumum of 100 backlinks to start - so not so good for those startup sites.
Patience is required for any backlink tactics - especially to get page rank updates.
My next challenge is to find a tool that tells us what page our site sits on in a Google search. So far I’ve found a few that claim to gather this but none have worked yet. I might even create one myself. Wouldn’t it be nice for Google to give us some easier to read statistics? Google used to (not after December 2006) provide a Google API Key that allowed some more interrogation of your search rankings. The API Key went along with the now obsolete Google Search API.
Check out this site for Page Rankings (minus Google) : http://www.googlerankings.com
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Overlinking Example
I find this quite funny and hope you will too. In my constant quest for banklink juice and the best tactics I stumbled upon a blog dedicated to this topic. The site is titled Get More Visitors - which is a good name for sure. The content doesn’t look that bad either. Check out the site here : http://getmorevisitors.blogspot.com/
So you would think that the author might use his tactics to his advantage to increase his Google page rank right? We’ll I used the SEO for Firefox plugin and looked up the stats on the site :
Classic example of Overlinking
This site has a Google Page Rank of 0 - because it obviously has used some major backlink directory submissions. See how there are 155 Million Yahoo backlinks! Amazing! The number of Edu and Gov backlinks are huge too!.
Putting this into a Google search : link:http://getmorevisitors.blogspot.com/ returned only 1 backlink for Google.
This is a classic example of a backlink tactic gone wrong and I’m not sure if the site will ever rank well in Google because of it.
Missing link: results in a Google Search
Do you have a site that you’ve indexed using a sitemap with the Google WebMaster Tools and the Google bots have come and trawled you site but when you put link:yousite.com into Google search you never get back the same amount?
Well don’t fret - Google purposefully only shows about 10% of the link: pages in the search. On top of that they only show Backlinks with a Page Rank of 4 (PR4).
If your site has been trawled by Yahoo - go over there and you’ll see all the backlinks - they don’t hide them.
I’m sure the index that google has of all the backlinks is still used to ultimately create your Page Rank - so don’t feel too disheartened.
I hope this little piece of information takes some of the confusion and stress out of all your hard backlink creation tactics!
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