Anything wrong with the ranking?

[kippie]

I use this wonderful tool keyword and backling tracker but I have a question. The site www.deacademievoorinnovatieftrainen.nl gives a PageRanking of 5 in the tracker while it gives a 6 in the Google Toolbar. Is the ranking in the tool more five in the sense that it measures a 5.4 or something like that while the Google ranking gives a 6 to anything more than 5.0 or is there another explanation of the difference in ranking?

Kippie

[digitalpoint]

The tracker shows a PageRank of 6 for me when I add it... The only thing I can think of is that the PageRank went up for you, but the back links did not. PR and Pages In URL only update when the back links change.

- Shawn

[kippie]

Ok, thanks, got it.

Kippie

[compar]

The title of this thread is almost right for my question so I'm going to piggyback on it.

I have run the tracker 2 or 3 times this morning and it appears to finish fine. But the date on all my results is still April 15????????

Are the results being updated or not?

[digitalpoint]

Try clicking on one of the keywords manually (the link). If there is a problem with Google, it will return the error (for example if your key has hit it's daily limit).

- Shawn

[tsptom]

Curious. I have recently had a new competitor of sorts pop up this month. It's a brand new site. I checked his backlink/pagerank and I see he is already getting a higher rank than I am. My traffic rank through Alexa is much better, we both have no backlinks, I have 7 pages in URL vs. 1 for competitor. How would he be getting ranked a 3 and while I'm still a measly 1? :confused:

--------------------BL---PR---Pgs
www.*****.com----0----3----1---Apr 16, 2004
www.tsptalk.com----0----1----7---Apr 16, 2004

By the way, if it's cool to ask here, does anyone have a financial site that would like to swap a link, or sell me a spot on a good PR page? My main page seems to be flip flopping between a 1 and a 3, mostly 1 lately. I need backlink help.

Thanks!

[tsptom]

I finally saw some backlinks (13) on the backlink tracker yesterday, but the PR stayed at 1. Today my PR is 4 but backlinks are back to 0. :confused:

...and the Webrank still has me at 0, ever since I dropped my Overture account. (It used to be 3). I have since reinstated my account.

[tsptom]

I don't know if anyone is reading this thread, but I now have a PR4 (from 1) and 13 backlinks (from 0). Not much but I wanted to thank everyone here for your help. I was going nowhere fast without you. Now I am at least progressing. Thanks!

[IONWeb]

Congratulations Tom! I bet that is a great feeling to see it pay off eh?

The fluctuations you saw are from the latest updating I do believe. My site is also new (a little over a month) and it fluctuated almost hourly between 1 and 4. Since this weekend, it has been a solid PR4 so I assume it has stabilized. Only bad thing is - I only show 1 backlink :( I guess having a PR4 and google only showing 1 backlink is pretty good - maybe google likes the layout/kw/content in use?? But I still wonder why no other links are showing - when I know they are out there based on what I see in my stats program....

~MC
ION Web Design (http://www.ionwebdesign.com/)

[tsptom]

Thanks IONWeb. Your best advertising is going to be your website. It is such a nice looking design. I have a friend who just bought a domain name that he has waited months for to become available. Now he is getting ready to start a site. I will tell him about your service.

[IONWeb]

Thanks Tom - mighty kind of you :)

I guess I just have to work on word of mouth until I can get the SERPS up for people to find the site... more backlinks would help tremendously of course - just do not know why the ones I have are not showing up:confused:

BTW, hows the validation going?

~Michael
ION Web Design (http://www.ionwebdesign.com/)

[tsptom]

You are in much more competitve business than I am but I have had a lot of success with Google's AdWords. Just a thought to get things rolling for you.

I started to go through the validation but decided to wait for the weekend. I did add the <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> to my home page and it seems to be OK.

Thanks!