i have been actively obtaining links for one of my websites - from .gov and .ac.uk sites aswell as the normal directories and article techniques. my page rank has gone down from 4 to 3!! I was expecting to jump to 5 definately but alaas no - damn google! i have still maintained my 1st and 2nd postion in serps for my keywords which is good but i was wondering how could this happen??!
Just getting more backlinks is not everything. They are to be quality ones from related sites and those having good PR.
Google is only showing you with 22 backlinks. Without looking to see what the links are I would think PR3 would be about right. Some PR4 sites I have are at over 500 links.
like i said i have obtained one link from a .gov site pr6 and three from .ac.uk PR5 as well as good value directories etc.. How can that be! I was on pr 4 and since then i have got around 60 links - stressing the pr 6/5 .gov and .ac.uk links!!!!
Google doesn't show anywhere near all of your backlinks. One of my sites shows two in Google and over a 1000 in MSN and Yahoo. And I'll join the conspiracy theorists. My directory should have gone to a 5 and stayed at 3.
here here moncal! really hope this update has not finished. any ideas?? by the way i have submitted my sites to your directory - i like it!
You are right in saying google does not show up many of your backlinks - they only show a small proportion. This site has 250 mentions listed in google which is still not a lot and probably about right for PR3 with 22 links listed. The only thing to do is keep link building. All the links you have built will be helping but are just not showing in google yet.
sorry to maybe sound arrogant but i do not understand how my PR could drop from 4 to 3 with me link building? I understand google penalises sites through it serps but does it effect the given pr? like i said i have got good links so i am still in shock that it has gone down i suppose. Do you know whether the update is final or is it still going?
You ain't the only one confused... I had a partuclar DMOZ listed site that got PR4 and had no other link building. After realizing it got listed in the DMOZ then, and only then, did I start building links for it. I submitted it to around 500 directories and did some other promotion. It's still PR4. Doh! Another site of mine was a PR3 after the last toolbar export. Submitted that one to about 300 more directories, bought about $500 in links and paid directories, AND it got listed in the DMOZ. Expected PR6... it got a PR4. Ironically, two other sites of mine that I didn't even build but a couple pages of content for - and gets no traffic, and hasn't been promoted or had links built for... both got PR4. Crazy.
yeah i am baffled i literally made a blog around 2 months ago and didnt do any link building for it and it also has a pr3!! same as my site that i submitted to around 200-300 directories and obtained good quality links to, and now it went down froma pr4 to 3! Is this update over or is it continuing? Also this will not effect my serps will it? i am 1st and 2nd and am still there at the mo but am a litlle worried....
Here's some good reading for you: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=655672&postcount=553 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=656422&postcount=577 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=651527&postcount=203 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=656891&postcount=597 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=662539&postcount=739 And just for you, mdvaldosta: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=662989&postcount=749
I would wait at least a week before you start to worry about this. On one site I have had 770 backlinks for a while. The site dropped to 180 links the other day and today is going from 180 to 1800 depending on the datacenter you use. Nothing is clear until the update is completed really.
so i have to worry for atleast another week! yay!! well atleast my serps poosition has stayed the same -gulp!
Getting laid is like PR check this out: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=663332&postcount=138
I have a PR3 with 8800 links, the PR tool is complete garbage and dont trust or use it its irrelevant.
Funny, I've also got PR3 on a website that I expected at least PR5. 3 seems to be the magic number this update..