When will be the next gdpr update? This has been the longest data push in google history. My site PR has gone from PR5 to PR7 but I dont seem to see any major changes in SERPS. All I am doing now is adding tons of heavy PR links to get a force push which merely gives me a number up. Is GDPR dead? and SERPS change all day as said in matt cutts video
Because PR and Rankings aren't directly related. Stop adding 'heavy PR' just get good anchor text instead. You can jump from 20 to 1 with 20 PR0 links with good anchor text. Sto pwasting your time and money on PR.
adding to tops comments, getting "tons" of new links too quickly may also trip some unnatural linking filters and may incur penalties.
Good advice above, instead of looking at PR, look at content when grabbing links, is it on topic? etc.. if you link as though you were looking for traffic from the referring site, you'll have a better chance of improving rankings ~LadyH
Also, understand the fact that Pagerank is LIVE, your pagerank gets updated all the time, its just that the Google Toolbar update only happens once in a while. ++ T0PS3O's post as well. IT
++ all of the above. The Toolbar is not expected to be updated until at least early 2007 (January), although NOONE knows when they do their push (export) of data. It really doesn;t affect you much if any, so as was said above, focus on quatily RELEVANT sites and less on PR. Best; Eric
I agree with the anchor part + if those links are from relevant websites it will surely propel your rankings. Do some research on where the links to the top websites are coming from.. that might help u as well.
Site optimization and backlinks with good anchor text should help. Target specific keywords for your site.
we need some sort of mandatory thread you have to read with this stuff in it before you're allowed to post in the google forum even links from completely irrelevant sites help and can get you rankings even in very competitive fields as long as you're pointing the links to an old, never-sandboxed domain.
I've read the thread and felt that most people here just said something for the sake of saying something. There are no changes in serps despite adding 1) relevant links with good anchor text 2) high PR links with anchor 3) all the other possible combinations Many many relevant sites are pushed down in the results from top and held there for the last few months whereas sites with less links/content are brought to the top. the results are a mess. Google is not doing anything about it.
if you're adding relevant links with good anchor text, high PR links with anchor text, and quality links in general but not seeing changes in serps (or not showing up in the serps at all), chances are you're sandboxed.
I am not sandboxed, my site is 4 years old and used to be no. 2 before end of August for a year and a half. Other sites that have suffered at same time are even older including one that is hit by -31 penalty.
by four years old, do you mean the site has been in google for four years, or the domain is four years old? if you mean the latter, that doesn't mean a thing as far as the sandbox is concerned.
You are only going to rank in the serps when your site is out of the sandbox. One of my sites is targeted toward a somewhat competitive search term, (about 24,000 searchs a month) and only about 11 sites in the top 20 have a pr 5+, the rest are 4s and lower. I have a site that is 12 months old this month, that has a pr5 (and most likely will be a pr 6 the next update)plenty of content and has good seo, but can not even be found in the first 1000 results!!! Google literally has less quality sites with low pagerank and little links ranking higher than mine because of the sandbox! ...but if I use the allinanchor:, the site is usually #10 or 11 that's how I know this site is in the sandbox So it dosen't matter if a site has a pr5, 7, etc. if you're in the sandbox, pagerank is only useful once google lets your site out.
What has all this sandbox thing got to do with discussion? My website was in google since it was started and gradually made its way to the top of the serps so obviously it was good enough to be there, the same story with other 3 sites I'm talking about. Now we're in a situation where older sites with more content and more and better links are pushed down in the results to second, third, fourth page and practically not moving in past few months. Slight movement up is followed by a rollback. First page positions are taken by very very weak sites and this is what I find infuriating. This is not a question of competition, it's a major mess probably deliberately not being fixed by Google. See June 27 revisited thread, a lot of relevant information there
we're forced to take shots in the dark when all we have to go on is, "I have lots of great incoming links with the right anchor text and I'm not ranking !" the sandbox is one of them, and with people stating things similar to the above it's a real possibility. with particular urls and the serp's you're trying to rank for we could probably give more accurate insight. kinda hard without specifics. what you're describing is by no means universal though; I haven't had a problem ranking on any of my non-sandboxed domains. at all.
Thank you all for the feedback and views. There was no weather report for serps change for the past 365+ days. As the advices above, all you are seeing changes/increase in serps after a while you have done some seo on your site. And there will be no major GDPR updates in the future or if it does it will not change the results that much. My site doesn't seem to be sandboxed ;| ?? (How can I check my site is or isn't sandboxed).