How Trustworthy is Google PageRank?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by wrigley99, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. #1
    Hi guys,

    Wondering if anyone can give me some feedback on their experiences with SEO and their site PageRank, we have been feverishly working on optimizing our commerce site : http://www.off2.com for the past few months and went live in the UK earlier this week.

    Weve been crawled by Google yesterday (i think!) and returned a Pagerank of 7. We previously had managed to get a PR4 with our static holding page through inbound links, optimization etc. Obviously we are very happy about a PR7 but I really want to know whether others have found that PR can sometimes be incorrect and adjusted by Google. I've checked over our inbound links to find some .edu sites which of course carry a lot of weight with their PR8's.

    Would love to hear the thoughts on any reversals or sudden changes others have seen.
     
    wrigley99, Jan 28, 2009 IP
  2. shailendra

    shailendra Peon

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    well my site got PR 3 within 3 months of launching it but in the next update it was cut off to PR 2
     
    shailendra, Jan 28, 2009 IP
  3. wrigley99

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    Weve had PR4 for some time, just seem to have had a large jump with our new content and some new inbound links, we were just surpised at the jump from 4 - 7 overnight to be honest
     
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  4. shailendra

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    can you tell me the date on which your site got PR 7???
     
    shailendra, Jan 28, 2009 IP
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    gr8liverpoolfan Notable Member

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    If any of your links disappear or lose their own pagerank, your pagerank could fall.
     
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    I have noticed that my site has changed from 3 to 1 in the last pagerank update. I think it had to do with the lack of new backlinks and new content.
     
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    Wow, great work on the page rank building. It looks like you don't have that much traffic to your site, so the backlinking will probably start paying dividends for you coming up in the future.
     
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    PR doesn't mean nothing nowdays.
     
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