Hi All, Google is really starting to puzzle me. I rank first and second for quite a few keywords thats great! However on my main keyword I rank poorly on page 5 / 6 (used to be higher) What I don't understand is one of my competitors has a PR of 2 and no backlinks and shows on page 1 Really gets me puzzled
it depends on type on contents too. Page rank 2 blog must be having better contents. What is your page rank?
You're not alone... no one can understand how google works. That's why google is so succesfull! If someone figures it's algorithims, he can create a better search engine than theirs....
In my opinion, PR anyways have very insignificant role in serps so even if your site has better rank than 2, it is not the criteria to have you better position in serps...but I am surely surprised that your competitor is able to get good serps in spite of no back links! Would like to at least have your competitor's link to double check on your observation.. Regards, RightMan
No one can understand Big G Moreover that they change their algo frequently so hard to understand their algo. DON.
There are many factors that's why your competitor with low PR and low link popularity might get ahead of you. - If his site is new then it may have effected by a fresh content factor. This is a temporarily and not for long until he could built up more of his link. - If his site is very old and established and never dropped for 6+ years then his site got effected by domain age and trust factor. I have seen one website has only 1 backlink but ranked first page for very competitive keyword just because their domain has been 9 years old. No quality content on it of course. Your ranking will not stable unless you put some quality link spread through your site and do it regularly. Create some great free tools to attract link to your inner pages, etc.