Started my site on 9 June this year and just found out my first PR... 5!! It's good news but still don't seem to be getting so much google traffic. and the reason probably is i am not targeting the keywords as well as i should? i am getting about 20 google hits per day, which, to be honest, sucks! i am not expecting thousands, as the website is for a bit of a niche crowd but still... what do u think? www.brighterplace.com (live links arent available to me yet!)
You need to make sure that you have all of your keywords mentioned in your page title tag, description tag and in the content of your site, phrases like Barcelona accomodation would get you thousands of visitors!
How many backlinks do you have? PR5 seems a little strange for a site that is only getting 20 hits. Or maybe my site is as lame as I was worried about! best regards wiz
Thats cool, today iv had 4 of my sites that were PR0 go right to Pr5. Also a few that were on PR0 go to PR3 and 4 too I love google updates
20 does seem odd, right? thats what im thinking... so obviously, i gota be doing something seriously wrong... ive changed title tag today, added some keywords with <strong> tag on homepage, metatag descriptions, keywords etc... most images have got descriptive alt tags... we gotta work on h1 tags since we have site made by a graphic designer who loves css but other than that, we got content, we got PR... whats missing?!
Why not 1000s? Yours is quite good site. Students themselves are poor (mostly) but willing to learn a lot (means clicking advertisers, who are not poor). This site can have 1000s daily uniques, without any problems, after some 12 - 24 months being up. PR is nothing without traffic, I tried to explain it numerous times. Maybe new group about PageRank within Google fora would help. I am seriously about to create it, if nobody stops me (or does that quicker than me)...
you PR showed as Zero for me. hmmmm. Also I viewd with IE and the layout seemd all screwy. You might want to check that out see http://v03.browsershots.org/ Good luck
Are you expecting more traffic because you now got a PR5? Well don't because your PR has no effect on that. I have a PR2 site that probably out-performs many PR5-7 sites.
139 backlinks?? one of mine has liek 6 times that and its onlt PR4 lols oh well keep up the good work
my line of thought was.. i have a higher PR - hence, my site should come up in front of other lower PR sites when searching for certain keywords... hence.. more traffic? right? or obviously, there is something im not getting.... i guess i have low no. of backlinks but most of them are quality ones (talk about linkbaiting - a lot of my links are high PR webdesign galleries that they found and chose to link), hence the relatively high PR..
Can't blame you for thinking that way. Many seem to believe this myth that a higher PR means higher rankings hence higher traffic which is not true. A lower PageRank site can get tons more traffic than a higher pagerank site. PageRank has no effect on your rankings or traffic. PageRank IS effected by QUANTITY of backlinks so 10,000 link exchange links will increase your PageRank higher than 10 high quality, relevant highly targeted links while these 10 high quality links will do more for your rankings than the 10,000 links. Link Exchange links have been greatly discounted in value and link page links are even worth less than a link exchange between home page or quality content pages. I have a PR2 blog which I do no link building on so the PageRank will grow more slowly however this month I got more traffic than my PR6 business site which performs very well. If you have any other questions check my blog in my sig. I have a article on PageRank misconceptions.
hey congrats man, the first PR i ever received was a 3, this was mainly because i was a newb to webmastering and seo, 6 years later i can get pr 5,6,7 easily. It took me a while to learn everything, coding, designing, hosting and all the others. Anyways Congrats on your first PR 5.
my new site is my record... the first it received was 6... hehehe it doesn't show on google toolbar yet though since only a handful of datacenters have finished updating so.... it's going to be a looong wait
Today i am able to see my backlinks update in google which was previously 0, but still my PR 0 Google is very bad...