Hey this is definitely a noob Q. I searched the forums couldnt find a similar question. I was wondering why one of my sites would suddenly become a PR 0 ? Not sure what it was before, hadn't honestly checked. But yahoo inlinks say i've got 14,000 or so links going to it (http://www.twitbin.com) . Any idea what could be the reason for this? thx, Brian
I'm not a PR expert, but that site may be too new to get a PageRank. Then again, May was a few months ago, and I think the new update already happened, so I'm not sure.
Give it some time. Part of the Google algo is domain age. It trusts sites that are stable and around for a long time. I have a client with only about 1,000 inbound links, none of them with PR above 5 (most are PR 1 or PR 2), but their site has been up about 10 years and they have a PR of 5.
fastweb, is there a free tool for seeing the PR of the incoming links? i'd love to be able to export that to graphs in excel.
I remember someone linking to one here once, but I can't find it now. It's really not all that important though. Keep building your site, adding unique content and building your inventory of backlinks. If you use the Google webmaster tools, it will keep a pretty good count of the backlinks to your site. These are generally links from good neighborhoods or else Google wouldn't count them.
Don't worry about PR rank per se. Google does not send more traffic to higher ranking PR. This is a misconception. What really matters is being ranked higher for particular keywords. I know of plenty of sites with high PR but very little traffic because apparently google ranks them on small keywords. Other sites with low PR have higher traffic because google ranks them higher for good, targeted keywords. The best way to judge success is to look at traffic and not worry about PR. Google will eventually assign PR and with time it will increase. They don't change PR for a long time so if you get PR of 3 in 3 months, it will not be revised for a very long time in my experience. Looking at PR daily is of no use.
Since you still have some time for the next PR update, I advice you to get as much links back to your site as possible. You have little time left to increase the chance of your site getting a high PR.
Google likes a build up of links over time. If you make 14k links in 3 months, you might be link spamming, and most search engines will penalize you. I have a page specific to links and SEO on my blog. Check it out. http://emarketing-strategy.blogspot.com/2007/08/seo-checklist-links.html
well i have only linked to the site maybe 5 times myself. the other 13995 come from the blogosphere coverage of our tool, and also twitter.com links every post people make using our tool back to our domain. so we haven't been spamming, or putting the links out there (this signature is one of the few where i promote the site). i hope google isn't penalizing us for the exposure. right now we're getting about 12% of our traffic (according to goog analytics) from organic google traffic. 25% from twitter.com (see above) and the rest direct... i was primarily curious if our PR0 was negatively affecting our traffic... since we do come up in google under some terms.
Hopefully you will get pagerank value on the next update, and pagerank got nothing to do with the traffic you will get, so don't expect a huge post in your traffic after the page rank export, and keep on optimizing and building quality links.
14k links is a pretty good ammount of links to have. I would have thought you will get some pr this update or next
Results from iWebTool: http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction?domain=www.twitbin.com Domain name: www.twitbin.com Current PR: 0 Predicted: 4 (4.1) Accuracy: 73.5% Backlinks: 2,398
Concentrate on serp's, key words and anchor text. PR is a boy toy that no one outside the directory industry even knows about. Most insiders also recognise that its seen its day and will be replaced with something that cant be manipulated and abused the way it has been.