PLS HELP. PR Update Problem!

OK, I need to be calm before I go nuts. So this is what happened. I have this SeoQuake Firefox plugin installed, and it displays the PR of any sites I visit, among other things.

Yesterday I noticed the PR of my website http://mrdefinite.com suddenly went down from FR2 to PR1. I checked with several tools. Some says it has PR1 while some displays PR2.

For your information, I have been building backlinks and SEO and traffic and I had expected its PR to increase to maybe PR3 from PR2, but it went otherwise. But that doesn't matter.

My main concern is, when I checked between mrdefinite.com and www.mrdefinite.com using SeoQuare again, it gave me different results. mrdefinite.com has PR1 while www.mrdefinite.com has PR2.

Other online tools have given me different results.

This is very confusing. Can anyone confirm what the PR of my site is and if possible explain to me what happens?

Your help is very much appreciated! Thanks!

 

I will help with a little advice. Stop worrying about page rank as you have NO control over what Google does.

Instead work on content and SEO for building traffic. What would you rather have? PR3 or be ranked on page one of the search engines. Page rank does not bring you traffic - work on content, seo and build links.

Work on your site - the page rank will be what it will be.

 

THANK YOU swedal! You have enlightened me! I really appreciate it, yes, really.

 

BTW. Before I forgot, won't Gooogle PR affect SERP?

 

PR and SERPs are are loosely connected. Low PR pages can still do well in SERPs. Take a look at the SERPs for your keywords. You'll find that as you look at the results from #1 to #20 say, the PR goes up and down, i.e. it isn't automatically the highest PR pages that are at the top.

 

canonical or URL canonicalization, is what you are referring too.
You can and do get different PR for URL's with and without www.

Yes, PR does affect SERPs. Don't let people tell you it doesn't

Cheers
James

 

To avoid different PR for WWW and non-WWW, you can set 301 redirection to www Or you can also set preferred URL from your Google Webmaster tools. Also rather than to worry about PR, I would say to work to get more traffic and good SERP rank.

Kailash

 

I totally agree with Swedal, don't focus on PR.

 

ya i also agree;
when i was worried for my PR then i was having PR 1, when i started SEO for my site and forget PR then i get PR 4.

 

Don't focus on PR, keep working on link building, SEO and getting traffic. With that and a lot of patience, you will get what you are looking for.

Regards,
Azusa

 

Thank you thank you fellow Gurus! I really love this forum; people have been so supportive and positive!

 

Having a high PR does not necessarily mean that you are going to do well in serps.

 

create a .htaccess file (or if you already have one and if your host supports mod_rewrite add the following lines)

RewriteEngine On

rewritecond %{http_host} ^mrdefinite.com \.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mrdefinite.com \.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Code (markup):

\
if your host supporst mod_rewrite, you're pr discrepancies (well at least www.mrdefinite.com vs mrdefinitemrdefinite.com) will be solved with these lines. just put the file in your root dir.

 

If a high PR site and a low PR site started to compete for the same keyword, and with all things being equal on both pages (optimized), the high PR page will win.

It is wrong to assume that just because a site has a high PR it will rank well for every keyword.
It will however, rank well for its targeted keyword.


Cheers
James