Comments on: Google PageRank Update in Progress! http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm Learn How to Build and Market Niche Websites Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:32:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: James Mann http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14223 James Mann Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:59:45 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14223 I have been waiting for the new PageRank update, mostly because I expected my sites would increase in PR but I was slapped down instead. Not sure what happened but I guess I need to rethink a few things before Google puts my PR into the negatives.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14223','James Mann'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14223','James Mann','I have been waiting for the new PageRank update, mostly because I expected my sites would increase in PR but I was slapped down instead.\r\n\r\nNot sure what happened but I guess I need to rethink a few things before Google puts my PR into the negatives.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I have been waiting for the new PageRank update, mostly because I expected my sites would increase in PR but I was slapped down instead.

Not sure what happened but I guess I need to rethink a few things before Google puts my PR into the negatives.

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]]> By: Alice http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14211 Alice Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:10:45 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14211 @Bill, that's what I did, and the ? kept reappearing! But now that some time has passed, I got a 3 where the ? had been. Yay! I'd read somewhere that if you over-use the rank check tools Google can cut you off. Maybe that's what happened. Oh well, I'm happy now! @Mark, I agree that things like earnings are more important than page rank, but I'm thinking of PR as more of an indicator that G might be about to squash a site. Maybe that's not how it works though, I really don't know. If your sites continue to be low- or no-ranked, isn't it more likely that G will de-index them? But its funny how many money-making, high traffic sites have low ranks. I have one that amazes me. Its ranked 0, although at one time it had been ranked a 2. Lots of traffic and makes good money. I worry that in spite of this being a successful site from my perspective and from the many buyers who've shopped there, G will decide they know better and decide to de-index it or something. I've regularly added content to it, although I haven't converted it to a WP/BANS site yet. I don't know what the problem is!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14211','Alice'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14211','Alice','@Bill, that\'s what I did, and the ? kept reappearing! But now that some time has passed, I got a 3 where the ? had been. Yay! I\'d read somewhere that if you over-use the rank check tools Google can cut you off. Maybe that\'s what happened. Oh well, I\'m happy now!\r\n\r\n@Mark, I agree that things like earnings are more important than page rank, but I\'m thinking of PR as more of an indicator that G might be about to squash a site. Maybe that\'s not how it works though, I really don\'t know. If your sites continue to be low- or no-ranked, isn\'t it more likely that G will de-index them? \r\n\r\nBut its funny how many money-making, high traffic sites have low ranks. I have one that amazes me. Its ranked 0, although at one time it had been ranked a 2. Lots of traffic and makes good money. I worry that in spite of this being a successful site from my perspective and from the many buyers who\'ve shopped there, G will decide they know better and decide to de-index it or something. I\'ve regularly added content to it, although I haven\'t converted it to a WP\/BANS site yet. I don\'t know what the problem is!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Bill, that’s what I did, and the ? kept reappearing! But now that some time has passed, I got a 3 where the ? had been. Yay! I’d read somewhere that if you over-use the rank check tools Google can cut you off. Maybe that’s what happened. Oh well, I’m happy now!

@Mark, I agree that things like earnings are more important than page rank, but I’m thinking of PR as more of an indicator that G might be about to squash a site. Maybe that’s not how it works though, I really don’t know. If your sites continue to be low- or no-ranked, isn’t it more likely that G will de-index them?

But its funny how many money-making, high traffic sites have low ranks. I have one that amazes me. Its ranked 0, although at one time it had been ranked a 2. Lots of traffic and makes good money. I worry that in spite of this being a successful site from my perspective and from the many buyers who’ve shopped there, G will decide they know better and decide to de-index it or something. I’ve regularly added content to it, although I haven’t converted it to a WP/BANS site yet. I don’t know what the problem is!

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14209 Mark Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:44:01 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14209 @ Alice - There are really only a few numbers I EVER pay attention to, the rest are just "Indicators" that I look at. PR is a great "At a glance" number to know how Google sees your site, but dont ever place much value on it! The bottom line are pageviews, visitors, and earnings. Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14209','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14209','Mark','@ Alice - \r\n\r\nThere are really only a few numbers I EVER pay attention to, the rest are just \"Indicators\" that I look at.\r\n\r\nPR is a great \"At a glance\" number to know how Google sees your site, but dont ever place much value on it!\r\n\r\nThe bottom line are pageviews, visitors, and earnings.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Alice –

There are really only a few numbers I EVER pay attention to, the rest are just “Indicators” that I look at.

PR is a great “At a glance” number to know how Google sees your site, but dont ever place much value on it!

The bottom line are pageviews, visitors, and earnings.

Mark

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]]> By: Bill http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14207 Bill Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:25:42 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14207 Take your cursor and click on the ? All will be revealed.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14207','Bill'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14207','Bill','Take your cursor and click on the ?\r\n\r\nAll will be revealed.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Take your cursor and click on the ?

All will be revealed.

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]]> By: Alice http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14206 Alice Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:19:19 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14206 I don't know what to believe. I have SeoQuake's toolbar. Yesterday it told me my blog-only site was ranked 3 (which I was excited about because the site is pretty new). Today all I have showing is a ? instead of a rank. I know Mark said not to get too hung up the numbers, but with all this jumping around it's hard to know whether any progress is being made. If higher page rank supposedly brings more traffic, than obviously the numbers are important. That's the whole point of SEO. I'm puzzled about how I can go from a 0 to a 3 to a ? in 24 hours...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14206','Alice'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14206','Alice','I don\'t know what to believe. I have SeoQuake\'s toolbar. Yesterday it told me my blog-only site was ranked 3 (which I was excited about because the site is pretty new). Today all I have showing is a ? instead of a rank. \r\n\r\nI know Mark said not to get too hung up the numbers, but with all this jumping around it\'s hard to know whether any progress is being made. If higher page rank supposedly brings more traffic, than obviously the numbers are important. That\'s the whole point of SEO. \r\n\r\nI\'m puzzled about how I can go from a 0 to a 3 to a ? in 24 hours...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I don’t know what to believe. I have SeoQuake’s toolbar. Yesterday it told me my blog-only site was ranked 3 (which I was excited about because the site is pretty new). Today all I have showing is a ? instead of a rank.

I know Mark said not to get too hung up the numbers, but with all this jumping around it’s hard to know whether any progress is being made. If higher page rank supposedly brings more traffic, than obviously the numbers are important. That’s the whole point of SEO.

I’m puzzled about how I can go from a 0 to a 3 to a ? in 24 hours…

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]]> By: JeffLeft http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14203 JeffLeft Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:59:55 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14203 just FYI, i through up a personal blog August 24th. It's just a blog using WordPress, no BANS or anything.. it made a PR1 already. All the talk abut using WP to build the site THEN applying BANS sure seems to be the way to go! Google shows about 240 pages indexed!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14203','JeffLeft'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14203','JeffLeft','just FYI, i through up a personal blog August 24th. It\'s just a blog using WordPress, no BANS or anything.. it made a PR1 already. All the talk abut using WP to build the site THEN applying BANS sure seems to be the way to go!\r\n\r\nGoogle shows about 240 pages indexed!'); return false;">Quote</a></div> just FYI, i through up a personal blog August 24th. It’s just a blog using WordPress, no BANS or anything.. it made a PR1 already. All the talk abut using WP to build the site THEN applying BANS sure seems to be the way to go!

Google shows about 240 pages indexed!

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14200 Mark Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:24:56 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14200 @ Steven - NONE of my WordPress/BANS sites have been deindexed, although one of them was already dropped before I made the switch on it. Just a thought though... even if you have a WP site with BANS in a folder, if you do not provide compelling and unique content, it will ultimately end with the same result. Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14200','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14200','Mark','@ Steven -\r\n\r\nNONE of my WordPress\/BANS sites have been deindexed, although one of them was already dropped before I made the switch on it.\r\n\r\nJust a thought though... even if you have a WP site with BANS in a folder, if you do not provide compelling and unique content, it will ultimately end with the same result.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ Steven -

NONE of my WordPress/BANS sites have been deindexed, although one of them was already dropped before I made the switch on it.

Just a thought though… even if you have a WP site with BANS in a folder, if you do not provide compelling and unique content, it will ultimately end with the same result.

Mark

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]]> By: Steven http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14199 Steven Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:51:22 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14199 For those of you that integrated the WP blog/BANS. Have you been able to avoid the mass google de indexing?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14199','Steven'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14199','Steven','For those of you that integrated the WP blog\/BANS.\r\n\r\nHave you been able to avoid the mass google de indexing?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> For those of you that integrated the WP blog/BANS.

Have you been able to avoid the mass google de indexing?

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]]> By: Mark http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14197 Mark Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:35:14 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14197 @ David - the only reason I mentioned the domain name, is because a domain like "buy-this-modern-automobile.com" has much less value than something like hybridcar.com . If you like the name and want to keep it, I would probably remove BANS all together. Put a blog on the root of the domain and start blogging. After the site is back in the index, if you want to add BANS back in, you can do so then. The reason i suggest removing bans completely for the short term, is because it will reduce the duplicate content to 0%. If/when you do decide to add it back in the future, you can really focus on making each page unique, adding them slowly versus all at once. Mark<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14197','Mark'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14197','Mark','@ David -\r\n\r\nthe only reason I mentioned the domain name, is because a domain like \"buy-this-modern-automobile.com\" has much less value than something like hybridcar.com .\r\n\r\nIf you like the name and want to keep it, I would probably remove BANS all together. Put a blog on the root of the domain and start blogging. After the site is back in the index, if you want to add BANS back in, you can do so then.\r\n\r\nThe reason i suggest removing bans completely for the short term, is because it will reduce the duplicate content to 0%. If\/when you do decide to add it back in the future, you can really focus on making each page unique, adding them slowly versus all at once.\r\n\r\nMark'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @ David -

the only reason I mentioned the domain name, is because a domain like “buy-this-modern-automobile.com” has much less value than something like hybridcar.com .

If you like the name and want to keep it, I would probably remove BANS all together. Put a blog on the root of the domain and start blogging. After the site is back in the index, if you want to add BANS back in, you can do so then.

The reason i suggest removing bans completely for the short term, is because it will reduce the duplicate content to 0%. If/when you do decide to add it back in the future, you can really focus on making each page unique, adding them slowly versus all at once.

Mark

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]]> By: David http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14195 David Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:08:06 +0000 http://www.thenichestorebuilder.com/google-pagerank-update-in-progress.htm#comment-14195 Mark Thanks for your insight.. The domain name in question is one that I registered for 2 years. it has a BANS site... I really like this name as I feel it has potential.. This of course is my opinion.. What about if I went the BANS/WP route, giving it a time line of say 3 months, then if nothing happens just scrap it and register a similiar name.. Could I then transfer the content created from the old domain( BANS) onto the new domain ( BANS/WP) .Would this be duplicate content..?? Are domain names really that important? Thanks for your thoughts on this.... David<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('14195','David'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('14195','David','Mark\r\n\r\nThanks for your insight.. The domain name in question is one that I registered for 2 years. it has a BANS site... I really like this name as I feel it has potential.. \r\n\r\nThis of course is my opinion.. What about if I went the BANS\/WP route, giving it a time line of say 3 months, then if nothing happens just scrap it and register a similiar name..\r\n\r\nCould I then transfer the content created from the old domain( BANS) onto the new domain ( BANS\/WP) .Would this be duplicate content..??\r\n\r\nAre domain names really that important? \r\n\r\nThanks for your thoughts on this....\r\n\r\nDavid'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Mark

Thanks for your insight.. The domain name in question is one that I registered for 2 years. it has a BANS site… I really like this name as I feel it has potential..

This of course is my opinion.. What about if I went the BANS/WP route, giving it a time line of say 3 months, then if nothing happens just scrap it and register a similiar name..

Could I then transfer the content created from the old domain( BANS) onto the new domain ( BANS/WP) .Would this be duplicate content..??

Are domain names really that important?

Thanks for your thoughts on this….

David

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