Google PR

[Jeanco]

I'm not overly concerned about it, but rather just curious - how long does it take for google to give your site a PR? I'm thinking that my site may have a hard time getting one because of how dynamic the content is (adsense still has trouble deciding what type of ads to show).

Anyone have an idea on how long it takes google to PR your site? I'm thinking it should've happened by now and google is just having trouble with the dynamicness

 

[Chris_C]

There are a few factors that will affect this.

1) Is your site indexed and how deeply. If your site isn't yet indexed then it won't update it's PR. Dynamic urls will definitely affect this (use mod_rewrite), dynamic content I don't think is a problem. Google *likes* updated content.

2) What is the PR of the sites linking to yours? If you have a PR ~4+ linking you then you'll get indexed more quickly (because googlebots visit higher PR sites more often and higher PR means more clout to google).

After that, google updates it's backlinks somewhat randomly but usually somewhere around once per month or so. If you're lucky it you'll get in the first update, sometimes it takes a few. Paying some affiliates to link deeper pages in your site to get them indexed earlier will help out as well, you can just drop them once the site is fully indexed.

 

[Sharpy]

I assume your talking about epasture. You have 3 unique links. They are ranked nicely but have little to do with your content.

PageRank Explained

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

 

[Jeanco]

Thanks Sharpy and yes I'm walking about www.epasture.com

 

[Chris_C]

rewriting those dynamic urls is a good idea. Look into apache mod_rewrite to replace the content.php?content=contact.php&op=2

with something like: content/contact/2/

It's quite easy and still makes a big difference with the search engine.

 

[Jeanco]

I'm unfamiliar with this mod_rewrite thing... could you provide a link or a more thorough explanation? Thanks

 

[Chris_C]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/
http://www.modrewrite.com/

You'll find lots of resources on the web as well it's a very commonly used function. To get the most out of it you should also learn about regular expression syntax if you don't already understand it.

The basic idea is that when the apache server gets a request for a url it first checks the for the mod_rewrite engines presence and any rules that are defined (in .htaccess or .htconfig). If it finds one, internally it will deliver another url instead.

i.e. something like:
www.widget.com/a/b/c/

could be rewriten using some .htaccess rules:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^/a/b/c/$ index.php?var=a&var2=b&var3=c

With the result being that:
visitors and spiders believe they are visiting www.widget.com/a/b/c/ but internally the page actually being visited is widget.com/index.php?var=a&var2=b&var3=c

 

[Jeanco]

Thanks, I'm going to look into this when I get home from work