I got the PageRank blues

[kwan]

I registered 2 domains about 2 months ago. One I installed a blog script and forgot about. The other I've been working hard doing everything right: good content, no keyword spamming, no link exchange, bla bla bla.

The one I'm working on finally got indexed but no pagerank. The one I forgot about I just found out has about 30 viagra spam comments and 1 blog entry that says "This is a blog example" and that site now has 20 pages indexed and a PR 3!

Is Google just stupid or are they just stupid? _\|/_

 

[gmtfan]

what are they?

It's not easy to tell who is stupid if you don't tell your domains

 

[ApeXX]

I registered 2 domains about 2 months ago. One I installed a blog script and forgot about. The other I've been working hard doing everything right: good content, no keyword spamming, no link exchange, bla bla bla.

The one I'm working on finally got indexed but no pagerank. The one I forgot about I just found out has about 30 viagra spam comments and 1 blog entry that says "This is a blog example" and that site now has 20 pages indexed and a PR 3!

Is Google just stupid or are they just stupid? _\|/_

There are many factors that contribute to a pages PR value. If you posted the URL's to the two websites, maybe we could help you assess the strengths and weaknesses of your SEO.

Good luck,

Mike

 

[lpstong]

Sometimes if the domain itself has a keyword in it than many spammers will take the domain back to a forum and post it. Hence giving it a backlink. I have over 40+ blogs. Some that I am more active on blogging than others. And this has happen on a few of mine. It is quite common. IF a keyword is not in the domain, than somewhere in a blog post that was found. So I am sure you got some kind of traffic and or backlinks because of this.

Sometimes there is more than just the name in the domain but also what kind of content you keep on the site. I had a blog with a domain that had useless overture, yet when I went back to it to check up on it after a non caring 2 months of not blogging on it. I had over 2k worth of comments.

Again a domain name isnt everything but what kind of content you put on it. Blogging is a hot item at the moment. And with all the imbedded links and keywords that are put in blog post can and will bring in a small to large amount of traffic.

 

[kwan]

I know it wasn't just a coincidence and there is always a logic to PR and indexing. I was just ranting.

My point is that there are so many factors involved like ApeXX said, that it is almost impossible to create PR. At the most you can try to influence it by getting back links, etc.

Google has said all along webmasters should stop waisting their time focusing on getting PR. If you have content people think is interesting, the PR and with it traffic will follow. I'm starting to think they have a point there.

 

[lpstong]

Google has said all along webmasters should stop waisting their time focusing on getting PR. If you have content people think is interesting, the PR and with it traffic will follow. I'm starting to think they have a point there.

This may true to a point. But I have seen sites such as John Shoemoney who is a SEO, Adwords/Adsense etc expert and gets a slew of traffic and still gets a PR6, has been that way for several updates.

Matt Cutt who is a Google engineer has had PR6 for several updates. But this time around he got a PR7 and I think it was due to the fact that he announced what Google wants to do with webmasters paid links . That was such a hype and drove in mega thousands of traffic. His site is good info for PR info.

John Chow is another example, great blogger and a slew of traffic but still a PR6.

And last but to say the least, Will Wheaton the actor who has been blogging for a very long time. Barely hit a PR7 this time around.(I only follow the blog, cause I am a Star Trek fan)

 

[Amnezia]

This may true to a point. But I have seen sites such as John Shoemoney who is a SEO, Adwords/Adsense etc expert and gets a slew of traffic and still gets a PR6, has been that way for several updates.

Matt Cutt who is a Google engineer has had PR6 for several updates. But this time around he got a PR7 and I think it was due to the fact that he announced what Google wants to do with webmasters paid links . That was such a hype and drove in mega thousands of traffic. His site is good info for PR info.

John Chow is another example, great blogger and a slew of traffic but still a PR6.

And last but to say the least, Will Wheaton the actor who has been blogging for a very long time. Barely hit a PR7 this time around.(I only follow the blog, cause I am a Star Trek fan)

who the hell is john shoemoney? is that Jeremy Schoemaker's long lost brother?

 

[lpstong]

who the hell is john shoemoney? is that Jeremy Schoemaker's long lost brother?

ROFL. Ok it's is his evil twin(did you see the pic of him on his blog licking the tower of chocolate from his wifes party). But I meant Jeremy. My apologies.

 

[uttoransen]

well

Matt Cutt who is a Google engineer has had PR6 for several updates. But this time around he got a PR7 and I think it was due to the fact that he announced what Google wants to do with

perhaps because matt cutts blog was highly talked arround and got huge link bait, that's why it got a higher pr!

i know google's algo is a bit tough to predice, but then i agree with the thread opener, that some times it looks very stupid! i have never expected a blog of mine with just a few posts to get pr3, and another which i worked hard for unique content etc is still 0, perhaps google should work on there algorithm :imho:

 

[john's TLD Domain]

do you trash the spam. if your getting feeds from really great sites then that might be a reason have you updated the content of your website. you should have at least a pr 1.
or it might be that your website got flagged for the Google sandbox. I just got a PR 4 for my site. and I'm about 6 months into it. most pages have a PR 3 or a PR 2. it takes about at least 3 months to get out of the sandbox. it might just be that some how your other site got lucky for some reason.