I want a better Page Rank but how long will it take?

[termsandconditions]

Calling all SEO experts

From your experience, how long does it normally take from the launch of a new website under a new URL to be awarded a Page Rank greater than zero?

You may assume the following:

1. Site has been optimised reasonably well i.e. metatags and directory submissions and whatnot

2. Off-site marketing taking place i.e. inclusion of URL in brochures plus some limited offline marketing

3. 64 back links built in 2 months since launch and more to come.

4. Content marketing programme underway with article marketing

Google has indexed my site www.termsandconditions.co.uk (http://www.termsandconditions.co.uk) and some of my keyword phrases are beginning to appear high up in search rankings. But I still have a Page Rank of ZERO after two months.

Do I just continue what I'm doing and hope for the best? If so, how long do I wait?

Best Regards

[Toni Anicic]

I'm not sure if the Toolbar PR was updated in that period at all.

BTW. Toolbar PR is solely a product of amount of PR juice backlinks from other URLs passed to that specific URL.

[Andy Walpole]

It should change in a couple of months time when the next PageRank update takes place. The last one was on January 1.

[fisicx]

Who cares? Toolbar PR is a bit of fluff you can ignore. Turn off the Google spyware (AKA the toolbar) and surf the web like a normal person.

If the site is ranking well and you are getting the visitors who cares if you have a bit of green snot in your toolbar.

BTW, the site has NOT been well optimised.

[Danny@BFC]

Hi John,

its not a case of how long does a site have to be up to get Page Rank, its when google does its updates.

My site went live in October and stayed at PR0 untill google did its next update which was beginning of Jan this year, dont worry too much about it it sounds like you are doing the right things and when the update happens you will get some green in your bar!

I "think" the reality is that you may well already have the benefits of Page Rank, whatever they are....its just not visible yet as google hasnt updated it, my understanding is that whatever PR you see on a website only tells you what that sites PR was on the day google updated - it could have changed dramatically since but not show yet because google not updated...if that makes sense!

[zigojacko]

What they said ^

[termsandconditions]

BTW, the site has NOT been well optimised.

Oh Really? I have paid and am still paying good money for SEOing the site. Where are the holes?

[Mystro]

I went from 0-3 within the first 3 months of the site being launched..

[zigojacko]

Oh Really? I have paid and am still paying good money for SEOing the site. Where are the holes?

http://websitegrader.com/site/www.termsandconditions.co.uk/

[fisicx]

Oh Really? I have paid and am still paying good money for SEOing the site. Where are the holes?
Well your page titles need some work, there are multiple H1 and the ordered list uses H2 with a small font! Homepage copy is not focussed and on the other pages there is no logical information flow (relating titles, headers and content). Internal linking could be greatly improved and most of the inbound links are poor. What exactly has the SEO company been doing?

[Jason Hopkins]

You really shouldn't lose sleep over PR - concentrate on building links from related sites (ie finance and business) with variables of your keyword phrases as anchor text. It also helps if these links are from pages with more than PR0.

[Jason Hopkins]

I have to agree with fisicx! It looks like they have just submitted a few articles for you.