Page Rank Advice

Styles UK · Jan 15, 2010

Hi
I have recently noticed that my website homepage has gone from being a page rank 3 to page rank 0

However my internal pages are still page ranked??
Can anyone help or advise me of what the problems is? We still seemed to be ranking well in the serps. I am unsure if I have been p[FONT='Verdana','sans-serif']enalized [/FONT]and have certainly no Idea as to why?
If anyone could try and help me shed some light on this situation please?

FireFleur · Jan 15, 2010

Well the PR that you can often see on the toolbar, the published PR, is a snapshot, so you may have updated the home page at the wrong time, and caused it to drop from the index at the time of PR publishing.

The actual PR is being calculated generally as the spider moves over the site, so the real PR is probably not zero.

It can be other things, but just unlucky timing probably.

Kelly Cairns · Jan 15, 2010

Hi

I wouldn't panic too much just yet.

Every now and again, google does a PR update, and the fact that your rankings have dropped is probably only temporary.

checke these steps first: check your search listings to see if you are still there for your keywords and look at your traffic logs. If these have not changed then it is likely that the PR drop to zero is a temporary problem or update happening atGoogle.

Check again in a couple of days and your page rankings will probably rise to where they were.

Webtistic · Jan 15, 2010

Pay no attention at all to the toolbar pagerank indicator.

Your rankings are the important part, and if you are still ranking well, then it is very unlikely a penalty of any kind exists.

If your rankings start dropping significantly, come back and let us know!

irishguru · Jan 16, 2010

Here is your answer:

http://tools.pingdom.com

1. Site loads too slow.
2. Need to optmize according to Google Page Speed tool.

That's all. Improve all that what Google want to see and it will change for the better.

Might I add the snapshot advice is good advice too and probably the most likely reason.

Personally my site load speed caused all my PR to be lost apart from hompage and now I have to wait until next PR update to gauge how well I'm doing :-(. I waited for the first one then screwed up my site load speed afterwards which is a bummer because I had my site wide PR.

Styles UK · Jan 16, 2010

Hi
Thank you all for your replies
I did have work done on my homepage at the start of Jan so maybe this could be the reason why.....

tomsk · Jan 16, 2010

irishguru said:
Here is your answer:

1. Site loads too slow.
2. Need to optmize according to Google Page Speed tool.

Whilst I agree google have made noises about page loading times, I disagree with irishguru that you could pinpoint the problem as confidently as that.

awebapart.com · Jan 16, 2010

Styles UK said:
Hi
I have recently noticed that my website homepage has gone from being a page rank 3 to page rank 0
However my internal pages are still page ranked??
Can anyone help or advise me of what the problems is?

It looks like google has indexed some of your pages with session ids in the urls, which may be confusing google, and google might have made the toolbar ranking snapshot at that very time it was confused. Investigate those 297 urls with session ids to see what's going on, try to ensure that no session ids appear in your urls, and for the current ones indexed, perhaps provide 301 redirects.

awebapart.com · Jan 16, 2010

Styles UK said:
I did have work done on my homepage at the start of Jan so maybe this could be the reason why.....

You also have quite a lot of external links going out from your home page, twitter, facebook, the links at the bottom... were these recently added in Jan?

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