Google Pagerank Update starting?

[XEC Internet Consultants]

For those of you who like to see how well they are doing in the google page rank green barnstakes, it appears that an update is beginning to happen.

I picked up on this at http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015921.html

Stephen.

[sabian1982]

PageRank? I thought it was called PointlessRank!

Interesting none the less despite page rank being essentially pointless! I've seen no changes as yet... these things tend to take quite a while to filter through properly; could be days more (even weeks).

[worlddom]

Yep, and there tends to be a time lag for UK sites.

Personally, I've never noticed any great impact on my positions within the SERPs with PR fluctuations and am of the same opinion as sabian. That said the little green bar generates about £1k/month for me (I know, tut tut), so I can't complain.

[XEC Internet Consultants]

Originally Posted by worlddom

Yep, and there tends to be a time lag for UK sites.

Personally, I've never noticed any great impact on my positions within the SERPs with PR fluctuations and am of the same opinion as sabian. That said the little green bar generates about £1k/month for me (I know, tut tut), so I can't complain.

Yes - I don't think it has a huge impact on position, however as you say it does give you the ability to market your site to potential advertisers etc if you do have a decent pagerank.

Stephen.

[john millington]

[quote=worlddom;395815]Yep, and there tends to be a time lag for UK sites.[quote]

Took 6 months for a our site to get its first page rank.
I thought page rank did matter?

[worlddom]

Originally Posted by john millington

Took 6 months for a our site to get its first page rank.
I thought page rank did matter?

Read the article that sabian has linked to. It is a very concise article about exactly what PageRank is/means. The importance that Google associates to your site is an ongoing factor calculated by incredibly complex algorithms, the PR tool is simply a visual snapshot taken every three months or so.

[john millington]

I though inbound links as well as a good optimised site are important, page rank quantifies inbound links so while page rank may not be important it is a good indicator of how many inbound links you have or am i missing the point?

[worlddom]

In theory some of what you say is correct, however there are many factors other than inbound links that G evaluates when associating importance. With regard to inbound links it is most definitely not the quantity of backlinks that you have to your site but more the quality and relevance of backlinks that is of importance (that said a quantity of quality links is what you are trying to achieve)

My opinion is that it is traffic that matters and more importantly traffic that is going to convert. There are plenty of low PR ranking sites that hit the top of the search engines for good keywords. A few of my sites have dropped in PR over the last few months however they have increased in ranking and traffic.

It's a complicated formula which only those who develop the algorithms understand completely (and even then it is flawed). The rest of use can only make educated guesses and undertake trial and error adjustments.

[john millington]

Originally Posted by worlddom

It's a complicated formula which only those who develop the algorithms understand completely (and even then it is flawed). The rest of use can only make educated guesses and undertake trial and error adjustments.

You can say that again!

My site gets about 15k uniques a month which i am happy with.

[worlddom]

Originally Posted by john millington

You can say that again!

My site gets about 15k uniques a month which i am happy with.

Good. Now identify more long tail keywords and aim for 30k/month