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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.
 
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worlddom said:
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.
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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.
 
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john millington said:
Took 6 months for a our site to get its first page rank.
I thought page rank did matter?
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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.
 
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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?
 
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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.
 
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worlddom said:
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.
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You can say that again! ;)

My site gets about 15k uniques a month which i am happy with.
 
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Cheers is there any tool out there which i can use to identify these keywords? or is it best just to check your stats?
 
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wordtracker, keyworddiscovery, google trends (good for identifying emerging/popular sectors/products) and a few others. As you say also investigate your logs.
 
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Nice site, I especially like your image cropping.

I'd remove the links to enhancement of various parts of the body within your links page if I was you (hopefully they don't link back to you). Perhaps disallow this page from bots in your robots.txt.

Where is your revenue stream? or is it a purely for love site? adsense does well on automotive sites.
 
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I did sell illustrations through the site, which was earning me around 6k a year but had to stop as work was keeping me too busy and i got sick of working when i got home till gone midnight.

At the moment its there for the love of the cars. I have an escort cosworth and a series one rs turbo which i show.

At some point i will be getting back on top of it and start selling adverting on it again.
 
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Takes 5 mins to stick adsense on. I've got an autos site that gets a little more traffic than yours generating £10-£15/day with adsense alone
 
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Exciting!

My sites have done okay.....

Have seen about 5 of my sites go from 0 to 2. No high movers, no losses.

My graphic design blog did good considering its only been online a short while.

Have noticed again that people selling links in bulk havent faired too well....
 
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john millington said:
I did sell illustrations through the site, which was earning me around 6k a year but had to stop as work was keeping me too busy and i got sick of working when i got home till gone midnight.

At the moment its there for the love of the cars. I have an escort cosworth and a series one rs turbo which i show.

At some point i will be getting back on top of it and start selling adverting on it again.
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Wahoo!!! a fellow Cossie and Turbo man (well i use to before TWOCer's).

Anyway back to the thread, none of my sites have changed PR. But have noticed a larger amount traffic for the sites. Hopefully a positive sign.
 
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