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Does anyone know any good tools or resources I can look into to figure out why my Google PR is 0.  My site has been live for 2.5 years and was at least a 1 in the first year.  I then made the mistake of adding Text Link Ads which I think took it back down to 0.  I have since cleared out any text link adverstisements but still can't seem to get above 0.

 

I also know that my site is not completely being penalized because it still shows up for man targeted keywords.  I understand PR is not everything but it is becoming frustrating and driving me nuts trying to figure out where the problem is coming from.

 

Appreciate any help!

Thanks!

Thanks for the info.  Strange thing is that I have a couple other niche sites that have hardly any links and have been live for 2+ years and both have a PR = 1.  My main site has lots of links to it but no ranking.

 

Good luck to you.

I have a travel blog that rarely gets updated that has a PR of 2. My main site on the other hand… still PR 0. I'm still waiting for the google update. ;)

They used to do an update every quarter, and it was on a dependable schedule.  They've since changed that.  Or at least the rate at which they update the visible page rank.  The live pagerank actually updates in close to real time on their servers, but there is no way that I know of to check that, you can only check the visible PR which they update whenever they feel like.  And it doesn't seem like they update everybody at once anymore, but roll out a little at a time over several weeks.

The quality of backlinks is very important here. Many sites may be receiving hundreds to thousands of backlinks but if you've been researching the web, many people say that a link from a PR5 site is MUCH more influential than 1000s of links from PR1 sites. I believe this is the area we should be targeting. Early this year, a post of mine ended up on LifeHacker (PR8) and I also guest posted on Free Money Finance (PR6). At the same time I also added text link ads on the site. By the April 2010 PR update, my blog jumped to PR4. So you can see why it may be difficult to raise PR. It will definitely take a few mentions from mainstream media to attain PR5+.

 

I'd suggest writing interesting content and reaching out for guest posting opportunities on blogs with high PRs – as high as you can get them. Also, interlink your pages. In every new post, try to link back to an older post of yours.

justheather said:

I am dying for the next PR update. Over the summer, I managed to get a backlink from cnn.com – that just has to be worth something! I was dropped from 3 to 2 after I started accepting some text links, but I'm hoping the strong cnn link will bump me back up, even without removing them. My traffic has increased & my actual search placement has improved during the last 6 months. I just need Google to update it so advertisers will recognize it.

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I think you need a lot of high quality backlinks to survive with text links in the homepage. In-content textlinks seem to work out better, though. Heck, I have plenty of in-content text links that were put there for free ;)

Sure, but CNN was just one of several strong links I've been working to build this year. They are a PR10 – that just has to matter. The decision to sell text links was a tough one, but I went with it after I was already dropped for including guest author links on my sidebar – some of the writers of really great content work for your typical paid link sites and we got dinged. It's frustrating because my mozrank is 4.6 and our traffic has increased so much.

Regardless, I'm doing well with traffic & affiliates. I just hope they update soon and we get a bit of a bump – much more I can take advantage of at 3 or 4.

How would google know the difference between you putting up a "blogroll" or even helpful resources in your sidebar, versus selling links? Do they just penalize any links in the sidebar?

KNS Financial said:

How would google know the difference between you putting up a "blogroll" or even helpful resources in your sidebar, versus selling links? Do they just penalize any links in the sidebar?

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The folks at Google are among the smartest people on the planet.  I don't bet against their abilities on anything.

As for what they do and to whom, they don't talk much either.

I stopped selling text links three years ago.

I don't know why I went from a PR2 to a PR1 for several months, but I'm guessing it was for text links.  I also have no idea why I'm back to being a PR2 since I have more text links now.  Just a quick fyi that your PR1 could get worse if Google decides to penalize you and they will not tell you why about that either.

Crystal