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Puzzling SEO page / site performance

by ronc0011
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OK I've got a site that I've been focusing most of my attention on Start a Real Career At Home and everything I can see about it says it has a ranking of "0". When I look at ranking for different keywords (individual post) it also shows "0". some of these keywords had apparently low competition and monthly search traffic. For instance "Marketing Resources" shows about 1000 searches / month and very low competition. SEOpressor scores the post at 93.33% with a keyword density of 1.47%. Still It shows a page rank of "0"


On the other hand I have put up a site for my little brother related to planking Crazy Planking , just do a Facebook search on "planking" if you're wondering what that is. The site isn't even finished, no backlinks, mostly just some pictures some SEO work on the main page and it was ranking "4" on Google (first page) in a couple of days. Now I know it's a very low search keyword (crazy planking) with "0" competition, but still It has me wondering if I'm missing something on my money site realhomebusiness.us. I mean this site is showing nothing nowhere. It has me considering just putting up a different site completely redesigned and completely different SEO structure.

NOTE: the site is my first site I seriously started working on and has undergone different changes and has had a couple of backlink campaigns done on it using Scrapebox. I may have flooded it with backlinks at some point though now it only shows about 65 and 63 of those are from posts I've made here on this forum.

Anyone have any thoughts on this, anything I might be missing or misreading?

BTW both of these sites are WP sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tony Marriott
    It seems you may be confusing PR (page rank - a score given to each web page by Google) with search rankings (the position a site comes in the search results for aparticular keyword). One has little to do with the other in this sense.

    Your first paragraph and comments on your site refer to page rank but your second paragraph about your brothers site refers to search ranking.

    If I understand you correctly then you are measuring apples and oranges, which would cause confusion before you even start.

    I think you need to compare the search engine rankings (search positions) of the sites for their primary keywords. This will allow you to make a better comparison. I'm pretty sure you will se that you rank more highly for the less competative keywords (not monthly searches) in most cases.

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    • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
      Thanks Tony,

      I think you are probably right about that. So now I'm wondering if there is a tool to help with that other than just going through Google's pages until I find my site. After all my site could be on page 10,023 or something for all I know. That's a lot of Google pages to sort through.

      Also it makes the results even more confusing. As I noted, my little brother's site has a Google PR of 4 According to Traffic Travis and a Yahoo PR of 8 and 9

      When I look at the Google keyword tool it shows 1000 searches / mo for "marketing resources" maybe 15% competition. When I look at "Crazy Planking" it shows 73 monthly searches (exact match) "0" competition.

      If I do a Google search for "crazy planking" it shows about 1,6,00 results.

      So I'm thinking to test what is going on I should try a post using some super obscure keyword and optimize the post, then see if it shows up on Google at all.

      I suppose that might tell me if the site has been sandboxed or whatever.
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      • Profile picture of the author Kerry Finch
        Ron
        My SEO Quake shows PR0 for both sites.

        To improve these you will need to build out the sites with quality, relevant and original content (text, video, audio, graphics) and employ traffic and link building strategies.

        On your site you are trying to rank for some very competitive keywords: career at home, ways to make money, online business, work from home. If you are looking to increase your results for these keywords then you will need to work really hard, and invest in paid SEO options as well.

        Not sure if you have a ping list installed, which will help - let me know if you need help with this.

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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    There are a lot of tools you can use to check your page's position in Google. Just search for "SERP checker" or something to that degree.
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  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    PageRank is smoke-and-mirrors. It has no real meaning in the Google search algorithms.

    One value that influences how you rank in Google is "link popularity", which is an internal value given to a page.

    PageRank is merely a reflection of one moment in the life of your web page, and it quantifies, your "link popularity" as a value between 0 and 10.

    PageRank is just a snapshot, and it has never had bearing on where you might rank in Google's search engine.

    Because Google uses more than 200 calculations to decide where your page might rank for any given keyword, it is hard to understand what the real ranking factors are in regards to Google.

    I have seen many examples where I have a #1 ranking in Google with a PageRank of from 0 to 4, and the pages listed after mine in Google have higher PageRank than my page.

    Don't get blinded by the smoke-and-mirrors.
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