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Hi

I have been checking my blog Best Pet Jobs on a page rank checker site - Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages and it comes up every day as a 0.

I have been getting a few hits from searches, and when I type key words into google, my site comes up around page 3 to 4.

I don't really understand the whole PR thing, and would like to know why it shows as a 0 when my site is showing in searches?

thanks in advance,
Angela
  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    PageRank is a score that Google gives websites to rank their importance on the web. The scores range from 0 to 10. Being indexed in Google does not mean that your site's importance goes up. It's importance is gauged by how many other sites link to you, under the assumption that if people are linking, you must be important.

    Here's some useless info about PageRank...

    It was named after Larry Page, who invented the algorithm.

    The patent is owned by Stanford University, not Google. Google licenses the patent. They paid 1.8 million shares for the license, which Stanford later sold for $336 million.
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    • Profile picture of the author infomaniacs
      Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

      PageRank is a score that Google gives websites to rank their importance on the web. The scores range from 0 to 10. Being indexed in Google does not mean that your site's importance goes up.

      Here's some useless info about PageRank...

      It was named after Larry Page, who invented the algorithm.

      The patent is owned by Stanford University, not Google. Google licenses the patent. Thye paid 1.8 million shares for the license, which Stanford later sold for $336 million.
      ah, ok, so it is nothing to do with where your site comes up in searches? I had totally the wrong idea :rolleyes:
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  • Profile picture of the author TolyZ
    Yeah, you can be on page 1 with PR-0.
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  • Profile picture of the author harchenko
    That's about the factors influencing the ranking of sites in Google:
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  • Profile picture of the author addison.agnote
    Is it true that site's PR is just a decoy? Please tell me that information is wrong. I've got a PR 3 blog site.
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  • Profile picture of the author terryd
    I've said it a hundred times before "I couldn't care less about PR".....

    Back in the day it used to be all the rage to see how far up on the PR scale you could get your site and I guess for some it still is.

    For me, couldn't care less, I care more about the traffic I get. I think the highest PR site I have is a PR2 and I only know that because I just checked as it's one of my oldest and best adsense money makers....

    Go after a high PR if you want, it's not going to do you any harm and I guess if you get a good enough PR then you can start selling links for some extra income....
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    • Profile picture of the author infomaniacs
      Originally Posted by terryd View Post

      I've said it a hundred times before "I couldn't care less about PR".....

      Back in the day it used to be all the rage to see how far up on the PR scale you could get your site and I guess for some it still is.

      For me, couldn't care less, I care more about the traffic I get. I think the highest PR site I have is a PR2 and I only know that because I just checked as it's one of my oldest and best adsense money makers....

      Go after a high PR if you want, it's not going to do you any harm and I guess if you get a good enough PR then you can start selling links for some extra income....
      thanks for that, that makes me feel better as I get a good amount of traffic, but couldn't work out the link between traffic/google searches and PR
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  • Profile picture of the author seoguru1
    PR of a domain is only valuable to the outgoing links on the page. PR will play no effect on your rankings.

    If you have a high PR domain/page and you link to an internal page or external page, you are giving powerful link value to the page your pointing to and will likely increase the rankings of the page you are backlinking.

    If you have a link coming in from a high PR page, you are likely to see ranking increases because you are getting a backlink from a high PR page.

    You can increase your pages PR by getting backlinks. X amount of PRX links will equal and establish PRX to the page the backlink are pointing to. For example, if you have a PR0 page and want to increase the PR you need backlinks. If you get 100 PR0 backlinks, your page might turn into a PR1. If you get 1 PR6 backlink, you might get a PR3, PR4 and if your luckly a PR5.

    In either case a PR0 and PR10 link will increase your rankings to some degree. The higher the PR the more likely you will see bigger increases in rankings. You need more PR0 links to increase rank and less of the PR4, PR5 and up links to increase rank. The more high PR links you get the faster you will climb rank and depending on what mixture of backlinks PR you have will determine your pages PR. Your pages PR will only have an effect on who you link to and will play no part in the search engines rankings for the keyword you are trying to rank for
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  • Profile picture of the author WilliamBLee
    I think you don't have enough back links or you didn't follow google guide lines.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Why should you care? You only care about the PR of other sites liking to you. Keep your eyes on that and eventually your own PR builds up.
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  • Profile picture of the author umrbd
    the PR of the blog have nothing to do with rankings it is a pretty useless factors and Google wants us to take it as a important factor by creating some PR hypes but don't take it seriously.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amod Oke
    2 things never change. This is what I do...

    1) Original Content and
    2) Regular Backlinking

    Period
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    • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
      Originally Posted by Amod Oke View Post

      2 things never change. This is what I do...

      1) Original Content and
      2) Regular Backlinking

      Period

      I totally agree with Amod
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  • Profile picture of the author OrganicServices
    PR is criterion of credibility that can be achieve by Link Popularity, Unique content, users visits, trusted domain, on page optimization etc etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author MTLSEO
    People just put to much importance on PR...even Google is advising not to be obsessed with it as it's not that important in ranking factors as it was...
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    • Profile picture of the author OrganicServices
      Originally Posted by MTLSEO View Post

      People just put to much importance on PR...even Google is advising not to be obsessed with it as it's not that important in ranking factors as it was...
      It is true but reputation in also make lot. It will make an impression about site or forum so we must also bothered about it also.
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