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Squeeze page with Page Rank 3! ??

by Cosmo Demopoulos
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I'm shocked.
My squeeze page Secrets of Successful Blogging has page rank of 3.

It's just one page, and yes, I have gotten a little organic traffic too.
I do have links from 3 sites, plus have used article marketing to promote it, maybe 50 articles at ezinearticles and all the usual suspects. Nothing special in other words.

Is this as strange as I think or somewhat normal?
#page #rank #squeeze
  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    It's not strange at all - why would you think it is?

    I've had squeeze pages with PR6 from article marketing alone.
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    nothing to see here.

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  • Profile picture of the author AndrewHansen
    Ted,

    It's not abnormal. If you get enough links from other sites with PR, you'll get you some PR.

    Keep up the good work!

    Andrew
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  • Profile picture of the author Ashley Wright
    not strange at all, very good tbh especially if it is only article marketing mainly!
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  • Profile picture of the author Cosmo Demopoulos
    I'm surprised because it's just a one page site.

    Hey, If I can get it up to PR 5 or 6 maybe I'll sell ads on it
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    • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
      Originally Posted by Ted Demopoulos View Post

      I'm surprised because it's just a one page site.

      Hey, If I can get it up to PR 5 or 6 maybe I'll sell ads on it
      The number of pages is irrelevant - PR is about incoming links.

      PR also has nothing to do with traffic levels - so I'm not sure why you think you could sell ads on it just based on PR - anyone who paid just for that would be mad.
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      • Profile picture of the author Cosmo Demopoulos
        Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

        The number of pages is irrelevant - PR is about incoming links.

        PR also has nothing to do with traffic levels - so I'm not sure why you think you could sell ads on it just based on PR - anyone who paid just for that would be mad.
        I'm just joking about selling ads on it, BUT, I do sell a few thousand $ in ads a year and since most of them are text links, I'm basically selling links.

        Many people who buy ads from me don't care about traffic, just the PR/link juice.
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        • Profile picture of the author ptwain
          Great Job!!

          The highest page rank I ever got on a sales page was also a 3 but never got higher than that for a single page squeeze page.

          Keep up the good work!
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          • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
            Thats cool ...

            Im still trying to figure out how the guy who has the #1 spot for the main keyword Im after is doing it with a redirect!

            Good for you on your PR3 ... keep getting them backlinks. [ shameless plug ]
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      • Profile picture of the author matthewd
        Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

        The number of pages is irrelevant - PR is about incoming links.
        I would think it would be relevant because Google generally
        does not like 1 page sites.
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        • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
          Originally Posted by 4morereferrals View Post

          Im still trying to figure out how the guy who has the #1 spot for the main keyword Im after is doing it with a redirect!
          Cloaking... when googlebot comes around, I bet it serves up a different page with no redirect. To verify this, click on the cached version of the page, then quickly click on the 'text only version' link. This will show you what google thinks is on the page.
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          • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
            Bingo - Jason - nailed it. OLD PAGE from the late 90's - LOL

            How they hide that from google like that. crafty suckers - childs play to the masters I see.

            Lots to learn ...

            Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

            Cloaking... when googlebot comes around, I bet it serves up a different page with no redirect. To verify this, click on the cached version of the page, then quickly click on the 'text only version' link. This will show you what google thinks is on the page.
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          • Profile picture of the author blackhatzen
            Originally Posted by merlion87 View Post

            Thanks for the tip. It is interesting how some people get around the system. I know if I tried something like that I'd probably be found out.
            Cloaking isn't as hard as some might lead you to believe. You only need a little technical prowess, elbow grease, and patience. Some of us have been doing it effectively for over a decade now. However, cloaking and content generation are generally considered to be black hat and thus are disregarded by many in the industry. To each their own.
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      • Profile picture of the author thegamecat
        Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

        The number of pages is irrelevant - PR is about incoming links.

        PR also has nothing to do with traffic levels - so I'm not sure why you think you could sell ads on it just based on PR - anyone who paid just for that would be mad.
        Most link purchases are made to build up authority, same with paying for article space.
        Banners are on the other hand USUALLY bought for traffic purchases - but even this can be done for backlinks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Originally Posted by Ted Demopoulos View Post

    I'm shocked.
    My squeeze page Secrets of Successful Blogging has page rank of 3.

    It's just one page, and yes, I have gotten a little organic traffic too.
    I do have links from 3 sites, plus have used article marketing to promote it, maybe 50 articles at ezinearticles and all the usual suspects. Nothing special in other words.

    Is this as strange as I think or somewhat normal?
    Hi Ted this is normal...

    And also you said ....NOTHING SPECIAL!!!
    My friend it is special as you have taken action...
    and submitted 50 articles to EZ!!! PR is just little reward of those
    efforts :-)

    Also PR is not constant...it keep changing ...also sometime it does not
    make sense why some page get higher rank than other...even with
    same backlinks.... like
    this is interesting ... That my WarMarks site is pagerank 1, but one of little lucky page
    there got PR 4,
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    Now interesting part of this is that...i have not built any links to this page,
    I maybe have few link from my profile in Joomla Community or other web developer
    community...But I have way more than links to Homepage...which is still PR 1!!! :-)

    Well over the years i have learnt that PR is something which does not matter much...
    It is prospects, leads and conversions which can help me bank the money :-)

    Best Wishes and Keep up good work...
    as KEY to success is FOCUSED action!

    Best,
    Mohsin Rasool
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  • Profile picture of the author Cosmo Demopoulos
    I've run across a few cloaked (and very blackhat, as in they hacked in to other sites and added cloaked links that only Google sees) sites recently.

    What would worry me about cloaked sites is that Google has been directly visiting many of my sites in person lately, or at least that what I'm told a visit from "Google Webmaster Tools" means.

    On a peripherally related notes, it seems Google employees dig my SecurITyCerts dot Org site and I get lotsa visits from them.
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    • Profile picture of the author blackhatzen
      Originally Posted by Ted Demopoulos View Post

      I've run across a few cloaked (and very blackhat, as in they hacked in to other sites and added cloaked links that only Google sees) sites recently.

      What would worry me about cloaked sites is that Google has been directly visiting many of my sites in person lately, or at least that what I'm told a visit from "Google Webmaster Tools" means.
      I've seen some pretty advanced cloaking mechanisms that seem to compensate for these sorts of impromptu visits quite well. That said, cloaking is always a risk; some of us just enjoy that aspect, I suppose.
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      • Profile picture of the author Cosmo Demopoulos
        Very interesting -- when time permits I'll investigate further.

        I'm an infosec guy by background, so getting around/over/by anything interests me a lot. Both how people do it, and how I can do it when appropriate as well.

        Technical is no problem, although I'm probably 1% as technical as I was 10 years ago!
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