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My google PR recently dropped from 6 to 4 on my index page. Is this something to worry about or just the monthly google dance?
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Originally Posted by cscgal
My google PR recently dropped from 6 to 4 on my index page. Is this something to worry about or just the monthly google dance?
With a couple of my sites, I always notice a difference in the PR for 2 different versions of the index pages.
For example, http://forums.myispfinder.org/ has a PR of 5, but
http://forums.myispfinder.org/index.php only has a PR of 0!!!
Google treats www.domain.com and www.domain.com/index.html as completely different pages.
I thought I'd throw this out there, in case you were looking at a different version of your page!
One of my other sites (www.myispfinder.org) had a PR of 6 without the index.php, and a PR of 4 without it... just sounded like the same issue maybe.
If that's not the problem... a drop of 2 PR points can be very costly to overall traffic in my experience with google. But, on the other hand... google has been acting strangely lately... a couple of months ago, they lost all PR data, and were using a copy that was recorded months prior.... I'm a member at www.searchguild.com which is great for search engine info... it's where I keep up with all my google woes... :cry:
Hope this helps... the forums are great!!!
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Hey there! Thanks for all the help. I already know about the difference between / and /index.html
I'm sure that the drop in PR is at least, in part, related to the fact that I have recently switched from phpBB2 over to vBulletin, and therefore many old google-indexed URLs are broken.
However, my index.html page has never changed name, and I'm very worried about its low PR
To offset the inevitable drop in traffic, I am spending a bit more than my norm on ppc Overture and Google AdWords this month.
I'm sure that the drop in PR is at least, in part, related to the fact that I have recently switched from phpBB2 over to vBulletin, and therefore many old google-indexed URLs are broken.
However, my index.html page has never changed name, and I'm very worried about its low PR
To offset the inevitable drop in traffic, I am spending a bit more than my norm on ppc Overture and Google AdWords this month. Dani the Computer Science Gal
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Ooh, and one more thing. I think the google dance just finished, didn't it? At least that's what those guys over at www.webmasterworld.com are saying.
I no longer use subdomains due to the PR conflict with google. When I used to, I would always forward them server-side over to a subdirectory of the www domain, in hopes of avoiding the PR problem.
I no longer use subdomains due to the PR conflict with google. When I used to, I would always forward them server-side over to a subdirectory of the www domain, in hopes of avoiding the PR problem.
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btw, heads up on the searchguild.com link. I just checked it out and it seems I'm going to be a frequent visitor of that place!
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Just thought I'd tell you I don't think it's uncommon to have "irregular" PR. Mine is usually at 6, but not too long ago I stayed at 4 for one or two days.
By the way... What is PR good for anyways. I have a really crappy page rank at all the search engines. Can it be because my site is fairly new (put it up in June this year)? I'd love to have a better pagerank.
If someone knows anything about this, please tell me. If you've got lots of time on your hands, head over to my site too and tell me if you see something wrong!
By the way... What is PR good for anyways. I have a really crappy page rank at all the search engines. Can it be because my site is fairly new (put it up in June this year)? I'd love to have a better pagerank.
If someone knows anything about this, please tell me. If you've got lots of time on your hands, head over to my site too and tell me if you see something wrong!
webmaster at www.appsoftheweb.com
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PR is Google's ranking of how important/relavant a page is. It's ranked based on how many sites of similar content link to you, in addition to how many sites of similar content and HIGHER PR your page links out to.
PR is used in Google's ranking in search engines. For example, out of 2 pages that are equally relevant to a search query, the one with a PR of 7 will be shown 1st while the one with a PR of 1 or 2 will be shown way down on the search result page.
PR is used in Google's ranking in search engines. For example, out of 2 pages that are equally relevant to a search query, the one with a PR of 7 will be shown 1st while the one with a PR of 1 or 2 will be shown way down on the search result page.
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