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I gave a site a makeover about 4 months ago and the daily hits have been gradually rising - between 60 - 150 a day.
The site is showing fairly high in Google for its keywords but it still has a pagerank of 0. Is there any reason why the pagerank could be so low when the site is obviously performing?

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A few practical checks that haven't been covered explicitly here will help pin down why the visible PageRank value is zero even though the site is getting traffic.

, since you have both a .co.uk and a .com, confirm the two hosts are properly consolidated at the server level. If the .com is only framed, masked, or doing a meta refresh instead of a 301 server-side redirect, search engines will treat them as separate sites and signals won't be passed. A quick test:

curl -I http://yourdomain.com

You should see a 301 with Location: pointing to the .co.uk, and the final URL should return 200.

Also check canonicalization, indexing and crawl access. Make sure pages use rel="canonical" to the preferred host (if needed), that robots.txt or meta robots tags are not blocking indexing, and verify which host Google has indexed with a site:yourdomain.co.uk query. Verify all relevant properties in Google Search Console and review Coverage and Manual Actions for any issues.

Internal link structure matters too: the homepage and main category pages should receive internal links so any accumulated authority concentrates where you expect it. If backlinks point mostly at the .com and it isn’t redirected correctly, the link equity will remain split.

Finally, treat the public toolbar PageRank number as a single, lagging indicator. Focus on measurable outcomes that matter now: indexed pages, impressions/clicks in Search Console, organic sessions and conversions in analytics. After fixing redirects/canonicalization and resolving any crawl blocks, allow time for re-crawl and re-indexing. For background on the PageRank metric, see PageRank.

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What is your website domain age and it will in Google ranking position and most probably search engine will consider the domain age to provide PR and ranking position too and for that be concentrate on your off page optimization work to get back links and PR too.

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There are two domains for this site - the .com and the .co.uk.
The . is the main domain and this is only 6 months old. The .com domain points to the . domain and this has been registered since 2001.

Member Avatar for johnjames1985

google pr only updates twice a year, it could take another 6months before your pr increases

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That would account for it. I'll try and be patient. The rankings and traffic are fine so it should go up after the next update.
Many thanks folks for your replies.

Member Avatar for shayaristore

Page rank depends upon the number of backlinks and the quality of content of you site

Member Avatar for oclane

Getting PR is not that easy. Traffic is not the only thing that Google considers to give you a high PR. Relevancy, Unique Content and lots of Backlinks are also needed to have it.

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