Pagerank update?

alright I am confused, my brand new site that has been up for little less than a month is a pr3 (although it is my first site knowing more tricks of the trade) but acesoverqueens didnt change. Could it be that I recently updated almost everypage and changed the names of them (i.e blahblah to blah-blah) ??

[fatbill]

I show pagerank updates across most of my sites, and my blog moved up to a PR5.... ;-)

Originally posted by bbkicks213@Oct 20 2005, 09:58 AM
alright I am confused, my brand new site that has been up for little less than a month is a pr3 (although it is my first site knowing more tricks of the trade) but acesoverqueens didnt change. Could it be that I recently updated almost everypage and changed the names of them (i.e blahblah to blah-blah) ??

Yes, that would explain it. If you recently changed all your file names, then Google probably hasn't crawled or updated PR on those pages yet.

Age of site isn't a factor in calculating PR.

How often does google do this? Around when will be the next update? How much does PR affect on your search engine rankings

[mwack]

Okay... To your first question(s), Google updates toolbar PageRank approximately once a quarter. So the next update you'll see should be in about 3 months.

Secondly, PageRank effects your site's rankings incredibly, but the PageRank you and I can see (which is toolbar PageRank - PR3, PR4, etc) is simply an indicator to throw webmaster's a bone and allow people to see how much of an authority any given site may be. The PR that Google uses is not as simple as 1, 2, 3 - many different factors come into play for their algos.

Basically, that little green bar doesn't mean much. If you get more links to your site before the toolbar PR updates, Google will find out and rank you accordingly.

[the27offsuit.com]

Mine just got updated and am not to happy

one of them went from 1 to 3
the other from 0 to 2
but what im upset about is one went from 3 to 1

[AceKicker]

Originally posted by BuckeyeReport@Oct 20 2005, 06:55 AM
What the hell? My site has been up for almost 3-4 months and I have no page rank.... Im lost.

There's something wrong with your site. The front page is not indexed in Google. Basically, Google doesn't know you exist. Yet, you have plenty of links pointing to your site. For some reason, Google is not indexing your site. Your meta tags look a little strange. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. You don't have a description meta tag.

Your meta tags in your should look something like this:



State Poker Tournaments




Other than that, I don't see why you haven't been indexed by Google.The only other thing I can think of is that your site has been banned. But, I don't see anything on your site that would warrant a ban from Google.

It shouldn't take 4 months to get your site indexed when you have that many links pointing to you.

Strange indeed....

[PPP]

yeah, the ohiostate problem isn't with pagerank. It isn't indexed

http://www.google.com/search?q=ohiostatepoker.com


I suspect the problem is with the redirect from buckeyereport.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22ohiostatepoker.com%22
It is showing pagerank before it redirects.

[mwack]

The only "proper" way to link an old domain to a new one is to use a 301 redirect... checked your page source and saw that you had a coded "refresh" redirect. I highly suggest changing to the 302. Not positive if it'll solve your problem, but I remember reading about sites getting banned from Google for using poor redirects.

Other than that, check to see if you're linking to any sites that got banned from Google or something.

[ucladave]

I have a question - how can I tell where I am showing up in the search engines for various different search words?

For example, I am ranked for ucla poker, but cant see me for los angeles poker.

Also, I checked my PR number and apparantly I have a pr2. The bar looks low so I assume that is a bad thing. Any thoughts on how to get it higher? Right now google has only one link pointing at me so maybe that is one place to start. Although how long does it take google to find those new links from other sites?

www.uclapokerplayers.com

Thanks