Google must be mad. I have three blogs running. This one, My Radical Blogs. My second blog is Just 4 Families and my third blog is CoolAyla. Now those that regularly visit my blogs will know that I post at least once a day on the Radical Blogs site. The Just 4 Families site, well I probably post every three or four days. My CoolAyla site, well in three months I have made six posts – the last of them yesterday (just in case you have given up visiting for lack of content).
Now look at this. My Radical Blogs has an Alexa of around 170k. Has quite a few backlinks these days – I haven’t checked lately how many – but I do know it is quite a few. My Just 4 Families has an Alexa of around 340K with a quite a few back links as well. My CoolAyla site has hardly any back links, an Alexa of around 710k and very low visitor count – probably around 20 per day.
My Radical Blogs – PR zero. Just 4 Families – PR zero. CoolAyla – PR 3. Work that out. Only 6 posts that are not exactly great. Poor traffic. Poor linkage. Pretty darn good PR. Now I know I write paid posts although at present not for PPP on my just 4families and my radical blogs sites. I cannot argue with the zero PR there (well I can and do argue with the concept), however it really beats me how my CoolAyla site can get a PR of 3.
I don’t normally swear – but seriously – WTF are Google doing and how are they really ranking sites. I know in my own heart that there are plenty of 1 and 2 sites that are better than mine. In fact I am only playing with that site at present – I don’t view the blog or its content very seriously at all – hence the lack of postings. In fact I am still trying to work out what I really want to do with it. Perhaps I should get my post numbers up to 20 and apply for PPP. With a PR of 3 I would probably make a couple of bucks before I got canned.
Has any one else noticed some unusual rankings, particularly nothing sites like mine that are scoring well? I would love to know.
Ya, Google is nuts. Your blog is worth more than that, at least a 2 is justified. You’ve been doing a good job.
I have zero clue about what Google does these days. Frankly you’ll get drunk just trying to keep up. I firmly believe they change everything up about the time somebody figures them out. I think it’s intentional and they do it to stay ahead of the big bad boys and girls who may take undo advantage of knowing the google mystique…LOL
I’ve linked up to ya Les…but I just did so you can’t blame this on me…just yet anywho….LOL
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Poeple are dropping all over the place. Once I get paid for all my PPP posts I am dropping them to see what happens while I work on building up links from hell. I got my Link page up an dwill be adding to it, if anyone wants a free link and is willing to return it head on over to http://www.yourworldgallery.com
The last PR update I went from 0 to 3. This time I dropped a point. I’m actually glad because I thought I did something different in the last few days that messed me up!
At any rate all my other sites stayed the same except for the most popular one!
Keep your head up for the next update. I told myself I would be ready for the last one and didn’t take myself seriously. The next update I’m ready for (a PR 4)!
It is only PR. Learn to work the system and just make sure you work it on a regular basis.
More Google Page Rank Fiasco
I also have some experiences when Google suddenly kick my site out of their Rank. And it was two times in a row!
I have had the exact same experience. I have a site that I do nothing with and it gets no traffic and it got a 3, while my main site stays a 1. Who knows? I am going to worry less about pagerank and more about quality content.
First of all, get all that other stuff like how good a site is, how many posts it has, what the Alexa rank is, etc. right out of your thinking when it comes to PageRank. None of those things have anything at all to do with PR. The ONLY thing that affects PR is the PR of links that point to the page. That’s it. Nothing more (well, unless Google is playing one of its penalty games and fakes the PR to prove a point, but that’s a whole different kettle of fish). If you have a site that is PR0, and the links to it suggest it should be higher, then you may have a penalty, or it may just not have been updated to anything higher yet, but will eventually. All it takes is just one link to affect your PR. A page with just one link to it could be a PR6 (as an example), simply because the page that is linking to it has a very high PR and doesn’t link to many other pages. (The more pages it links to, the less PR it spreads to each). Hope that helps.
It is all very odd and mildly amusing that people get so obsessed about PR. It is only really important for monetised blogs.
That said, it must be frustrating when circumstances like this come up, which seems to happen regularly.
It is possible your URL was owned by a more established site previously.