Does It Mean Anything when Your Site Acquires a Page Rank?

[BlockO]

I've had a website for about 7 months now. my site is gradually climbing the SEO ladder but still has a long way to go. I'm just now cracking the 1st & 2nd page with a few of my keywords. I've noticed in the past week that my site has went from saying "no page rank available" to a score of zero out of 10.

is this a good or bad thing? does it have any significant meaning?

 

[dyadvisor]

If I am understanding this right, Google previously had PR NA, now Google has PR 0.

Do not go out and buy a trophy yet. There are over 15 million websites that Google does not even index (spider crawl).

Your PR 0 means Google is finally taking a look at your site. Often it takes 12 months - 18 months to get a PR1. It is 4 times as hard to move to PR2. Then to go from PR2 to PR3 about 6 times.

PR4 is even harder, as then you become an authority, meaning this will help your keywords get ranked.

There are fantastic sites 10 years old that have a PR 0. So do not worry to much as long as you are being indexed.

Your main concern should be traffic. The traffic rater is Alexa.com, with the lower the better. If your website has a traffic rating over 1,000,000 then you are only getting a nibble of what you should.

Keyword phrases that have no visitors are useless. Keyword phrases showing on the second page are next to useless.

If you do not understand SEO, that is okay. 90% of the people that say they do are dangerous.

 

[JesseP]

Doesn't mean much, because those ranks change every day

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

And some meaningless trivia....PR will not be the same for different pages of your website.

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[dyadvisor]

YOU BROUGHT UP AN EXCELLENT POINT.

Page Rank usually applies to the home page, where 98% of traffic typically arrives. It takes exceptionally good content pages that draw traffic to even get a PR1 or 2 on inner pages, let alone a 3.

This forum has a current Alexa rating of 55,067 which means a good high flow of traffic. Currently new sites that start getting traffic have an Alexa rating of over 25,000,000

 

[BlockO]

thanks for the help guys. I appreciate it. btw, how do I look up my alexa rating?

 

[dyadvisor]

I can give you some good ideas, no charge. Plus as an approved rater, I can give your site a 5 star rating on Alexa.com

Do not go out hiring SEO Gurus (pickpockets). Very little cash outlay is required. I have some free sources that would help.
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to look up your alexa rating

Go to alexa.com. At the search bar, enter into your domain info. Your traffic rank will appear.

Also copy down what word visitors are showing to reach your website. Next put the 10 keyword phrases your website is really about. From there, start adding proper page naming (critical) and info using your desired key words.

Hope this helps

 

[davidbri23]

i have been in insurance for 2 years and feel i should build a website intead of buying leads all the time. any suggestions?

 

[osmolia]

I have just set up a web site using wix.com. It is a DIY type site. My concern is, if building a website using one of these DIY type sites, can you still drive a significant amount of traffic to your site? When editing your site, there are no H1, H2, meta tags, anything like that. Can I still get a good ranking?

 

[pcwest]

From what I hear you can get decent traffic, but I've studied and took courses about this, and I decided to build my site from the ground up.

My site has been up for a year. I have 140+ pages on the site and my individual page rankings are going up each month.

Just remember Content is King and I am glad I took the longer road because I stand to be a player in the business for years to come.

Template sites was not my choice, but maybe it will work for you.