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I was curious after reading quite a few posts regarding the Google Page Rank changes over the past few days how it may have affected YOUR Blogs, and whether you care or not.
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Joe
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The page rank on the site in my name link has gone up from page 7 or 8 on Google search result when I type in a search term and my cities names (I’m trying to get local business and compete against local competitors at least within the a certain search term). However I don’t know if Google changes did it or not. The pasts few weeks I have changed the title in my page to better reflect the search term I’m currently thinking people will use and I’ve been more mindful about using certain terms in my own blog posts as well as what I say in forum and blog postings elsewhere.
Hey Patrick,
If I look up my last name, I take up most of the first 10 pages, boy is my family irked! However, Page Rank has to do with “trust” and “authority”.
If the Great and Powerful Google thinks you are an authority in your given niche, then you must be and they rank your page higher.
Yes, before I was talking about my business web site but if I put my name into Google I am on every result on the first page except one and they are quite a few other people out their with my name but I have been on the Internet a while and in addition to my own web sites I participate on Sqiudoo, Flickr, Twitter, Amazon, Digg, etc.
see -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Patrick+Greer&btnG=Google+Search
One of the first entries – Dr. Greer’s Uru Journal is me although I’m not a doctor, that is a “character name” I used in the online Myst game – Uru.
Their is a real doctor in TN that is not me.
Both of my blogs went up in ranking. My healthy blog: http://www.WowYouAReReallylucky.com actually went up 2 points and the business side: http://www.CreateACashFlowShow.com went up one point. I am very focused on this. It took a year to get a 1 google ranking and then after only about 4 weeks both blogs jumped to higher levels. On most key words, I am now showing up on the first page of Google searches! I am very happy about this.
Hey Deb,
Good for you! I like hearing good news, it makes me feel much better knowing that readers are doing well.
My Ghillie Suit blog wasn’t up at that time, but I had another blog that was a PR4 slowly dwindle down to PR0. It took a period of 4 weeks, at first it stayed a 4, then went to 3, then 2 and eventually 0. All its posts are 0 also
Hey again Ghillie,
And I thought I had it bad going from a PR5 to a 4. Not to worry, even though my PR went down my Google searches have increased quite a bit. Don’t know what that means, but more people are finding me now than before.
And the buzz now is that the Big “G” is doing a new algo and redoing their PR’s. We’ll see what all that means pretty soon I guess.
Hi Joe, the good thing is that the blog’s income has stayed the same. I had a few advertisers for TLA pull out, but I got some to replace them right away. It hasn’t affected my traffic at all.
Hey Ghillie,
That’s a distinct advantage. I don’t know how this war between Google and TLA is going to go on because I depend on both of them. I just wish they would settle it, once and for all.
Google just did a PR update last week and my blog that used to be PR4 is still 0. However, the Ghillie blog went to PR2 from 0. It has no ads and gets 1/4 traffic of my other one. I’m sure my other blog has been permanently slapped.
Hey Ghillie,
It seems that “G” is redoing their algo once again this week. No idea what that means for us regular bloggers, but it seems the “A” listers and MSM sites have all regained their former ranking or better.
Maybe we have to send money to the big wigs at Google to get a decent PR?
One good thing is I seem to be getting a lot more traffic from Google than before. Maybe the PR is not as important as people make it out to be.
PR seems to be only important for people who are selling links. The dropping of PR did not seem to affect any of my SERPs for my blog. So if you think about it from a pure search engine results perspective, it didn’t matter. The only difference is what you can sell a link for which really has no search engine relevance.
Hey Ghillie,
As I mentioned in another post, if they want to change my PR, that’s on them. I use TLA and make more money from them than Google, so TLA stays and if need be, AdSense goes.