Want Your Google Page Rank Reconsidered? Need More Traffic?
The dreaded Google Page Rank – it haunts me in my sleep! I went from a 0 to a 3 to a 0. No one really understands how page rank works but I am always desperate to try anything to help my site.
Are your a blogger? Make sure you sign up for Google Webmaster Tools. Now I am by no means an SEO expert (or even beginner) but after hearing back from Google on how to improve my page rank I was all over this site. You sign up, add your site, verify it and then you even get access to all sorts of webmasters tools. I can’t see it hurting you and it has some great links and resources. The site says it will increase traffic to your site, alert you to errors on your site and give you data about your site.
Oh and did I mention, this is all FREE from Google!
Have a low Page Rank and want Google to re-consider you? You can submit your site for reconsideration with Google.
I was a 3 and then switched to my own domain and fell to a big fat ZERO. Thanks for this information, I hope it helps me get back up there.
I remember that happening to me when I switched my URL last February. All my stats came back quickly though. Good luck!
Page Rank mainly comes from incoming links. The mistake was to not have the old URLs redirected to the new domain to pass the existing Page Rank. It’s as simple as that, I’m sorry to say.
Google updates the little green PR figure every three months but it’s instantly out of date as soon as it appears as it is constantly changing. It does not affect where you rank for searches so don’t worry too much.
Most important is to not listen to people who promise to increase your PR and do not sell text links, no matter what your PR is.
WordPress with the free All-in-one-SEO plugin is as good a start as any as long as you don;t use their free-hosted version.
Sorry for the long comment but, been there, done that, as they say, lol.
Thanks Susan for your long comment. I had thought my URLs would be redirected and when I realized they weren’t really it was just one thing after another. I hate that companies rely on it so much as I don’t think it necessarily should be a determining factor but alas it matters so I will keep focusing on it. I wonder too how many people pay for services to improve it, what a scam! I think I have the SEO plugin actually but I haven’t done anything with it, thanks!
Ugh, I went from a 3 to a 2… bummer. I think I’m just glad places seem to care more about hits & less about pagerank. Do you work directly w/ companies for promotions, or do you go through places like Mom Central?
It is nice that less places are focusing on page rank, but nevertheless it drives me crazy! I work with Mom Central as well as tons of other companies!
Thanks! I just signed up. I definitely could use all the help I can get.
No prob!
I didn’t know you could submit your site for reconsideration. Interesting
I actually emailed Google page rank and the guy emailed me back with tips – that being one of them.
I am off to check out the site. My blog went from a 3 to a 2 and I am not happy about it!
sadly, google and squarespace(my platform host) are not compatible! this drives me crazy!
That sucks! Why not change, I have never heard of Squarespace?
I used blogger from 2006-2010. I went to Squarespace early 2010 and my stats PLUMMETED! Like from 10K a month to ZERO! Literally over night – even though my domain was exactly the same. It was the strangest thing. It took a year to get my stats back – A YEAR! But I still lost so many people. I’m afraid if I switch again – I will have to start all over again. I just don’t want to do that. Plus, I don’t like WP and don’t want to go back to blogger – so kind of stuck!
Yeah that does suck. I transferred from blogger to wordpress and luckily my stats didn’t change much. Then I changed my URL/blog name on wordpress. I did have a problem though where Hostgator couldn’t re-direct my old site to my new site so they mirrored the content. Since then my google page rank went to 0 and has been since. I think Google dinged me for duplicate content. Funny thing though is I called Hostgator last week and they were able to re-direct my site no problem! So for the past year my google rating sucked because the original guy I got on customer service didn’t know how to do it!
Mine usually bounces back and forth from 2 to 3 depending on how often I post.
Ugh! I’ve heard these horror stories lately. Some people had text links galore so that might be what happened to them. I don’t accept text link ads anymore. I used to, but they fell off finally a few months ago and now I just don’t accept them. But I’m sorry! I hope you get your page rank back!
Thanks! Yeah I have heard text links are killers but its a double edged sword because the money is tempting.