Comments on: How Google PageRank affects my search engine rankings and traffic

By: louize

louize — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:44:49 +0000

Does anyone know whether Bing will be operating the same principle as google? Ive looked at their search engine and I like it (especially how you can hover over text without actually going to the website) but my site is no-where currently on key words optimised for Google. It could be that they havent sorted all of this yet or it could mean that theyre operating a completely different method. ANyone know?

Great blog BTW
Louise

By: JB

JB — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:06:27 +0000

Hi, thanks for the post. I was just wondering why I haven't been getting much traffic from Google and thought it may be due to not having a page rank yet (opened my blog about a month ago and page rank doesn't update til September) and this post has confirmed what I was thinking.

By: ziv

ziv — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:59:12 +0000

I have an excellent instance:
I have 3 blogs: 2 with PR3 and 1 with PR2. All 3 are fresh - 2 months.

The successful one (PR3) gets 1250 daily visitors mainly from Google!!!
The two other: one (PR3) gets 45 the other (PR2) 9.

My impression is that PR doesn't matter that much – no affection to SERPs at the short term.
However, unique and useful content - yes. Let’s see how PR will affect on the coming days.

By: Chanaka

Chanaka — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:35:17 +0000

I’m reading your posts to get an idea about what’s going on on my blog. Day by day I’m getting less Google search engine results. I’m not using any keywords. Earlier i got decent number of Google search traffic. Google has assigned page rank 1 on my blog and it didn’t change since the beginning. Wish some one help me on this one.

By: Steen Öhman

Steen Öhman — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:33:30 +0000

Good work

In my experience it seems like the succes comes like when you use a ketchup bottle, at fist nothing happens, and then it comes all at once.

I think it has a lot to do with Google’s indexing of the site and of the links pointing at the site – and how they translates into rankings.

By: Christian

Christian — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:56:23 +0000

Great success story. Love hearing people make their way up in Google. It seems like I have read all the tips and cant get past PR1. Only time and lots of long hours will tell.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:29:23 +0000

@Sheryl Loch – Thanks for the comment. Definitely, the traffic search engines send you is the most important part. If you already get search engine traffic, I wouldn’t really put too much attention on PR etc. Just keep building content as the more content you have indexed, the increased chance you have of getting new visitors via long-tail keywords.

By: Sheryl Loch

Sheryl Loch — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:21:25 +0000

I had my PR drop this time around. Well, the home page dropped but other pages went up. Even with the domain page dropping it’s rank I am getting more hits from Search results than before. PR seems to be more for advertisers to look at then actual placement in the serp’s.
I just keep plugging along in case I ever want to sell advertising then I need to get my PR back up on all pages.

By: Marko Saric

Marko Saric — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:58:48 +0000

@TI – If you get search engine traffic, I would not be too focused on your PR being still 0. Who cares about PR, if they still do send you traffic? If you get no search engine traffic, and also have a PR0 then some of the strategies mentioned in this article should help.

@washington – Good story. Definitely true. Having a keyword-rich domain name is the first step in getting traffic from search engines. Another step is making your permalinks pretty so they include your article titles in them.

By: TI

TI — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:37:45 +0000

Hi Marko !!

dear as per ur article I m in know hw situation, I started regular blogging also from Oct last year. Got very good search engine visitors. Around 41% of my visitors are from search engine and majority of them thru google. Get daily arnd 300 unique hits and arnd 2000 pageviews ( this data doesnt include Seearch Engine data). Got nearly 30 – 40 hits thru google search engine and nearly in total 50+ from various search engine. These data are from google analytics .

But then also my ranking is PR0 , dunt know why, even google index my all result in just 10 min. Whenever I post it appeared on google search engine.

Can u please tell me what is the reason behind this ,, I m very fraustrated with this PR issue. But happy that google giving me maximum exposer on his search engine.

My site is for meant for Indian Financial market and information provided hereto is meant only for Financial data and information for mass people.