Google Page Rank update – DollarShower.com is PR3 now!
Ajith | Sep 2008 | Updates From Us
Yet another Google page rank update is underway as it seems. My Google toolbar is showing a rank of 3 now for D$ which is not a bad news for a six months old blog. However, to be frank, I was expecting a PR4 (greed!) this time as my link building habit has been pretty much consistent.
Something seems to have gone wrong with my backlinks recently. A few others also have reported this problem. For the past week or so there has been a drop of up to 25-30% in my backlinks. Perhaps, Google was busy cleaning up some of them before the new PRs are publicized. Anyway, 3 is better than 2 and I wouldn’t mind taking it. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my regular readers by giving them some love.
What PR are they?
The following are the latest Google page ranks of the blogs that are owned by our regular readers. Though I don’t remember the previous ranks of many of them, I feel that there are no significant changes in the ratings.
Barbara’s BWAB: PR4
Syed’s Balkhis: PR4
Kim’s (Anti) Social Development: PR3
Rajiv’s Blog: PR3
Ari’s Our Best Version: PR3
Geek-Speak: PR3
Rajaie Talks: PR3
Ramesh’s The Geek Stuff: PR3
Nagraj’s Hoxful Monsters: PR2
Prasanna’s TechSagar: PR2
My old portal: PR1
Hussein’s Blog: PR0
The Melvin Blog : PR0
My Cricket Blog: PR0
How do we make it better next time?
For those who aspire to improve their PRs next time, the following post may be of use. It basically explains how many backlinks (and with what kind of PRs on them) will it take to obtain a desired PR for your blog.
Formula to obtain a high Google PR
Please note that having a great PR on the homepage alone may not be sufficient in the long run. For better search visibility of your content and monetization, you need to get good page ranks for many of your posts and articles.
Over to you
My list above may be incomplete and hence why not discuss about your latest PR here? Also please let me know if you are happy with this particular round of PR update from Google based on your personal experience.
Thank you all for your support and readership!
Well, congrats to you Ajith! I’m not really that into PR, but I have yet to check if my site will be getting a PR boost this update.
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Haha, Mine is also 3 now, the same as thegeekstuff.com. admon.org is the youngest among these three domains… cheers!
my blog form pr2 to pr0 in about a month.,.. and i ddnt even do anything suspicious..
Melvin’s last blog post…The Pleasure Of Being Read
Hi Ajit, I was expecting a lower PR for my blog in this update as I am taking break from blogging for few weeks to keep my personnel commitments. So, I am not disappointed after this update. I hope I will be able to get a better PR once I restart my blogging journey.
. ANH, congrats for getting a promotion. You deserved it. Keep up the good work.
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Do you think they have completed the ranking? I looked at the chart in your page rank formula article. I know that I have a link from a PR6 blog. Shouldn’t that give me a PR4?
And thanks so much for the link!! And for the great articles.
Kim Woodbridge’s last blog post…Do You Follow Written Instructions?
Still no change in my blog. I am so disappointed. When will google forgive me? I have already deleted all sponsored reviews
Anyway, congrats for having PR3 and thanks for the link love. This will surely help me to have my PR back
Hussein’s last blog post…Let’s Try Niche Site
This is the first time I’m getting a PR and I’m very happy with PR3 for my 4 months old blog. I didn’t worry about PR until now. The article “formula to get high PR” is excellent and explains about PR concepts clearly. Probably should I start focusing on linking little more.
Hi Ajith,
Hey, thanks for the link love. Does Google change page rank quarterly, or do you know how that works. I was a 2 or 3 at the beginning of the year, so I’m happy with the 4. Although my page rank has been increasing, my search engine traffic is still low – around 15%. I guess that’s not bad as I don’t use a lot of SEO writing tactics.
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@Lucas, thanks… I am sure Netstrife is armed enough to get a great PR boost
@admon, that is incredible! Getting a PR3 within three months of launch is something that you can be proud of…
@Melvin, I am sorry for the downgrade… Did you take tips from Hussein for any chance
just kidding. But I am sure, you will get there soon…
@Prasanna, thank you very much for the compliments… I am sure Techsagar will be back in form soon, once you sort out your other priority issues.
@Kim, that is strange… Perhaps the ranking is not yet over for the other blogs. May be the Pr^ blog that you talked about is a PR5 (or going to be once the update is over) now? Regardless…you deserve a better ranking
@Hussein, no need to worry buddy. I am sure you will be ranked better in the near future. And as you rightly said, sponsored reviews can kill the blog in terms of PR
@Ramesh, so you made it big in less than 4 months! Congratulations… Now keep building your links to preserve that rank
@Barbara, Google does PR updates three to four times a year. However, in the last year they did not do it for almost six monthos continuously. And your PR is definitely improving. 15% search traffic sounds a bit low. Have you tried All In One – SEO plugin aleady? Looks like it can be a good starting point fo seo optimize your blog posts.
Thank you everyone for your views and encouragement (as always)….
Cheers,
Ajith
hey congrats Ajith !!!! i think u deserved the promotion for the nice and informative articles …………for mine i was surethat i wont be maintaining my PR 4 as i was not getting much time ….so no surprises ….next few months will also be like this ………but hope i would be able to update regularly……….
Good luck!!!
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Arjith,
I don’t know if mine should be higher or not. I’m happy with where it’s at right now. I didn’t think that the PR6 blog might have gone down. It’s still at 6 in a page rank search. It’s pretty established too so I would be surprised if it dropped.
It’s interesting that so few of Barbara’s visitors come from search – mine is 50% The downside of search visitors is that they are usually looking for something specific and don’t look beyond that one page. I am much more interested in traffic from referring sites – they tend to spend more time and investigate more than one page.
@Nagraj, thanks… Your blog has some great niche content and will soon go up.
@Kim, Yeah I saw that the blog you talked about is still maintaining 6 (and congrats for the technical consultancy provided… that blog rocks!) There was a talk this time that Google is changing the page ranking algorithm and hence a faster PR update (the last one was hardly two months back)
You are right Kim. 15% visitors from search is not very ideal. Mine is between 40% and 50% most of the weeks. As for the high bounce rate of search visitors, you need to bring it down to something like 40% (as against 60 or 70 which is the case initially). For that they need to see something more interesting than the search result page alone on the landing page. I am improving the good old landing sites plugin which is out of support right now. You could search any major search engine for something related to this blog (e.g. ‘bidvertiser secrets’) from major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Live, Ask, AOL, AllTheWeb, Altavista, Lycos etc) and if you click on the dollarshower test results, you will see some special message and links for the search visitor… This modification has helped me to reduce the bounce rate a bit… Once I add more customization to this plugin, I shall release it.
Referral visits are always good and more valuable than search visits. However, search visits will get more conversions (ad clicks, affiliation…)
Hi Ajith,
Thanks for the link love! I am pleasantly surprised that my site is up to 3. I gave up on SEO-centric writing long ago, as it really un-motivated me to write that way.
This is a good, practical information. Thanks for sharing.
ari
Ari Koinuma’s last blog post…Because We Can’t Grow Alone
Ari, congratulations on getting 3 in such a short time… You sure are being followed by quite a few.
That’s good news. I just started blogging and I am getting good points from your blog. Way to go.
Thanks a lot frenchy chu… Keep visiting the blog and more importantly let the feedbacks pour in
Congrats dude, for getting Pagerank 3.
Same here with my blog. me too got the PR 3.
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Thanks Chetan and congratulations to you too buddy.
This is great. I had a friend check mine. She emailed and said I was coming in with a 3. I have never focused on this. With a busy schedule…I just post and read blogs that I enjoy. I have to say that I might just jump on the wagon with the rest of you. I do like a personal challenge.
Thank you so much for sharing this information. Keep us posted on the journey. I look forward to following you.
Tammy Warren’s last blog post…My "wound" heart
Congratulation Tammy on that… PR is just an assignment of your search visibility but what makes any blog great is its contents and personal touch. And that way your blog rocks!
Nice blog and design. Congrats on your PR3. Ironically my site which is a PR checker is still at PR0..lol..what a hypocrite I am..:p
Thanks bud… Would be great if you could provide suggestions/feedback to improve the blog
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