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1 year ago

in PageRank Is The Primary Google Search Ranking Factor on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
I think I get what you're trying to say Andy, but my own experience doesn't match up with your conclusions. I've got a PR 1 site (admittedly toolbar PR) that has just under 900 pages indexed which works out to nearly 100% of the pages. I've done nothing but on-page SEO. It would seem that if PR is the primary factor, that the site wouldn't be doing so well.

However, I do consider PR to be an important factor and I generally disagree with the folks that write it's not worth paying attention to. I figure SEOs should look at any data that Google provides and decide what to do with that information on a case-by-case basis rather than dismiss it outright.
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Andy Beard Marios I have sites like that as well and have experimented with all kinds of sites.

It doesn't take a lot of juice to get pages in the index, but it does take a good linking structure if you don't have a lot of juice.

A typical good linking structure for low juice sites is to force a spider from the home page to go only to the sitemap, and then from the individual pages link only to the home page - what I have discussed before as a "spider circle"

The technique doesn't require using nofollow, but using nofollow does allow you to add additional human navigation that might reduce the amount of juice that flows to the sitemap.

1 year ago

in PageRank Is The Primary Google Search Ranking Factor on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
I think I get what you're trying to say Andy, but my own experience doesn't match up with your conclusions. I've got a PR 1 site (admittedly toolbar PR) that has just under 900 pages indexed which works out to nearly 100% of the pages. I've done nothing but on-page SEO. It would seem that if PR is the primary factor, that the site wouldn't be doing so well.

However, I do consider PR to be an important factor and I generally disagree with the folks that write it's not worth paying attention to. I figure SEOs should look at any data that Google provides and decide what to do with that information on a case-by-case basis rather than dismiss it outright.
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Andy Beard Marios I have sites like that as well and have experimented with all kinds of sites.

It doesn't take a lot of juice to get pages in the index, but it does take a good linking structure if you don't have a lot of juice.

A typical good linking structure for low juice sites is to force a spider from the home page to go only to the sitemap, and then from the individual pages link only to the home page - what I have discussed before as a "spider circle"

The technique doesn't require using nofollow, but using nofollow does allow you to add additional human navigation that might reduce the amount of juice that flows to the sitemap.

1 year ago

in Google Sitelinks On A PR4 1 Year Old Domain on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Sorry for the double post, I couldn't resist. It took me jsut 5 minutes to find another PR4 site with sitelinks. Maybe it isn't that uncommon after all? This time it's a real estate site with a state-level focus. However, the domain is pretty old so I still think hitting the sitelinks level in 1 year is worth noting.

1 year ago

in Google Sitelinks On A PR4 1 Year Old Domain on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Sorry for the double post, I couldn't resist. It took me jsut 5 minutes to find another PR4 site with sitelinks. Maybe it isn't that uncommon after all? This time it's a real estate site with a state-level focus. However, the domain is pretty old so I still think hitting the sitelinks level in 1 year is worth noting.

1 year ago

in Google Sitelinks On A PR4 1 Year Old Domain on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Sitelinks for PR5 sites is actually quite common. I just checked three past client sites that are PR 5 and two of them continue to have sitelinks. However, like you, I've never seen them on a PR4 site before. Kudos!

1 year ago

in Google Sitelinks On A PR4 1 Year Old Domain on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Sitelinks for PR5 sites is actually quite common. I just checked three past client sites that are PR 5 and two of them continue to have sitelinks. However, like you, I've never seen them on a PR4 site before. Kudos!

1 year ago

in Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3) on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Similar to Adam (several comments prior to this one), my site (old site, but new domain) has moved from a PR 0 to a PR 3. Seems like a real toolbar update and if I recall correctly this is just the second update this year making it overdue, no?

1 year ago

in Real or Fake PageRank Update In Progress (round 3) on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Similar to Adam (several comments prior to this one), my site (old site, but new domain) has moved from a PR 0 to a PR 3. Seems like a real toolbar update and if I recall correctly this is just the second update this year making it overdue, no?
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