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August 7th, 2005, 1:38 pm

Hi all,

I wonder if any of you can help me solve this problem. My site is http://www.findpokergame.com and it's been online since the end of March this year.

Google have yet to Page Rank it, and I've checked everything I can think of that may be causing it. Tonight I ran the site:findpokergame.com on google and it lists 26 pages. So why does it still not have a PR?

Incidentally, the home page is ranked No1 on MSN for keywords "find poker game" . A link popularity checker shows 279 links but none for google/hot - any ideas?

Much appreciated

Angela

August 7th, 2005, 4:05 pm

angelaf wrote:

Hi all,

I wonder if any of you can help me solve this problem. My site is http://www.findpokergame.com and it's been online since the end of March this year.

Google have yet to Page Rank it, and I've checked everything I can think of that may be causing it. Tonight I ran the site:findpokergame.com on google and it lists 26 pages. So why does it still not have a PR?

Incidentally, the home page is ranked No1 on MSN for keywords "find poker game" . A link popularity checker shows 279 links but none for google/hot - any ideas?

Much appreciated

Angela

First, I suggest that you remove this tag
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

That tells googlebot to come back in 15 days. You don't want that.
I mean, Googlebot finds a link to your site, but then is told not to
load the page!


Next, it looks like you have about 20 backlinks with yahoo.com. I
checked the first five and found 3 with some PR and 2 with PR0.

You have no backlinks with Google and that's your problem.

Your backlinks with a PR0 won't count for much with Google. Possibly,
some of the other backlinks are new?

I mean if you had all those backlinks in March, I would say you should
have PR now, but more than likely, those are recent.

Get more backlinks and be patient.


Bompa

August 8th, 2005, 10:49 am

Hi,

I hope Google follows some age filter, a site old more than 6 month only gets pr!

Hopefully you will get pr on next pr updating.

August 8th, 2005, 1:33 pm

Thanks - I'll give it a try and get more backlinks.

August 9th, 2005, 4:27 am

Quote:

First, I suggest that you remove this tag
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

That tells googlebot to come back in 15 days. You don't want that.
I mean, Googlebot finds a link to your site, but then is told not to
load the page!

I agree that you should remove it, but just because it's a useless tag. The only meta-tag that tells spiders what to do is "robots".

As for the rest:
Google doesn't update backlinks information so frequently as Yahoo or MSN do, as well as Google updates toolbar PR value about once in 3 months.

So just wait a bit and you'll see both BLs in Google and your PR (if any).

You should also keep in mind that there's Sandbox filter by Google that prevents new websites to be ranked well. So it's a typical situation for a young website (up to 1 year old) to have top positions in Yahoo and MSN but be out of 1000 in Google.

Just keep working at your website, and it'll receive the results in several months.

August 9th, 2005, 8:21 pm

WiseSEO wrote:

...The only meta-tag that tells spiders what to do is "robots".

Mr WiseSEO, I think your statement is inaccurate.

Quote:

FROM:http://www.google.com/bot.html
13. How do I prevent Googlebot from following links on my pages?

To keep Googlebot from following links on your pages to other pages or documents, you'd place the following meta tag in the head of your HTML document:

<META NAME="Googlebot" CONTENT="nofollow">

To learn more about meta tags, please refer to http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion.html#meta; you can also read what the HTML standard has to say about these tags. Remember, changes to your site won't be immediately reflected in Google; they'll be discovered and propagate when Googlebot next crawls your site.

So, Google recommends that we read the standards, to me that
implies that Googlebot adheres to those standards.


Bompa

August 10th, 2005, 5:07 am

Thank you Bompa for correcting me -- you're right.

By bad, I forgot to mention that instead of meta "robots" you may use different tags (for each SE) like <META NAME="Googlebot"

Anyway, if you want ALL robots not to crawl your pages you don't need to list them all, but to add <meta name="robots"... only.

August 10th, 2005, 5:29 am

Quote:

First, I suggest that you remove this tag
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 days">

That tells googlebot to come back in 15 days. You don't want that.
I mean, Googlebot finds a link to your site, but then is told not to
load the page!
Bompa

Bompa...thank you for that information! I've got several new sites up and Google was hitting the index page and then leaving. I removed that tag and found that when Google returned later in the day my entire site was indexed

You are the man..........

Staci