Page Rank Update Megathread (update 31.12.2009)

Yeah, the site I've been working on went straight in from a 0/10 PR (I put the site up at the end of December), and this morning, live on Google, it's got a 5/10 PR with 514 PR4+ backlinks.

mmm mmm, is there any sight so great as to see hundreds of backlinks where once there was none.

Hey everone. I was just reading an article on google and SEO.
This guys said joing a link farm or link ring is a really bad idea?
Is this true, or speculative?
I joined one called the florida hunting trail you can see it at the bottom of my page.
http://www.floridafishandhunt.com
Do you all advise against this?

-Doug

It's not that they're necessarily a BAD idea, at least not the one you've implemented, it's just the way that particular one is implemented, it's not going to help you with any search engines...

The actual HTML code for that bit of the page (and all the links it entails) isn't actually in your HTML source. Instead it pulls some javascript...



Google (and most any other search engine) doesn't understand, and therefore doesn't read JavaScript code.

So, even if links to your site are being displayed on other sites in the ring, Google isn't picking up on those.

Webrings like that, which use JavaScript to display it are purely for human traffic. Even if there's 1,000 other sites in the ring, and they are all linking to you in the ring code, it won't make a bit of difference to Google and other search engines.

You definetely nailed that one. When do you predict the next update will be. I want to see if you just got lucky or if you have some magical insight

He's the Google CEO in disguise

I see PR1 too.

My brand new site (less then a month old) jumped up from PR0 to PR4 But google shows only a few backlinks - may be next month it will show all of them.

Uh oh....my secret's out. Quiet everyone, or ill change all your pr's to 0!

Just looked at my blog, jumped from a PR of 3 to a 5. Haven't even done anything to it in weeks. I am liking this update more and more.

You dont ever have to do anything. PR is only updated beyond google's initial ranking by aquiring inbound links. Check your IBL's and you should see some new ones.

True, but I didnt expect my PR to increase when I havent found new links in forever. And I know my blog isnt one that people would want to link to, afterall new posts are added maybe once a month.

some people link to blogs for a single quote that catches their attention.

Change mine to PR10, and I'll donate ya a coupla points, hehe

http://www.google.com/search?q=floridaf ... 8&filter=0


wooohooooo My stuff is starting to get spidered (Ithink)

I typed in floridafishandhunt

and clicked the omitted results text and saw my pages there.
That hasnt happened before.
I was so excited I almost wet myself.
Heh.

I then typed T.M. Goodwin which was the name of an article I wrote on a duck hunting spot and I was in the top 4 or 5

I then tried florida fishing of course no luck.

As my page rank goes up does my position on searched terms go up?

Thanks Guys!

Doug

these are your indexed pages so far
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:floridafishandhunt.com+inurl:floridafishandhunt.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0

I'm very exited too - we've got PR4 and 85 pages indexed just after 3 weeks of beeing lunched

Good luck to everyone!