What is wrong with my PageRank?
ADVERTISEMENTSMy homepage has been stuck with PR 3 for sometime now. After the recent PageRank update, I found a lot of my pages having PR 5. But the homepage still remained PR 3.
I then contacted my friend Deep, who is good at Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and asked him the reason. After he analysed my site he says the problem may be because I am using extra Meta Tags that do not have value now. I removed the extra tags and reported it to Google.
These are the Meta Tags I used
I removed all these tags except the Description and Keywords ones. Deep said that one of this clients also face this same problem and he too has such extra unnecessary Meta tags.
Yesterday my friend Keith Dsouza let me know that https://johntp.com had PR 5 even though johntp.com still has PR 3.
Do you face any such problems with your site’s PageRank?
A very short list of the pages that got an increase in PageRank with the recent PR update.
PageRank 7
PageRank 6
https://johntp.com/…/how-to-create-a-custom-k2-scheme-part-1/
https://johntp.com/2006/06/02/technoblue-released/
PageRank 5
https://johntp.com/…how-to-create-a-custom-k2-scheme-part-2/
https://johntp.com/…remove-all-unwanted-yahoo-messenger-ads/
https://johntp.com/2006/04/06/wordpress-plugins/
https://johntp.com/2006/03/30/how-to-get-regular-readers-part1/
https://johntp.com/…/how-to-increase-download-speeds-of-utorrent/
There are many more pages that got a PR increase. Has your site’s PageRank increased?
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Posted on July 17th, 2006 | Category: General |
Shivaranjan
July 17, 2006 at 10:33 am
Why is that https://johntp.com has got a PR3 and https://johntp.com has got PR 5.
As far as I know both are same…. Is google going nuts?
John T P
July 17, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I asked Deep about this, he replied
Deep
July 17, 2006 at 12:36 pm
Actually I had told you Meta tag issue because on one of my other sites i had faced the exactly same kind of problem. and that site had unwatned meta tags like revisit time etc..so my guess was, it is possible that some bug in google might be causing issue with a comobination lf meta tags.
But here in your case google is considering https://johntp.com and johntp.com as 2 different domains. This problem is temporary and should be fixed by next update or so.
Deep
james
July 18, 2006 at 10:24 am
I have the same problem my website http://www.mototips.com has a page rank of 3 and mototips.com has a page rank of 0. I know there is no content there right now and that is because i brought it down after the page rank update for a complete reconstruction. So I would like to know when this is going to be fixed also :(.
Madhur Kapoor
July 18, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Hi John
My Page rank has incresed to 5 from 3 . Havent checked for individual pages . Dont want to do it manually , is there any site which can do it .
Jason Drohn
July 18, 2006 at 11:50 pm
Hi Madhur,
there are a bunch of extensions that you can use with mozilla that will give you the pr. You can also download the google toolbar and enable the pr ranking scale. I use an extension myself, but my site is still a 0. I just started it..
Jason Drohn
July 18, 2006 at 11:53 pm
John,
I liked the robot and revisit after tag. Did you delete those too?
John T P
July 19, 2006 at 4:04 am
Yes, I deleted them too.
BlogTheInternet
July 19, 2006 at 9:25 am
John, I told you I was reading PR5 on your site almost a week ago. Not only did I tell you this, but we spoke about it together in your chat room.
Ryan
July 20, 2006 at 1:57 pm
My blog page has a pagerank of 0 while my index page (which is blank except for a redirect to my blog, and I’ve been meaning to change that actually) has a PR 4. Since there are about equal links to both URLs, shouldn’t my blog page have a higher PR?
Mohib
July 23, 2006 at 3:52 am
Congrats !
Your PR is now 5. Also, your Page Strength is 4.
I have had some really weird experience with Google PR. I would blog about that soon. My personal blog, with not even indexing in Google has just got its first PR and that too 4.
John T P
July 23, 2006 at 3:56 am
https://johntp.com still has PR 3
Turbo Geek
July 23, 2006 at 7:11 am
My site too have been stuck at PR3 for lots of month now. I don’t have unnessary tags also. Anyways does anybody know wat happened to Gravatar Icons??
John T P
July 23, 2006 at 7:26 am
Turbo Geek- This is the message I got when I visited http://www.gravatar.com
I am sure this is just a temporary problem
Mohib
July 23, 2006 at 9:47 am
Why not re-direct all your incoming traffic to https://johntp.com ?
Paul Stamatiou
July 25, 2006 at 1:58 am
This is normal.. read this
Will
August 12, 2006 at 6:16 pm
We experienced a similar phenomenon. Our homepage had been a PR5 for many months and then the most recent PageRank update took it down to a PR3, but decided that one of our deeper pages was worth a PR6!
tony
September 27, 2006 at 4:31 pm
But what has meta tags got to do with PR..?
CypherHackz
September 27, 2006 at 5:35 pm
as i know, pr is based on how popular the page is. the more links back to the page, the more popular it is.
JohnTP
September 29, 2006 at 9:05 am
tony- Meta Tags had nothing to do with the PR problem. I removed them as they have less value now.
I am probably facing this PR problem because Google is considering https://johntp.com and https://johntp.com as two different domains. This problem is temporary and should be fixed by next update or so.
I earlier had 190 backlinks for https://johntp.com and 59 for https://johntp.com. With the latest Backlinks update, Google has added up both these and other backlinks and now I have 859 backlinks for https://johntp.com and 0 for https://johntp.com .
This might mean that by next update my PageRank problems shall be over