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ActiveRain's PageRank Drops to a 5!

I recall AR's Pagerank being a 7 right before the change! (Changed today)

That's a 2 point drop.....scale is from 1-10.

My Mortgage North Carolina website FINALLY received a Pagerank of 1...after starting the site on August 25th...and the site went live in the first week of September.

The funny thing is that I have almost 1,000 backlinks with Yahoo, MSN, and with some other search providers.

With Google I have 0! I think they seriously need to fix this sooooon.

Most SEO experts say that PageRank means NOTHING...NADA....ZIP....ZERO!

I added Google Analytics to my SEO arsenal...this site helps to verify how many visitors have visited your site...and from where. (Pretty cool tool...does some other stuff like keywords that led to your site. etc)

I added this tool on October 16, 2007.....and did a Unique Visitor Count

Here are my results

439 Absolute Unique Visitors in only 10days!!!

My advice..focus on new content..and more cotent..and other stuff besides the 'green bar' on the google toolbar

Pagerank doesnt determine how many visitors visit your site..Check out Alexarank for your visitor rank.

Carolinahomerates.com has a traffic rank of: 2,488,099 This was right before I added the Google Analytics.

How did you guys do?

Posted by North Carolina Mortgage Lender on 10/26/2007 08:37 PM

Comments (15)

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15 Comments on ActiveRain's PageRank Drops to a 5!

Robert, you look too young to be blogging. ;)

What change are you referring too?

10/26/2007 08:46 PM

by Ann Heitland, Associate Broker, CRS, GRI , ABR ~ Flagstaff Real Estate/Community (Team Heitland at RE/MAX Peak Properties)

Google has what they call a sandbox period. You need to play in that sandbox for a month or more until its proven your website is here to stay!

10/26/2007 08:49 PM

by Daniel Sundberg Foreclosure Specialist (Crystal Springs Real Estate)

The PageRank scored dropped from a 7 to a 5.

I'm only 2yrs old ;)

10/26/2007 08:50 PM

by North Carolina Mortgage Lender (Charlotte Home Mortgage)

Oh.. well in that case... i have nooooo clue..

10/26/2007 08:56 PM

by Daniel Sundberg Foreclosure Specialist (Crystal Springs Real Estate)

I'm lost. Somebody is to young, somebody is 2, something was 7 and now its 5 and Google is in the sandbox?

10/26/2007 09:04 PM

by Jason Smith Iowa Hunting Properties and Farm Land (Whitetail Trophy Properties)

I read an article outside of AR that many large very important sites were downrated a couple points. I forget where I read it - Sorry. But some biggies went from 9's to 5's etc. Google was punishing those with paid links or participating in link directories.

10/26/2007 09:05 PM

by Elaine Reese, REALTOR® in central Ohio (Real Living HER, Worthington Ohio)

Elaine - I read that also....I saw some posts on warriorforum about that.

I hope Google explains the new rules

10/26/2007 09:07 PM

by North Carolina Mortgage Lender (Charlotte Home Mortgage)

I so identify with Jason Smith's comment. I suspect he's playing... and really does understand the lingo.... but not all of us have arrived yet! Help us out, please!

10/26/2007 09:16 PM

by Jan Evett Panama City Beach, FL (Ryan Realty Properties, Inc. )

The name given to Google's method of ranking pages according to a number of factors such as link popularity. ...

Formula developed by Google to determine a web pages "inbound link ranking" Often referred to as "PR" value.

A proprietary measurement of Google's proprietary ordering of pages in its Web index. PageRank is the most intense point of focus, speculation, observation, and desire in the Webmaster and optimization communities. ...

here are some web definitions to what Pagerank is....

Usually the higher the PR....the more backlinks you have. Not just backlinks but QUALITY backlinks

10/26/2007 09:19 PM

by North Carolina Mortgage Lender (Charlotte Home Mortgage)

I like to use www.compete.com for traffic measurements. Both my sites have a page rank of 3. Google loves my blog...it is usually indexed in about an hour. It is all about content....google loves new fresh content.

You might want to unbold most of your first page and only bold your anchor words. Google adds importance to the bolded words, so if your anchor words are bold...it will help find it.

Good luck

10/26/2007 09:23 PM

by Bob Carney Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent (Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.)

Bob....I didnt realize the first part was bolded!!!! thanks!

10/26/2007 09:24 PM

by North Carolina Mortgage Lender (Charlotte Home Mortgage)

I'm moving to NC..the air must be great down there..you look so youthful

10/26/2007 09:50 PM

by Konnie MAC Northern Virginia Real Estate (Konnie McKee )

Thank you! What part of NC

10/26/2007 09:51 PM

by North Carolina Mortgage Lender (Charlotte Home Mortgage)

any leads in all those visits?

10/26/2007 11:17 PM

by William Moore (Innovative Realty)

William - about 12-13% return

10/27/2007 05:08 PM

by North Carolina Mortgage Lender (Charlotte Home Mortgage)

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