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Why do I still have a 0 Page Rank on Google?

Posted by stayfamous • 7/31/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blog, google, help discussion, page rank

I've had my blog for about 6 months now and I still have a zero page rank on Google. Is there something I'm doing wrong? (If you can help or give me some advice I would really appreciate it... my blog is at stayfamous.blogspot.com). Thank you!

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7/31/08

voodooKobra

Because Google doesn't like you, your mother thinks you're ugly, and I'm obviously being sarcastic.

In all seriousness, these things take time. Your best bet is to KEEP WRITING, and keep contributing to online communities (such as BC) to get people interested in what you have to say.

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1. 7/31/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  "Because Google doesn't like you, your mother thinks you're ugly ..."
  
  LOL...
7/31/08

ThriftShopRomantic

If the pieces that are on your site-- which appear to possibly be press releases issued from you?-- are also on other sites with a greater PR/or been around longer than your blog (like major news sites) then Google may be viewing your content as redundant/not original material.

That's sort of what I'm guessing is happening here.

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7/31/08

stayfamous

So if people with a higher page rank take my stories and reprint them without permission, my site can actually be hurt?

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1. 7/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  Yes
2. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  How do I know if some other site is stealing my content?
3. 7/31/08
  
  stayfamous
  
  Good question! I want to know too!
4. 7/31/08
  
  voodooKobra
  
  Try doing a google search of sentences and key phrases from your posts.
5. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  thanks voodoo. that's what I was thinking. I'll have do some PI work (of course, the big boys probably don't even know my page exists anyway...)
6. 7/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @opinionstreams
  "How do I know if some other site is stealing my content?"
  
  www.copyscape.com
  Search for copies of your page on the Web.
7. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  @TT - Bingo! This is just what I was looking for. I just used that service to search for copies of my article on Obama's healthcare plan and found that somebody copy/pasted virtually my whole article onto a forum without giving me ANY love for it! They enclosed several paragraphs of my article in quotation marks, but never gave the source of the quote. I guess I shouldn't feel so bad because they were using my article to basically agree with me and it is a forum, not another blog or news service. BUT DANG! GIVE ME SOME CREDIT WHY DON'T YOU!
  
  See for yourself. Go to www.copyscape.com and type opinionstreams.com/blog/?p=24 into the copyscape search (don't forget the http://) and it will take you to the forum that copied me. My copied text is highlighted toward the middle of the page.
8. 7/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  @opinionstreams
  Slpog Off! Dealing with Content Theft includes step by step instructions including a DMCA complaint fill in the blanks form
  onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/splog-off-dealing-with-content-theft/
9. 7/31/08
  
  stayfamous
  
  This is really helpful stuff. I'm going to add these links to my del.icio.us/stayfamous account in case I need them.
10. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  TT does it again! I'm definitely bookmarking this article on del.icio.us. Thanks TT for making sure bloggers are empowered!
7/31/08

jsinkeywest

Up until recently yes but now NO
Google just let me slide on all my blogs
use searchles.com and mixx.com backlink all your stuff thru them back to you
and you will see what happens.
Are you high? I just saw a PRthree on your blog brother.
The reason I know cause I actually go on people's blogs
PR3 is fine for 6 months;)
I saw it in two places and you have a three trust me
Now do something about that Alexa:)
Just kidding it is a PR3 confirmed,google tool bar and my other tool thingy you have a 3
Did u go to SU I did;)

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7/31/08

stayfamous

All the Page Rank checkers I look at say zero, where did you go to see the 3?

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7/31/08

stayfamous

Awesome, that makes me feel much better!

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7/31/08

stayfamous

Thanks for the other two links too. I'm going to go check them out right now. Alexa?

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1. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/stayfamous.blogspot.com
2. 7/31/08
  
  timethief
  
  You can use this checker www.selfseo.com/check_google_pagerank.php
  It includes:
  PageRank
  Alexa Rank
  Listed in DMOZ
  Backlinks from Google
  Backlinks from Yahoo
  Backlinks from MSN
  Results from AltaVista
  Results from All the Web
  Website Thumbnail
7/31/08

stayfamous

Wow, that's really bad!

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1. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Well, its accuracy is debatable, but I see it as a nice tool, and the closer you get to 100000, the more accurate it is supposed to be. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on it, but it's nice to check every once in a while, especially for comparing yourself with competing sites. If your values are flawed, so are other people's, so the comparison still holds. I use it as an indication of trendline only, because it pretty much coincides with my WordPress stats, so it cannot be that wrong.
7/31/08

stayfamous

I've thought about moving over to WordPress, because the statistics information I am getting from the other blog search engines isn't accurate.

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1. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  If you're analytically inclined, Google Analytics is probably the best, but it takes some work to get something really useful out of it. The WordPress stats are in fact based on Google Analytics.
2. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Mind you, with WordPress, no Google Adsense or scripted widgets, but with your blog that doesn't seem like a problem anyway.
3. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  Wordpress' stats information is awesome. You should definitely consider the switch.
7/31/08

stayfamous

Yeah, the Google ads right now are just for show. They don't do me any good either! My goal isn't to make money from the site though.

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1. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Ah, finally a "serious" blogger. If so, then WordPress is the place to be. Welcome!
2. 7/31/08
  
  stayfamous
  
  I'm definitely not in it for the money... because if I was I think I've only made $3! Ha ha ha. I would be the worst money making blog on the internet.
7/31/08

stayfamous

Yeah right now the only other issue I'm having is trying to figure out how to host the site at StayFamous.Net without acutally moving the hosting. I bought the domain but I don't want to host the blog through Godaddy. (Right now it's just redirected to blogspot)

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7/31/08

whojaybe

Hey, if you need help, feel free to hit me up... sounds like you're working on getting more traffic and/or increasing all your stats, huh?

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7/31/08

tpvswp

@ stayfamous
No problem. Sign up for a blog on WordPress, export your posts from Blogger, import your posts in WordPress, and move the domain. You can choose a different registrar than GoDaddy if you want.

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7/31/08

stayfamous

Does it cost any money?

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1. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Well, if you move it to a different registrar it will cost money, say +/- $10/yr. A blog on wordpress.com is free, but if you want to add a domain and actually display the domain in the address bar of the browser, that's $10/yr on WordPress. If you just want to redirect your domain from .blogspot.com to .wordpress.com using GoDaddy I suppose that's free. But since you already are with GoDaddy, and I don't know their pricing plans, it should be free to fully route your domain to wordpress:
  faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/10/domain-mapping/
2. 7/31/08
  
  stayfamous
  
  That's very interesting. When I started the blog I didn't know about WordPress, and the more I hear about it the more I want to switch. It sounds like I could do it too, so I'm going to have to sit down and figure that out. You're convincing me to make the move!
3. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Like I said, a blog on wordpress.com is free. Try it out and import from Blogger and see how you like it. You can set your blog to private, so it won't be seen by search engines, that is while you work on it (Google isn't exactly happy about duplicate content), and if you like, do the switch.
4. 7/31/08
  
  stayfamous
  
  Oh that's good to know too. Because I was thinking that if I just created two blogs then I wouldn't lose the old one, but having a duplicate of the same material would cannibalize my own work?
5. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Since your .blogspot.com has PR3 Google would see the same content on .wordpress.com with PR 0 as duplicate and potentially inferior and rank it lower, although the opposite happened to me when moving one of my blogs from TypePad to WordPress, so...
7/31/08

latinocool79

You are not in for the money? I bet if you made 500 you would not say that... or .. um... maybe you don't need it. I am not in for the money but it comes by itself.

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7/31/08

stayfamous

Don't get me wrong, it would be nice to make money doing something I love, but that's not why I do the blog.

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1. 7/31/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  If you are good, and write timeless content, with a target market and a niche, money will compensate your passion. I don't do it for money but because of this compensation I can blog more and more instead of just posting every now and then.
  
  And move to wordpress with own domain man.
2. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  I agree. More flexibility and more ownership. You should definitely use your own domain and run Wordpress off your own site. That's how I do it at opinionstreams.com
3. 7/31/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  Also google got more search results with my own domain quicker. But then, no one (like most) showed me anything about blogging so installing and tweaking wordpress was a pain but at the end it is the way to go.
4. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  That is an option for full flexibility and full ownership, correct, and a full load of constant upgrading problems. But I would suggest trying out the interface and options on wordpress.com first. You can have a domain there too, and maybe that suffices.
5. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  @latincool - I uploaded WP 2.5.1 all by myself and it was a little tedious - you're right about that! Especially since I am hosted on Yahoo!, which is by no means blogger friendly - Yahoo! still uses WP 2.0.2 and offers 0 support for people who want to do a manual upgrade. Once I got 2.5.1 up and running, though, it was worth it and I felt I'd accomplished something. I would definitely recommend running WP on a testsite before going live, though.
7/31/08

tpvswp

@latinocool
I just moved one of my domain-mapped blogs from Typepad, and my 1 month old TypePad post shows up lower in Google than the same post on wordpress.com that is only one day old after I published my wordpress.com site, before moving the domain. WordPress rules, with or without domain.

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7/31/08

latinocool79

So true, depends on how savvy you are but if you don't care about making money then go for it. I just think that if you blog is a hit then making the move would cost you to lose PageRank and google search results.

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1. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Right. With a PR3 on .blogspot.com now he will loose PR when moving to .wordpress.com (or self-hosted wordpress.org) and setting up the domain, but given WordPress' SEO that should be up and running again pretty soon. So better move now, and set up the domain asap, because the PR always follows the domain, regardless of where you put up your site.
7/31/08

aslam9895

I HAVE PAGE RANK 1/10.... AM REALLY HAPPY ....

JUST TRY LINK EXCHANGES

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7/31/08

HughBriss

How many sites have you traded links with. Your PR is based on the number of incoming links and it has nothing to do with how great your posts are or how long your site has been on the Net. If you don't have other blogs or websites linking to you, you'll have no PR.

The other possibility is that you registered a domain name that had been registered by someone before and was banned on Google.

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7/31/08

stayfamous

That brings up two good points. I was worried that moving from Blogger would hurt all the work I've put into getting that blog some attention. And the second concern I had was about just linking to other people without any purpose. I mean I want people to link to me on Technorati, but I don't want to get hurt by the search engines if they don't respect the people I've linked back to.

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1. 7/31/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  Dude make the change to an own domain before your blog is a hit and then you would lose so much. Now is the time.
2. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  Exactly, as I said above, the PR follows the domain.
3. 7/31/08
  
  HughBriss
  
  The PR would follow the domain as long as it remained the same but if he was free hosted on Blogger and then moved to his own domain and no longer a subdomain of Blogger it would kill his PR.
4. 7/31/08
  
  tpvswp
  
  That is correct. If you have aPR3 on .blogspot.com and THEN get a domain, your domain starts with PR0, but from thereon the PR will stick to the domain.
7/31/08

stayfamous

Hmmm... I think you guys are right about making the switch before the site gets any bigger though. Because if I wait and get stuck in my free domain, it will end up working against me.

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7/31/08

stayfamous

Ah, decisions.

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7/31/08

233076

pay for google to add your blog for search engine

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1. 7/31/08
  
  HughBriss
  
  Huh?
7/31/08

stayfamous

When someone favorites your blog on technorati does that help your PR?

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1. 7/31/08
  
  opinionstreams
  
  I don't think so. I think link exchanges help your PR though, at least if you link up the food chain. They also improve your Technorati authority. The people who fave you do see updates to your content (sort of like subscribing to an RSS feed) so it has benefits.
7/31/08

stayfamous

Thanks everybody for all your ideas. I really appreciate it.

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