stuck at PR0

[texcited]

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on why my site, http://www.gardenoutfitters.com still has a PR0? I have numerous links directed at my site, and I think I'm following all of the rules. I have numerous other sites that have decent page rankings, but this one seems stuck at 0. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks,
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[mm99]

I took a careful look and everything seems to be in order. I googed your site for links and found 0. I did a meta search and you were in the very good range. The reason your're having a pr problem is because you don't have anyone sig linking to you.

A possible solution would be to throw a link on your other sites that are doing well, and that should increase your pr on the site in question.

peace...Paul

[ronniethedodger]

I don't know what mm99 was looking at, but Google has quite a few links they are aware of that are linking back to your site. Over a 100 of them at least. But they are just not showing up in the link: query.

Plus AllTheWeb is reporting 171. You also have Yahoo directory listings as well as two DMOZ listings. So there is no problem with linkbacks.

Why Google is not reporting them with the link: query is unusual. Especially when you have so many of them.

By the way...this image is missing from your site http://www.gardenoutfitters.com/gologonew2.gif . It was referenced at http://shop.solardirect.com/links.php?lPath=6 and you are getting the little red X for that image.

How long has your site been up? WhoIs says that you registered the name February last year.

Has your site ever had any PR at all?

Have you been crawled by Googlebot yet (look at your logs)? A search at Google does not reveal any pages in it's index yet.

Your site is not ZERO according to my Googlebar, it is BLANK....not ranked yet.

Do you have any relation to these sites?

• www.Fenced-in.net
  www.Fencesupply.net
  www.Gardenoutfitters.com
  www.Lockcart.com
  www.Outdoorfence.com
  www.Stanco-inc.com
  www.Stanco-inc.net
  www.Stancogarden.com
  www.Stancovinylfence.com
  www.Thefencestore.net

If so...how are they doing?

[jackson992]

I have noticed that running the utility for multiple search engines as well. Googles seems to be really low compared to all others. Just do a search on one of my domains and you should see what I mean.

P.S.

What do you guys use to look at your logs. I tried viewing one in notepad and it was a mess

[ronniethedodger]

I have noticed that running the utility for multiple search engines as well. Googles seems to be really low compared to all others. Just do a search on one of my domains and you should see what I mean.

Google is always lower. It is only a representative sample of the links that they have indexed for any given site. They do not show a majority of them with the site: query.

If you want to know what Google is aware of then do this query at Google ---> +"www.domain.com" with the quotes and the + sign.

For analyzing server log files people use software that will do that for them. A popular highly recommended Open Source analyzer is AWStats which is a free download.

I use a commercial analyzer myself called Sawmill.

[mm99]

When you are talking about links to your site, if you use the "links:bla bla bla" it shows nothiing. This is because goog will not bother listing anything that does not have page rank that is low. What ronniethedodger is refering to (perhaps) is typing your url into the locater and your utl will come up by itself. If you then click:

"Find web pages that contain the term "gardenoutfitters.com""

you will see a whole bunch of stuff. They don't count them as links to the site, you simply did a search and it found you listed any number of places.

peace...Paul

[ronniethedodger]

you will see a whole bunch of stuff. They don't count them as links to the site, you simply did a search and it found you listed any number of places.

Those are linkbacks either way you look at it. And a lot of them match up with the links that ATW is showing to. And the search shows that Google is aware of those links.

Google does not report all links. There is a cutoff that some say is based on the PR of the page, but nobody really knows that. Then some theorize that they only show a certain percentage of those links. The plain fact is they show us only what they want to, and the reason is not as you put it "They don't count them as links to the site, you simply did a search and it found you listed any number of places" which is absolutely not true.

Just because they do not show up in the link: query does not mean that Google does not consider them links. They do consider them as links.

All of that is a moot point in this person's case anyway and you are not helping in determining what his problem is.

The problem is that he is not indexed at Google at all....and therefore the traditional link: query will not work. To Google (from what I can see) this site does not exist in it's index.

[jackson992]

What is the purpose of the thing he has in his meta robots tag? I'm not familiar with that

[ronniethedodger]

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">

It instructs the robot to index the page and to follow all links on the page. It is actually not required because the default behaviour of all robots is to index and follow anyway.

[fathom]

<meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW">

It instructs the robot to index the page and to follow all links on the page. It is actually not required because the default behaviour of all robots is to index and follow anyway.

To add to ronniethedodger comments -- it is useful when deleting/moving pages by using "noindex, follow" before changes are made so Google will drop the URL and visitors will not see a 404 error.