PB earns a PR3 in 7 weeks!
Well congratulations to everyone who got a little love from the big “G” last night! I was awakened to my cell phone e-mail beeping going off the hook with everyone letting me know that the PR has finally updated and that the famous Piss Biscuit has earned a big fat PR3!
Doing it in under 7 weeks…
This blog will have been live seven weeks on Sunday and what a ride it’s been! That means we’ve brought this baby a long way from it’s ZERO and I’m eating it up like a fat kid on a cupcake. (That was for AP). Though it’s late, and I really would rather be taking a much deserved nap, I know how important this event is for millions of bloggers around the sphere as well as it is for me… so as I sit here ready to collapse, I’ve got to throw out a few congratulatory hip hip hoorays! (errr… how about props?)
The mystery that is Page Rank
Yeh, PR from the big “G” is a mystery and that means that for many just starting out, it’s a mystery of no immediate concern. However, to those of us who are avid bloggers, this little update that Google performs every three months or so can be life or death. Page Rank influences your ability to advertise, monetize, and of course in some cases even gloat a little bit. So for all of you who recived some G-Love, congratulations! To those of you who may have been slapped in the face with baby powder, keep trucking through it, you can always make a change and get right back on the bandwagon.
So what are your stats PB?
Good question… I know it’s been a long while since posting a little something about stats, so I figured I would do it now. For a seven week young blog… I figure I could share exactly what I’m doing and maybe you’ll be able to compare some notes… Good, bad or indifferent! Any way you look at it… maybe you should reconsider advertising on this bad boy!
- Average Daily Visitors: 189
- Average Page Views: 1,790
- Average Site Wide Hits: 4,762
- Backlinks: 1,129
- Alexa Rank: 332,293
- Technorati Rank: 347,083
- Stumble Traffic: 661
- Google: 238
- Yahoo: 129
Talking about what we’ve done… or not done.
To my surprise, I’ve been told to piss off on more than one occasion when talking to other bloggers about their site stats. They ask for advice… I ask for some facts… i get told to suck an egg. I’m not sure why the secrecy as I feel everyone could offer a little comparative input without divulging some super secret.
Me, I’m pretty open book and I know how much it means to fellow bloggers to have something to compare themselves to. For newbies, its a motivational tool. For old schoolers, it’s a resource for making improvements.
You’ve got homework!
That said, I’m asking each of you to write a post on your blogs about your PR update for better or worse, and talk a little bit about site statistics you’re currently experiencing.This should incite some great discussions and share in the buzz over yesterday’s PR update. Once you’ve written your post, come back and drop the link to it in the comment for all to see.
Thanks again for helping PB become the blog that it is today. I appreciate the community here maybe moreso than you know.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:00 am
I found your site on Google and read a few of your other entires. Nice Stuff. I’m looking forward to reading more from you.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:19 am
I was pr2 and still am pr2, google doesn’t like me I guess
The page rank is only for my homepage but my blog is under http://www.noafilm.be/category/blog/ and that never had a PR, could the “/category/blog/” structure negatively influence the PR?
July 26th, 2008 at 2:23 am
@ Robin: Without going into details publicly (You know why) I’d say that the structure has more of a negative influence on indexing. The trouble with indexing can directly mangle your PR results.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:35 am
I’m glad that you get that PR too, PB and in 7 weeks, that’s quiet an achievement in itself.
Yan
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July 26th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Well I have 5 active sites right now. Probably part of my problem is that I have too many sites that are all in some sort of beginning stage. Anyway they are all in the PR2 to PR3 range and have been there for a while now.
Without making things too complicated I would think to increase my page rank I need to keep posting, keep developing backlinks, and keep doing the best to develop the sites.
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July 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Good stuff PB, I must say, I am very curious what else to do to get my rank higher. I’ve heard this before, but does the links going out from your site have any effect? Like, I’ve got dofollow in my comments, so, that’s a lot of links leaving the site….I believe in showing love to the commentors, just wondering if that may effect my PR.
Anywho…as it’s stands, I’m sitting at a 1, after a little over 3 months I guess that’s cool….though, I was expecting about at 3!
I will do that post you speak of, what stats are you using? Google Analytics or sitemeter, statpress, or something else?
Good job and congrats to everyone!
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July 26th, 2008 at 10:57 am
@ Yan: Thanks bro. I’m a bit surprised honestly. However it’s another little bit of proof that verifies genuine, organic blogging is the wave of the future.
@ Coach: I’ll be putting together an article about what I’ve done here… and even though sich a great PR jump wasn’t planned I think it might be good to see my action plan in a broken down form. Stay tuned for that one.
@ JK: I use AWstats. To me, it’s the easiest. Some people like google’s system… I do not. I prefer having my stats come directly from my server… not a third party application (google & sitemeter)
Login to your CPanel and use one of those server based systems… I think they are quite a bit more accurate.
July 26th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Cool, I had looked at those…I will check it out now!
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July 26th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Congrats! on the PR. The one thing that i have not yet figured out, is how to keep the rank you get from Google.
Pagerank is terribly terribly fickle. You can lose it as easily as one gets it.
I’ve had blogs go from 4 to 3, then to 2, then back to 3. It’s crazy and annoying.
I wish it would just stay put. LOL.
Several of mine on this update, went up, some went down. Same ole, same ole.
I’m beginning to think it isnt just about backlinks, because i havent lost any backlinks, (just stopped posting on some), and PR went down. Where as on some, it went up.
Big freakin mystery to me.
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July 26th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Congrats big man. If I remember rightly thats what I predicted for you on skype one night when you were having one of your ‘whoa is me moments’ and in need of an ego stroking. Thats a great effort for seven weeks though mate. You going to stop throwing your toys out of the pram and push on with this thing now? Like a fat kid eats cupcakes….Thanks for that, you just inspired some new anchored link text for yourself!
July 26th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I’ve said it before on another post, but congrats PB.
Well deserved!
As to stats, yeah, I wouldn’t mind posting from one of my blogs… which one is another matter. More thought required!
@AP,
I love the analogies… did you read PB’s ‘this is my work station’ post and see that bottle of slimming juice? Can’t remember…
@JK,
I saw you were PR 1 and was surprised – thought you would be higher.
There is a school of thought which says that ‘dofollow’ could be bad for your comments, in that Google ranks you according to who you link to, and if too many of those links are low quality (or worse – spammers), then you could get a PR slap. This is why so many bloggers refuse to have ‘dofollow’ on their comments.
I’m still wondering about that myself…
But the jury is still very much out on that one, and I’m sure that Yan who is also ‘dofollow’ may disagree.
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July 27th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Would I disagree? Read my comment here.
Yan
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July 27th, 2008 at 1:41 am
@Zania – you know what, I’m not sure how it works, and I’ve heard that too about the dofollow, but, I’ve gotta give love to my readers, spammers get deleted and I added keyword luv to my post so now people can post their name and keyword without their name being something like ” How to get fresh bagels for $1 a dozen”
@PB – I did the post you requested, of course, I added my own little twist
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July 27th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Link love was not playing for me on my last comment so as per your request.
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July 27th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Congrats PB. PR3 in 7 weeks, that’s an achievement!
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July 27th, 2008 at 10:43 am
@Yan: Zania has yet approve your comment, so I’ll be waiting patiently to read it!
@ JK: Great video post my friend!
@ AP: Thanks for the update and the backlink too!
@ Norhafidz: Welcome to the Ol’ Pisser! LOL… Thanks for the compliment, I look forward to seeing more of around these parts!
July 27th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Whoops!
Took some time off to have a few drinks of cerveza before going into my blog and approving the comments.;)
I could set it up differently, I guess, but I like to read comments first – not to delete them (unless they are spam of course), but because I want to be able to answer them properly. I think every comment deserves a well considered answer (as PB gives here). But then I can do that so far, because I don’t get too many comments
Anyway… So I gave the comment an answer (quite full, as is my way….), but I forgot to mention the need to have akismet or some other ‘anti-spam’ device. Thanks JK.
As I said there, and here, I really think the jury is still out on whether giving out ‘dofollow’ links in comments affects PR.
But who am I to say anyway?
There are loads more out there giving advice on this who are more experienced than me. I just tend to watch what they do, rather than what they say…
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July 27th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Thanks for the post, it introduced the latest Google Page Rank change to me.
I wish the PR Mystery wasn’t mystery any more, someone could explain it, what everything is reflected by PR? My site’s home page sits on PR4 for a year, I only notice mild changes pages within. The blog is new and recent change gave nice PR’s to most posts but none to its blog-home page, must check robots.txt if it’s not disabled but it shouldn’t. What I have noticed just now, my blog is DoFollow and the PR addition took place at the posts with comments! Thank you again.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:41 am
@ Pizza Oven: Glad you’ve taken something away from your experience here at the big bad biscuit. A website that is a year old isn’t really new for the internet… it’s aging at this point. Looking at your home page, I can see why your site’s inner pages are updating and the home page is static… you need to direct the link juice and the way that bots crawl your site… you’ve to try and keep home page links to a minimum… and then add no follows to the less important pages. Force the spiders to crawl dominant pages of your site, and after a while, you’ll be able to take total control of where Google goes and what pages have what rank.
Hope to see you around for a while… we love new people!
July 28th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hi, PB:
Just a quick heads up that i’m having a 2,200 EC Credits Giveaway on Bloggers Search. Would love if you blogged about it here.
I’ll write my stats on G34 Media tommorrow about the infamous PR update. Just haven’t had a chance to do so, yet. But i will. I’m curious to know myself, the current stats.
Missy.
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July 28th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hi PB, I did disable spiders crawling to certain blog areas as I saw it logical in regards Google’s Page Rank and highlighting quality content, BUT it didn’t occur to me also home page and other static pages could benefit from this. I will do, there are a few pages actually that I could nofollow. Thank you.
BTW, forgive my ignorance; you mentioned “you need to direct the link juice” and “you’ve to try and keep home page links to a minimum”… do you suggest to have more text linking between my site’s pages and have less internal page links on the home page???
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August 2nd, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Congrats… Impressive to get PR 3 in under 7 weeks. How about sharing how you did it and some tips to go along with it?
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