PageRank???
We launched 2 websites around the same time (6 months ago). One site
has not been updated since then, has just a few small pages (NO Links
page, NO reciprocol links), and gets about 2 visitors a day. The other
site gets updated daily, has tons of content, a lot of quality
reciprocol links, is set up in Google AdWords, Overture, Yahoo,
BCentral, gets about 500 unique visitors a day, ... but both sites
have the same PageRank (4). Why are they ranked the same ???

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 28 Feb 2003 13:08 PST

Could you post links to your two web sites?  That might help one of us
to find the answer.

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Clarification of Question by dontknow-ga on 28 Feb 2003 16:42 PST

Site 1: http://www.titan-solutions.net
Site 2: http://www.baseballcorner.com

Hi, 

The $2.00 answer is that neither site shows significant value to the
Internet community, or at least equal value. It could be argued that
the value of the baseball site is high to those consumer types, but
this doesn't rate an information value to the Internet community.

Updating often isn't really a "value" added to PR. The content on the
baseballcorner is quick quips, most not complete sentences and the
vocabulary used is pretty low, all of which shows a dot.com type site
and not an information type of site.

A PR of 4 generally means that your site is put together with some
level of skill, there was enough content on there to rate a "real"
website, and could possibly be of interest to some people on the web.
It's a good rating for what you have there. At a PR of 4, outside
links begin to have an effect on the page as well, at PR 3 or less,
links from or too other sites don't have a heavy weight in my
experience. Basically a 4 says "okay, it's a real site, let's see if
the Internet community feels that way as well"

Your titan-solutions.net doesn't have a PR at all right now, and it's
probably going through the Google Dance. The Google Dance is the
monthly process of assigning PR to websites. Your may fluctuate a
great deal during the next couple of days, going from null to 5. It
will be done by the end of the weekend probably. I only throw this in
here so you don't panic :-)




Things to read.  
 
Google Webmaster page, read everything on here and all the pages
linked to it, pay very close attention to the Do's and Don'ts and "Why
isn't my Page listed" areas.
://www.google.com/webmasters/ 
 
Here's a good page to read on getting lots of visitors and improving 
your PR 
http://www.searchengineworld.com/misc/guide.htm  
  
Here's another one about the Google Engine   
http://www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm  
  
To learn more about Page Ranks, go to :  
://www.google.com/technology/index.html  
and   
http://www-db.stanford.edu/%7Ebackrub/google.html  

Thanks, 

webadept-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by dontknow-ga on 01 Mar 2003 08:01 PST

If your answer is correct, that it pertains to the `value to the
Internet community`, then I`ll buy it, along with a comment to the
PageRank people.
Who is the Internet community?
Shouldn`t search results pertain to a particular search, not on some
generic
value to the `Internet community`. I'm sure you have hit the `next
page` button
as much as any of us in the internet community while searching a
particular
topic. And, I'm sure we've all seen PR 6 and 7`s that don't deserve to
be on
the internet...
PS. I still see titan-solutions.net at PR/4 (probably doesn't deserve
to be on
the internet - but don't tell anyone).
PPS. Thanks for the links. I'll continue the never ending SEO course.

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 01 Mar 2003 09:14 PST

you are welcome and good luck in your continued education. 

webadept-ga