Can someone tell me why my site doesn't have any page rank? 
We hired an SEO consultant to revamp the site and made specific
changes to comply with Google SEO. We also have quite a few sites
linking to us with PR. Our site has been up for nearly a year and
still has no page rank. I'm wondering if there might be something
technically wrong with what we are doing. We are aware of link farms
etc. and don't subscribe to these tactics.

The Website is www.GPSExplorer.com....

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Request for Question Clarification by larre-ga on 03 Dec 2003 10:16 PST

Could you give us a few examples of inbound links? Google is only
showing a couple from bizrate/lycos. Also, what exact URL do your
inbound links use? Do they include the www or just the site name (i.e.
http://gpsexplorer.com ) ?

The difficulty may be something as trivial as your domain name, which
has the word sex in the middle. I've occasionally seen a similar
problem with sites whose domain names inadvertently contain adult
terms.

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Clarification of Question by td99-ga on 03 Dec 2003 11:26 PST

Interesting about the "sex" thing is there any way you can get a
definitive answer on that from Google?

Here are some inbound links and where they point to:
http://www.navmanusa.com/dealers/online.html
(Points to: http://www.gpsexplorer.com/)

http://pfranc.com/projects/g45contr/beans.htm
(Points to: http://www.gpsexplorer.com/)

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22gpsexplorer.%2Bcom%22
(This link will show you all sites that contain the term www.gpsexplorer.com)

-Thx!

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Request for Question Clarification by larre-ga on 03 Dec 2003 12:27 PST

The search you specify produces sites which contain the term
www.gpsexplorer.com, however, the links that Google is using to count
toward page rank are shown using the Backward Links function of the
Toolbar, as shown here:

://www.google.com/search?q=link%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gpsexplorer.com

which turns up only 32 links. Of course, only backward links with
PageRank of 4 or greater themselves are shown. Pages with PageRank of
3 or less may also contribute minute amounts of PageRank, but won't be
listed.

The problem isn't the inbound links or mentions of the URLs
themselves, but transfer of PageRank vote to the home page via
internal site linkage, and thereby, conferring PageRank to the entire
site. I can point you to instructions which explain how to maximize
PageRank from incoming links.


As independent contractors rather than employees, GoogleAnswers
Researchers don't have any special insider knowledge of the Google
PageRank algorithm, except as we've acquired as professionals in our
own fields. We don't have preferrential access to Google for
questions.

My observation about adult terms in domain names comes from annecdotal
experience with another such domain name and website. A hyphen was
added, the old domain name retired with a permanent redirect.
Promotion activities resumed, with much increased success.

To acquire the best opinions in the business, and maybe even a
confirmation of their hypotheses by an official Google member, I
suggess you join WebmasterWorld forums and pose the "adult term
keyword as part of a domain name" question there. Membership is
required for posting privileges. Our Research Guidelines don't
encourage us to post questions elsewhere on the Web on behalf of our
customers.

WebmasterWorld Google News Forum
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/

Please let me know if you'd like to learn more about PageRank and
internal linking.

---larre