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By: Steve Yakoban

Steve Yakoban — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:13:45 +0000

Can you elaborate on age affecting page rank a little more? Is that just because it takes a while to do everything right and improve rank or is it really that Google gives merit to being around longer?

By: binaryday

binaryday — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:07:00 +0000

@Ajith,

I completely agree with you. That was the motivation behind this post as all the seo forums seem to be propoagating this view that PR is irrelevant, which I do not agree with.

@Nihar,
The equation between PR and traffic is not that strightforward.

For example a page with low PR but highly optimized body may rank higher and hence get more traffic. Or another post may rank in the third page but target a very popular keyword and hence may get a lot of traffic.

I suggest you check out http://binaryday.com/Search-Engine-Ranking-Factors.ppt for a better understanding of factors that impact the ranking and hence target.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:05:20 +0000

Site, great post.

I have one doubt. I have seen lots of traffic on my blog post which is not at all ranked by PR.

what is the relationship between PR of a page and its traffic?

By: Ajith

Ajith — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:47:25 +0000

When I take a look at my search hits landing pages, it’s very clear that those pages with good PR are mainly getting hit (unless we did a Google Trends based short term traffic targeting). So toolbar PR is still important. Moreover, still many monetization tools (reviews, text link ads, private ads) depend on it. Most of us will be doomed if Google PR becomes irrelavant as many small blog’s existence is around the above mentioned monetization tools… AdSense alone won’t be a long term solution.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:17:01 +0000

yes, it does have a house number. Does that have any implication?

One thing which i “debugged” is that i was planning to shift to wordpress. So, had created another blog with the same content. After getting adsense rejected, i deleted the blog and re-applied. They still rejected it.

Is there any thing like “adsense support” where they could pin point to the problem?

By: binaryday

binaryday — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:33:10 +0000

@Prashant,

I am rather surprised as your blog is more than 1 year old and your content is much better quality than most useless blogs that have nothing but adsense as content.

About the postal address thing, does your address have a house number?

By: Prashant

Prashant — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:18:33 +0000

@ Admin and Pavan

I replied 4 times! Got rejected all the times with following reason codes (from first time to 4th time):

1. Unacceptable site content
2. Issues: Postal address incorrect or not provided
Or Unacceptable site content

3. Page type

4. Postal address incorrect or not provided Unacceptable site content

It seems the one thing is common – the content of my site is not okay as per google standards.

What is the solution to this?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:48:39 +0000

@Tarun
I think the different pagerank theory is not a speculation but a reality. However the difference is primarily because of timing difference except for cases where google has given a pagerank penalty to the sites it suspects as selling links.

@Pavan,
I am trying to investigate in a step by step manner and develop some tool to identify the reason for such penalty. Will apply for reconsideration if I do not succeed in some more time.

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:35:23 +0000

Buddy, did you apply for reconsideration? I don’t see any reason for them to penalize you. What do you feel? I hope an application would work as you have much quality articles.