Unranked

[earthlovers]

I'm new and I've searched for 'unranked' but there doesn't seem to be any info yet.

My new site has nearly everything 'unranked' by the Goog page rank, thus far. Will having such links on my template leak age rank to unranked pages where it is wasted? Is it better to nofollow these urls until they gain rank?

thanks

[SmallBizShift]

Don't bother nofollowing internal links - Google says it's useless, and even if it does something, you have bigger problems if nothing is ranking.

Google usually picks up at least your homepage very quickly, so if it's been more than a few days and that's not showing, you might want to look at your robots.txt and make sure you're not stopping Google from viewing the site (or if using Wordpress, make sure the site is set to be viewable to search engines).

A second step is to visit Google Webmaster Tools. You can submit a sitemap there, and there are tools to help diagnose why your site is not being crawled.

Finally, if you do have some bits indexed, work on getting a few decent links to your site so Google will crawl/index more of it.

Also, if you post the site here we could be more helpful. There are other issues which might be causing problems, but I don't want to go into that much detail for a simple post.

[earthlovers]

I've setup webmaster tools. indexing is progressing okay, but PR=unranked.

I've made my own software (very amateurish!) for a site template, but have just discovered several 'blogging without database' services - which would save me a lot of unnecessary expense.

I'll ad a link once i qualify!

[TravisPetelle]

Your PR will be unranked for a long time. They only change that once a quarter. PR is starting to dwindle as a factor in Googles algorithm as well. It's still playing a part right now but that's just for the backlinks that you get back to your site. I have plenty of PR 0 sites that are ranked #1 for the competitive terms.

You need 3 things to get good rankings: Site optimized for your keywords, backlinks back to your site, and some daily activity. When you have all three you will jump up in rankings very quickly.

[earthlovers]

thanks for the info Travis. I'm relieved PR doesn't matter, cos it was giving me a headache!

[davidbkeegan]

I know this probably isn't the most reliable source out there, but I read the article about page rank on wikipedia, and it was very informative.

It had a link to the Google support forum saying not to stress out about it:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...e26e9e48&hl=en

I trust that link a lot more than i do wikipedia

[Social-Media]

Originally Posted by earthlovers

I've setup webmaster tools. indexing is progressing okay, but PR=unranked.

I've made my own software (very amateurish!) for a site template, but have just discovered several 'blogging without database' services - which would save me a lot of unnecessary expense.

I'll ad a link once i qualify!

A Google Toolbar PR of unranked simply means that the last time Google updated the Toolbar PR (which is typically every few months) that your page was not indexed. The Google PageRank that you see in your toolbar is ALWAYS out of date, even on the very day an update is published. It's also NOT the PR that Google uses in their ranking algorithm. There is a separate "actual" PR is updated constantly, but you never see its value. It is this "actual" PR that is used for ranking purposes.

Just continue to build links to your home page AND inner pages. Your Toolbar PR will take care of itself.

[BC-Rob]

Originally Posted by Social-Media

A Google Toolbar PR of unranked simply means that the last time Google updated the Toolbar PR (which is typically every few months) that your page was not indexed. The Google PageRank that you see in your toolbar is ALWAYS out of date, even on the very day an update is published. It's also NOT the PR that Google uses in their ranking algorithm. There is a separate "actual" PR is updated constantly, but you never see its value. It is this "actual" PR that is used for ranking purposes.

Just continue to build links to your home page AND inner pages. Your Toolbar PR will take care of itself.

What he said. Just base your results on the results themselves via rankings and referral traffic from the search engines, the PR is practically useless - and is only a very minuscule guideline to see how you're doing over time (and by time I mean months to years).

[Rick41]

Just build your website for your customers and make sure each page is optizimed for the search engines (including your meta tags) and everything will work out.

Google changes how they rank sites all the time so just work on building pages instead of wasting time looking at stats.

[jaairey]

My understanding is that nofollow (except for things that you really do not want the bot to follow such as affiliate links) is a bad idea for ranking. Internal links can help make your site look coherent and user friendly and useful. Lots of orphan pages do not help a site.

Is this perception correct?