Need some help Pagerank N/A
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Hi All! We have a small e commerce site, www.ruggedpcstore.com, built on Wordpress. The home page has a PR of 3, our About page is a PR 0, and all other pages are PR N/A. We've been pulling our hair out trying to fix what's wrong. Any ideas?
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BTW, Thank You!
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I think I just solved it thanks to SEOMoz tools. More than half the pages on the site have a rel canonical pointing at the home page. It was under Crawl Notices, which I have up to now ignored.
That should explain the NA!
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Has your traffic changed?
Have your leads changed?
Is there any impact besides the number of pixels of green your have on your toolbar right now?
It could just be that your URL extension changed and things will catch up. If everything else is fine, don't sweat it.
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Keri:
The site is about 4 months old in its current iteration. It's a wordpress site, but it replaced a Joomla site. The PR N/A is frustrating us. With the home page having a PR 3, the other pages should have some PR, at least a 0.
With the SEOmoz tools, GWT, etc, we aren't getting any errors. Google is indexing the pages. I don't get it.
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Andy:
The site is about 4 months old in its current iteration. It's a wordpress site, but it replaced a Joomla site. The PR N/A is frustrating us. With the home page having a PR 3, the other pages should have some PR, at least a 0.
With the SEOmoz tools, GWT, etc, we aren't getting any errors. Google is indexing the pages. I don't get it.
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Has your traffic changed? Have your sales or leads changed? Do you have any messages in Google Webmaster Tools?
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Can anyone else answer this?
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Andy, thanks for your help, but I understand pagerank and ranking factors. The NA is indicative of a problem getting the pages indexed correctly. I have had the problem before on other sites, and it was indicative of a problem with the site's setup.
One site I was working on had the same symptoms. The home page was www.yoursite.com/directory/index.html. All of the inbound links (thousands) went to yoursite.com, no redirect to www. All of the www pages were NA and unranked. We changed the home page and redirects. Boom. PR3, and all kinds of high rankings.
After we made the changes, it took about a week for the PRs to change.
I do use mozrank, and the ranking factors from Majestic, as well. And pagerank is not unimportant. It is extremely important. It is just less important than it used to be.
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PR no longer gets updated very often, 2 times a year if you are very very lucky.
New pages these days take a while to get any PR assigned (0 counts) and to move up obviously takes longer as PR is no longer a huge thing to Google.
The attitude you are taking is not the right one to have, PR is not hugely important and you are prioritizing it. PR is a signal of link trust and it's not the best one by any length. My suggestion is you forget PR as a major factor to you and maybe use something like MozRank -http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/mozrank - which is more upto date and uses more signals than PR alone.
hope this helps
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The site is a few months old in its current iteration. i use google webmaster tools, and the site has been fetched recently after I discovered the problem. No known issues on GWT. The pages are getting indexed. As I said, the home page is a PR3. Other pages on the site should at least have a PR1. Our About page is a PR0. It should probably be a PR2.
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how old is the site in its current being and how long have the other pages existed?
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