As I mentioned in my previous post, you need to be able to track and monitor yor page rank in the popular engines and and I found this great free tool to help you accomplish that task called Smart PageRank.com. This service has some unique features, some of which include:
-Email sent automatically if PageRank is updated
-Checks if PageRank is valid
-PageRank from multiple data centers
-Checks PageRank with and without "www"
-Displays number of backlinks, alexa ranking, and DMOZ links.
-Mini buttons to display your PageRank
-Weekly offers for related services
-Thumbnail of website
- 100% free
To access all these features such as the email notifications, you need to sign up but it's all free. Another unique feature of this Page Rank Checker is that is pulls ranks from multiple data centers. This is important in that many times, you can see changes coming for your site before the ranking actually changes and apply this to your site before the changes actually take place.
This is something Google has often done in the past as they get ready to release new PR algorithms and it's nice to be able to be able to see the pending changes and be able to predict with at least a small bit of reliability where you will be sitting after the next round. If all the scores from each data center are the same, you can rest easy that your PR is not changing but if you start seeing multiple reports with a number up or down from the rest, you can surmise that a change is likely coming your way.
The email feature is great too as you will always be aware of where you are what's going on with your site. Sign up today, it's free!
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Have noticed that you page ranks are falling and you can't figure out why? I had this happen to me about 3 months ago on my main website at http://www.wm8c.com/ and even though I have been able to regain most of my traffic since then, I am still being penalized by Google at this point both in page rank and in smart pricing for AdSense. I was at a PR5 and am now at PR4 although the prediction tools show getting back to PR5 soon and hopefully up from there. So why do I think that is?
Well the honest answer to that question is that I'm not totally sure at this point. I can how ever tell you about something I did at the time that I think contributed to it. I got greedy and I decided to add a bunch of recycled content for AdSense use on my site. What's wrong with that you ask? Nothing in itself, except that I broke two rules that I should have avoided. First I used PLR content, and second I added about 3000 pages within a few days which sent the robots into an indexing frenzy and later a de-indexing frenzy, which included some from our home business pages so it was a double whammy on sales and earnings.
By the time this all shook out, I had lost some prime pages from the Google index, and fell in earnings to about half of my November levels. It's taken about 3 months to get back near where I was. Two things I will suggest, add content slowly, no more than maybe 10 - 20 pages at a time, and if you are going to use non-original content, try to avoid adding them in a well established site as sub-directories or sub domains. It can only degrade the main domain and ratings. No one totally understands all of this but we can learn from changes we make as I have on this one.
Technorati Tags: Page Rank Loss, De-indexing, Duplicate Content
