Google page ranking (part 2)

[a11rex]

Hi,

Just wanted to say thanks to all those that contributed and gave advice to part one of this thread.
We took on board all of the tips and incredibly from a standing start back in February we have acheived PR3 literally overnight, I had a look at our site yesterday and it had PR0, this morning it has PR3!

Another quick question though. Our nearest competitors have PR4 and this puts them at or near the top of any Google searches when our keyword is entered. Having done a search on the keyword this morning we are still no where to be seen (I went as far down as page 10).

Does it take a while for PR to be converted into search results, or are we missing something else?

Take a look at our site Timber Frame Homes

Thanks again

Edited by a11rex on Saturday 28th April 09:53

[hut49]

There seems to be a fault on your webpage - it doesn't appear to fully load. Tried it several times, same result.

[Plotloss]

Theres more to Googles organic rankings than PageRank annoyingly.

PageRank indicates the weight of referral quality when a link is found between two sites. So whilst you may have 5 inbound links for a specific keyword all from PR3 holders people further up the organic results may have 50 PR3+ inbound links for that keyword. PR from a website owners perspective is an indication of site quality rather than absolute relative rank.

[hut49]

FWIW I just tried it again and it still stalls trying to load the last item...

[Xenocide]

It's a flash page. How is google supposed to read something that is encased in a swf?

[andy_s]

Works fine from here - there are no meta headers/tags - don't know if this is important?

[a11rex]

Thanks for the comments guys.

The current site was done in Flash to get something up, my son knows how to use Flash so it was easy and quick.

We have an HTML site in the pipeline.

The META tags etc. have now been added.

[philthy]

I found that google's page rank went up and down for me for a few months, until settling down.
As a nice surprise, I just checked mine again, and my forum has gained another point.