Comments on: Joining Google’s PageRank N/A Club

By: Do Comments Help Pagerank?

Do Comments Help Pagerank? — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:41:54 +0000

How much will leaving comments on others’ blogs help with your page rank? Virtually none.

By: mikecn

mikecn — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:47:40 +0000

Give me lots of thinking , I have PR 4 few months ago , and now it is N/A . Pure blogspot blog, I need to do something. hehe

By: Laptop Briefcases

Laptop Briefcases — Fri, 21 May 2010 01:15:41 +0000

Sorry to hear about your PageRank problems. Just remember that the toolbar PR is simply a number that mostly only affects advertising appeal. It is very common for a PR3 site to have no internal pages with PR. It's simply because your internal pages don't have enough good backlinks. To resolve this minor issue, you need to either build more deeplinks or work at building your homepage to PR4+. Good luck, but remember that traffic & search engine rankings are more important than the toolbar.

By: Web Your Name

Web Your Name — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:23:07 +0000

Web Your Name® still has a ton of N/A or technincally N/R (not ranked) pages. It seems like Google withholds PageRank data during an export just to keep the 'guessing game' going. I don't believe pages are N/R despite the toolbar saying so. If it has a link internal or external and is in the Google index, than it has PageRank in my book. Web Your Name® also has been studying this phenomenon for a while, and has determined its just a secrecy ploy. Congrats to Keith on expanding his digital territory, I now have another site to harass him on ;=) J/K. Good post.

Oh, don't forget to Web Your Name®.

By: JoeColleen

JoeColleen — Thu, 20 May 2010 03:11:48 +0000

Yikes! I'm afraid to go look at how many n/a pages I have. During the last PR update we dropped 1 digit across the board. Our rankings remained unchanged however. But the ego was little hurt! [grins]

By: Josh@Markesbery Movers

Josh@Markesbery Movers — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:41:09 +0000

Hi, just thought I’d chime in with a couple thoughts: Google generally doesn’t like when you have anchor text links to all your pages in the footer. They call it footer spam and sometimes hand out a small penalty for it. Another reason might be the Friends page itself – if most of those blogs are linking back to yours (which they are, since you comment on them and leave your link) it may be perceived as basically a link network. And that’s also frowned upon by Google since the links are not occurring “naturally” (by people linking to you of their own free will, rather than you leaving your own link somewhere.) So maybe those things are contributing to your N/A status…

By: pat testing manchester

pat testing manchester — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:49:40 +0000

Google pagerank isnt the only factor they use, its probably not even worth worrying about as they keep moving the goalposts and changing the way sites are ranked eg on load speed.

You could spend ages getting a high pr for them to decide they arent using pagerank any more.

By: Brian D. Hawkins

Brian D. Hawkins — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:58:01 +0000

Wow Sheryl, I think you may have found the problem. I looked up link rel=”canonical” and it looks like it’s a tag Google uses to handle duplicate content. See Specify your canonical.

I had a hell of a time figuring out where it was coming from. I could see it in the ‘view source’ but it wasn’t anywhere in the header or pages. Then I found a little tick box under the ‘All in One SEO Plugin’ options for canonical url. It was checked

I unchecked the box and will do like you said and add/change content and re-ping the pages. It looks like that applied to all pages, including post pages.

I hope you know how much you are appreciated Sheryl. I was very nice of you to look over my site like that. Thank you

By: Sheryl @Blogger Forum

Sheryl @Blogger Forum — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:21:24 +0000

Hey Brian, I wanted to stop in & say Thank You for the links & the compliment. I commented on your Extreme Ezine FaceBook Fan page because of some things I was reading about getting it authority. But, I don’t think my comment helped your page much. I think only post made by the page gets spidered & not comments or post by others. LOL!

Oh well, I still can’t figure out why in the ^%#$ even your Friends page is not cached. It has 1000 links & it hooked at every post via the bar. Yet, other pages are cached with almost no links. You might try editing it & putting a new 200+ word part at the top & repinging it. You will also notice that your Friends page has – link rel=”canonical” – I think that tells G that it is not to give rank because this tag is used for duplicate pages. You will want to look into that as, I am not sure right now if that is the issue. My brain is mush!

Oh as for the PR – LMFAO! Cait has a site with 3 post & only hardly any links (none worth much) & it got a toolbar rank of 1. Might just be G giving out an atta boy for starting a new site.

By: Brad@Pest control companies in Alberta

Brad@Pest control companies in Alberta — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:28:01 +0000

The N/A club suggests your page is not ranked, so it indirectly suggests that maybe your website is relatively common, particularly if the website is new. Give it some time or you can try any of the unethical means to try and get your page ranked among the high ranked pages.