How come my Alexa ranking keeps going up lately and it’s now at 305,686 but my Google PR is still blankety-blank? My site is sitemapped and verified. Guess it has to be a lack of links?
Alexa has nothing to do with your Google page rank or indexing. In fact, most any website or blog can get “into” the Alexa directory in days if not faster as Alexa simply works that way.
Getting “into” Google isn’t so easy.
I’m guessing your page rank is still at zero because your site is still in what search engine marketers call the “Google Sandbox”. The Wikipedia defines it as such.
The Sandbox Effect is the theory that websites with newly-registered domains are placed in a sandbox (holding area) in the indexes of Google until such time is deemed appropriate before a ranking can commence.
What Does That Mean Really?
It means that it’s going to take awhile for ANY new website to get into the regular Google listings.
Now, if your website is not new, and you’re not getting any Google page rank, there is most likely a problem, and one of those problems could be that you have a lack of backlinks, in other words, other websites or blogs who link back to you.
Here are a few articles to help you out on your quest for more information.
I am trying to learn how to increase my website traffic through search engine marketing. Is there a book or guide that you recommend that can help me understand how to do that?
Probably the best book out there on how to get more website traffic through search engine optimization is called SEOBook and is written by search expert Aaron Wall.
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I have a website that I work very hard on, yet I’m finding that I could use more web traffic in order to have better search engine rankings and in turn generate more business. Can I tweak my website content to better suit the search engines? Is there a guide that can help me?
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