Why Is My Google Page Rank So Low & My Alexa Rank So High?
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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.
PageRank Explained – Keeping SEO Simple
Alexa Traffic Ranking Versus Google Page Rank
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December 11th, 2008 at 8:34 am
I think it is far easy to have good Alexa ranking without much effort but getting Google’s attention is much harder. Perhaps we don’t have any control on Alexa but we can make some strategy to be in Google’s good book.
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January 27th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Another thing is that PR isn’t really _that_ important. I got many sites with 0 PR, but they still score high on some important keywords and sentences. But yeah, PR is a good tool.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:40 am
I used to get really confused over this too. But now I understand that Google and alexa are calculated in two completely different ways and I think it’s a really good thing that one isn’t influenced by the other.
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July 16th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Alexa rank have nothing to do with pagerank..pagerank is based on the quality of backlinks..
Alexa rank is not very accurate since they starts are based on users that use their toolbar.
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August 22nd, 2009 at 4:51 am
Alexa is barely worth worrying about. It’s basically a ranking of traffic to sites purely based on people who have downloaded a thing called the Alexa Toolbar – which is considered by many many people to be spyware, and which is could be argued is only used by certain types of people (ie – not very tech savy).
Re google, just work on building your links and ensuring you content is non-spammy, and you should get there eventually – but it does take time!
March 21st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Hey, came across this blog on google and have added you to my reader account. Just opened my alexa account due to this blog!! Thanks
April 7th, 2010 at 7:51 am
Alexa does more than just report stats of toolbar users. Sure, it uses the toolbar to indicate a lot of things, but I believe it uses that as an “average” and compares the percentage of those who use the toolbar to the internet community as a whole.
I believe it does a fairly accurate ranking of a website’s popularity as opposed to Google’s page rank — which is a highly secretive system and doesn’t really work for the end user so much as it works for Google’s internals.