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Why Is My Google Page Rank So Low & My Alexa Rank So High?

February 18, 2007 By 13 Comments

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

I highly recommend these two products from Dr. Ralph Wilson, web marketing guru.



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  • http://www.achando.net Leonardo Medina

    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.

    Leonardo Medinas last blog post..Pousada Natalli – Cabo Frio / RJ – Brasil

  • http://www.bagger.no/ryggsekker/tursekk Billig Tursekk

    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.

  • http://www.ginismagic.blogspot.com Gini

    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.

    Ginis last blog post..Creating Soft Selective Black and White Photographs

  • http://niceblogger.com Nice Blogger

    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.
    .-= Nice Blogger´s last blog ..Are directory submissions useful? =-.

  • http://www.adproducts.com.au Promotional Products Guy

    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!

  • http://www.wheredidmywagego.com/forum.php Joe

    PR is all about links.

  • http://karlconnell.com/DublinCityVibe/ karl

    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

  • http://www.back2basicsmarketing.com/blog Back 2 Basics Marketing

    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.

  • http://www.directorysubmission.tv Andy

    You can have a high alexa rank with the worst possible content site, you just need traffic. Google page rank is based on quality, quality content, quality on page SEO, quality links.
    .-= Andy´s last blog ..Directory Submission =-.

  • http://www.guitarzonline.com John Sizemore

    Well, I’ve now had my site for 6 months and my PR hasn’t moved passed 1. I know I have a quality site with many quality backlinks. How long of a wait in the sandbox is it? Plus, high PR sites are reluctant to give you a backlink if your PR isn’t high enough. So, I believe PR is important. At least for linking partners.
    .-= John Sizemore´s last blog ..The Power Of Music =-.

  • http://www.redfishmarketing.com.au Elizabeth Morgan

    I also have the same problem, but I was reading through other forums and also this one that Alexa and Google rank is completely different. It’s so hard to have a high google rank. I agree with Andy, you really must have a good quality.

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