{"id":110,"date":"2006-09-30T00:13:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/110\/google-pagerank-update-at-last\/"},"modified":"2006-09-30T00:13:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T16:13:25","slug":"google-pagerank-update-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/google-pagerank-update-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Google PageRank update at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after a long 3 months of waiting!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The results are out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Inspiration\" title=\"Inspiration\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0609\/inspiration.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p>The results aren&#8217;t exactly how I expected, but this is what I&#8217;ve achieved.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com<\/a> (you&#8217;re looking at it)<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PageRank PR3. Current Alexa ranking: 116,781<\/p>\n<p>(Fairly decent, considering I was PR0,  Alexa 2m+ about 3 months ago).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"InternetMarketingCookbook.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmarketingcookbook.com\">http:\/\/www.InternetMarketingCookbook.com<\/a> (a content site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PR0, Alexa: 818,262<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"BizExcellerator.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizexcellerator.com\">http:\/\/www.BizExcellerator.com<\/a> (another content site)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PR3, Alexa: 718,908<\/p>\n<p>I learned a couple of things from this exercise.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tools like <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"iWebtool.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwebtool.com\">iwebtool.com<\/a> are at best a predictor of PageRank.<\/p>\n<p>According to their ranking, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com<\/a> was slated to hit PR5.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the guess was way off.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the participants at the Digital Point forums said as much, refering to such PR predictors as akin to horoscopes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I know.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the more interesting point is how InternetMarketingCookbook.com and BizExcellerator.com fared.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been working on both of them at about the same time and they both have about 60 pages of original content each.<\/p>\n<p>Then why did one hit PR3 and the other stay at PR0?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my guess.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond just original content, it&#8217;s also the nature of the content.<\/p>\n<p>For InternetMarketingCookbook.com, it was an aggregation of content, albeit original, of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas for BizExcellerator.com, although the content was in a protected area, the content was much more compelling (Register for the free course if you haven&#8217;t already done so, at: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Best Kept Business Secret\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizexcellerator.com\/The_Best_Kept_Business_Secret.html\">The Best Kept Business Secret.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Race\" title=\"Race\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0609\/race.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p><em>Is this the end?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hardly, the Google updates can be expected about <strong>once a quarter<\/strong> and it is an ongoing process to build up your Google PR.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This will ultimately help you rank higher in the SERPs.<\/li>\n<li>Bring in more traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Trigger your adsense, affiliate marketing or other Internet Marketing strategy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Till then, the race continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, after a long 3 months of waiting! The results are out! The results aren&#8217;t exactly how I expected, but this is what I&#8217;ve achieved. http:\/\/www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com (you&#8217;re looking at it): PageRank PR3. Current Alexa ranking: 116,781 (Fairly decent, considering I was PR0, Alexa 2m+ about 3 months ago). http:\/\/www.InternetMarketingCookbook.com (a content site) PR0, Alexa: 818,262 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,22,27],"tags":[166,1766,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}