How long does it take to get a page rank?
So you’ve just started your site and you’re trying to get some traffic. You know that one of the most important ways of doing that is by getting yourself a good page rank. (Your page rank is part of what will determine whether your site comes up as #1 for a certain key word, or whether it comes up as number 208,836 on the list.)
You may have been adding your site to directories wherever you can and posting comments on blogs and forums…anything you can find. Every day you check your page rank is still at 0! This can be very discouraging and may make you think that your efforts aren’t doing any good. Don’t get frustrated, it can take a while to get indexed in the search engines, and even longer to get a Google page rank. Google only updates their database once every 3 months or so, this means that it could be months before your efforts will make a difference.
Jason and I are experiencing something like this at the moment. Since Foximus is a relatively new site, we have been trying to get a page rank for ourselves over the last little while. It has almost been 2 months now and we are still sitting at 0! The last Google update was at the end of April. At that time we had been commenting on tons of blogs and thought we had enough links to give us a decent page rank. Little did we know that most blogs have a nasty little thing called a nofollow tag on all links posted with a user comment. This means that the search engines will not follow your link and it will not count as a backlink to your site.
It is now a month after the last update and we still have another 2 months to wait before the next google update. We will have to wait a while so we are taking the opportunity to learn from our mistakes and we’re making sure this does not happen again. We are adding our blog to as many directories as we can find and posting to blogs that we know have installed a plugin called DoFollow that will allow the search engine to follow comment links. We have this plugin installed ourselves and encourage everyone to post comments on any of our articles.
Don’t be discouraged if you have been working your butt off and nothing has happened with your page rank so far. Google is not the the only search engine out there and there are other ways to measure your site’s popularity. Technorati, Alexa, and Yahoo seem to be much easier to get results out of and your efforts are reflected in your ranking a lot faster.
Another reason that we might not be ranked yet is because of the google sandbox.
Just keep at it, focus on getting the links and your pagerank and internet fame will all come in due time.
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Hi, that is exactly what i have been thinking. I have set up lots of sites, but none are above 1. I hope you eventually get a pagerank.
Harry
Comment by Harry — May 25, 2007 @ 1:57 pm
Thanks for the comment Harry.
We have actually set up a couple other sites and hardly did a thing to market them at all. They have been up for about a year (maybe less). One of them is at PR2 and the other is at PR3 those are not huge numbers but it’s more than we have now with Foximus and we have done a lot more to market this site. Because of this I think maybe a large factor in getting a page rank is time.
Comment by Aimee — May 25, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
Hi Aimee,
It can be so frustrating that Google doesn’t update often. Glad you became a dofollower. If you’d like a link you can comment at Pajama Professional!
Comment by Sara — May 25, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
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Pingback by Website grader - How does your blog score? | Foximus — May 26, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
I got a PR only 3 1/2 months after starting my blog. That was in late January. So when should I be expecting the next one?
Comment by Culture Shiok! — May 27, 2007 @ 2:31 pm
Hi Culture Shiok, the next update should be in about 2-3 months so I would really focus on getting those links before that time comes.
Comment by Aimee — May 28, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
There’s a lot more to getting traffic from google than waiting to see a visible page rank update.
Your page rank is constantly being adjusted by the big G, they only update the changes that everyone else can see 3-4 times a year.
The other thing to think about with a new domain is the google sandbox, might take a while to get out of that for you too.
Goodluck.
Comment by Ted — June 3, 2007 @ 1:55 am
Hi Ted, I didn’t know about the sandbox effect, thanks for the tip!
There is an article about the google sandbox here for those who are interested.
Comment by Aimee — June 4, 2007 @ 12:33 am
I think the last google update was beginning of May and many people are saying that the next update should come in August.
Comment by andy — June 10, 2007 @ 11:22 pm
We see the same thing with many of our clients. Yahoo seems to respond the fastest to our efforts, followed by MSN then Google (eventually).
Comment by James Dolan — June 14, 2007 @ 8:13 pm
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Pingback by Stat update: Foximus website grade | Foximus Internet Business Blog — June 19, 2007 @ 11:32 pm
One month later, you still seem not getting a page rank… My site is younger so guess I’ll have to wait longer.
Comment by Sleeping Dude — June 22, 2007 @ 12:32 am
Well, from what I understand page rank is only updated once every 3 months so I think we have to wait another month and a half before it gets updated again.
Comment by Jason — June 22, 2007 @ 8:37 am
Do you know any future page rank calculator?
Comment by Andy Barcellona — June 28, 2007 @ 8:23 am
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Pingback by What’s stopping me from getting a page rank? | Foximus Internet Business Blog — July 3, 2007 @ 10:52 pm
Thanks for the tips. I thought that I will always stay at zero. Now I understand that it takes a while. ;D
Comment by Furious Photographers — July 9, 2007 @ 4:23 am
Thanx a lot as I was also worried about page rank. And I was not knowing how much time does it really take to get a page rank. Thanx a lot. Great post.
Comment by Jayadrathsingh — July 13, 2007 @ 3:00 am
Great article! It reminds me to be a little more patient. Started a blog about 20 days ago. Google webmaster tells me it’s been indexed, but I don’t see it on the SERPs (at least not in the first 100 results). I guess I can attribute that to my lack of a pagerank.
Comment by Violet — July 13, 2007 @ 8:35 am
You have to check out this interview w/Vanessa Fox of Google regarding pagerank/site maps (Google Webmaster)!
http://www.dlperry.com/googles_vanessa-fox-on-sitemap.html
Also check out my site and comment at my eduspaces blog (Brent).
Comment by Brent — July 18, 2007 @ 10:53 am
Great article. I have been trying to build PR for http://www.bellaok.com for what seems like forever and nothing has moved. At least I know why now.
Comment by Tracy — July 20, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
I have the same problem.
Changed my site, writting in a way that it would pop up for my selected keywords. But it takes long before the ratings shows. Also I made many inbound links, but they don’t show up as well. (maybe on the way as well hehe)
What was a good thing is that when I started changing a lot, google noticed and they gave me the option to crawl faster in the webmaster central.
Let’s just hope they will update soon.
Comment by 2deep — July 23, 2007 @ 11:11 am
hey this is great. this is exactly im going through. thanks a lot for all the advice.
my site is: http://www.pulasthi.info
Comment by pulasthi — July 31, 2007 @ 3:08 am
Thanks for clearing it up. I thought Google only updated PageRank every so often. My one site went from 0 to 3. I have just started my http://www.technicallyeasy.net blog so I won’t be expecting a PageRank for some time.
I’ll just keep getting listed in directories and leaving comments on blogs and forums.
Comment by Paul — August 16, 2007 @ 11:07 am
Well my site is about 2.5 months old, hope to get pagerank soos since it’s 0 at the moment. The iwebtool did predict a pagerank of 3 on the next update so I quite excited to see the results.
Wish me luck
http://lovedirectory.blogspot.com
Comment by The Love Directory — August 17, 2007 @ 9:39 am
Hmmm, how can I find out wether a forum or blog uses the DoFollow plugin?
Comment by IT-Globalized — August 19, 2007 @ 3:33 am
Hi guys
Thanks for the info on page rank. i’m guessing google still haven’t done the august update on page rank yet. My new website http://best-buy-mortgages.co.uk is also not showing a page rank yet. Good luck everyone for when the update does happen.
Comment by marlon — August 24, 2007 @ 6:37 am
Hello me again
sorry i also wanted to say. Does anyone have an opinion on how google views reciprical links with regard to page rank?
i’m open to reciprical links on my site http://best-buy-mortgages.co.uk but don’t want to do it if its going to have a negative effect on my ranking.
thanks again guys
Comment by best mortgages — August 24, 2007 @ 6:43 am
I have just started my blog 2 months back. I’ve heard PR update is going to be done this month. But still don’t see any sign of it.
This is my blog http://blog.webgk.com and I’m much curious to know how much PR will it get, as I don’t see any prediction tools are working right now. Can anybody tell me by reviewing my site. How much PR shall be given to it?
Thanks a lot.
Comment by webgk.com — August 25, 2007 @ 12:14 am
Yeah I’m still waiting around for the ranking. Guess it takes more than a few weeks! Ok…back to focusing on content writing!
– Raymond
Comment by MONEY BLUE BOOK — August 27, 2007 @ 2:01 am
That Google is difficult to rank high on, is all the more reason to go for it. Aim high etc. Our site’s finally got a 2…after a very long time…but hey! We’re getting somewhere. Yaay.
Comment by MP — September 4, 2007 @ 3:52 pm
The repro links is tricky with the new system they have.
The main rule you should keep in mind is:
The inbound link to your website should come from a “high-ranked” and “good” website.
With good I mean, related to the thing you have (or writing about) on your website.
Because just inbound links from any website, that has nothing to do with yours, they will see as link catching (or dont know how you call the effect).
An incoming link from a website that has, in some way, a relation ship with yours will give you much more points than a link from any website.
I think sometimes you even get penalty points.
Comment by 2deep — September 7, 2007 @ 1:15 am
Thanks for the info. I was wondering why it was taking so long to get a page rank from google. It’s been 28 days since I have had my new site http://tccondomap.com up and running, but still nothing. Hopfully there will be and update soon and we’ll be seeing that number change from 0 to at least 1
Comment by Nicholas Gray — September 7, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
i have also been having the long wait for my site
http://www.mypicstudio.com to gain page rank.i see google crawling my site everyday,but no pagerank.as someone posted above being patient is what i think i will have to be.
Comment by chris — September 24, 2007 @ 2:40 am
I’ve submitted my site, http://www.altutors.com about 1 month ago and am so impatient. No page rank yet.
Comment by Ruth — October 10, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
i have seen changes in my PR and its is true to say that the google system is now updating, at http://www.googlebugs.com there are results and stats that show this has happened.
thanks
aks
Comment by akshay — October 11, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
Thanks for the tips! I’ve been toiling away for 2 months now and was starting to get worried myself. Feel free to comment about my new site http://adventuresinhosting.com
Comment by Adventures In Hosting — October 23, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
Does anyone have an idea roughly how many backlinks it takes to start getting a page rank. My mortgage website http://www.best-buy-mortgages.co.uk has been indexed by google for several months but doesn’t have any page rank yet. i’m guessing because i don’t yet have many backlinks. if you want to link to my site ( http://www.best-buy-mortgages.co.uk ) feel free. if you add me as a link and send me an email i’ll add your site as a link on mine.
Comment by Best Buy Mortgages — October 25, 2007 @ 6:15 am
First time PR updated for my blog.
I am glad, my design blog http://design.webgk.com got PR 3.
Comment by web designer — November 2, 2007 @ 2:16 am
I have seen changes in my page rank but it goes from 2 to 1 back to 2 and keeps repeating I really dont know why I submitted my website http://www.myhiphopclothing.com in August
Comment by Shaun — November 12, 2007 @ 4:19 am
I have the same problem as the writer of this article. My site has been up for about 3 months. I have over 300 bakclinks and I’m still at PR0. I do however have the number 10 spot on page one of Yahoo for a key word. I hope google changes my ranking soon.
Comment by Sleep Aids — March 18, 2008 @ 12:33 am
Man, sometimes it seems like google is taking longer and longer to update their PR’s, but here is something i have found out over the last few weeks.
Since more and more people are now only commenting on blogs that state they are do-follow compliant i see a lot of blogs with the ifollow logo on their site, just for show. when they really don’t have those plugins installed.
So on purpose they are misleading people……
Comment by raymondm — March 30, 2008 @ 11:14 am
Glad I found your blog! my site is still on 0 after starting my website http://www.dogswithstyle.com back in nov 07…I paid someone to do some SEO work on my site and they have told me to be patient to see any change in my PR…. that was back in dec…when oh when will i see a change? sometimes I feel like giving up! but its only that i refuse to be beaten that I dont! I have started to add recip links to my site, but have since learned that this alone will not change my status and could even some links could be bad for my site… Help……..seems as if there is loads of hurdles!!!!
Comment by melanie — April 6, 2008 @ 9:42 am
Yeah I am working my ass off trying to get this PR up. Hopefully it will be soon!
Good Article.
Comment by Erik — April 7, 2008 @ 4:09 am