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	<title>Comments on: PageRank goes up, search results go down</title>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Barry. I wasn&#039;t really suggesting that the PR increase had caused the search rankings to fall, just pointing it out as a bit of an oxymoron :) Interesting to know that the toolbar&#039;s value for a pages PageRank is only very approximate though - I always just assumed with it been an official goggle plug-in that it was the de-facto PR.

Cheers for pointing me in the direction of the adwords keyword tool too. I&#039;ve used it in the past but it looks like it&#039;s had a major overhaul since I last used it.

I&#039;m also already registered with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Google Webmaster Central&lt;/a&gt; too, but thanks for the hint anyway. There&#039;s no red flags in there so I do genuine think it&#039;s just the content/category re-jig that&#039;s thrown my rankings down the pile for now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Barry. I wasn&#8217;t really suggesting that the PR increase had caused the search rankings to fall, just pointing it out as a bit of an oxymoron <img src='http://www.richardhinchcliffe.com/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Interesting to know that the toolbar&#8217;s value for a pages PageRank is only very approximate though &#8211; I always just assumed with it been an official goggle plug-in that it was the de-facto PR.</p>
<p>Cheers for pointing me in the direction of the adwords keyword tool too. I&#8217;ve used it in the past but it looks like it&#8217;s had a major overhaul since I last used it.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also already registered with <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard" rel="nofollow">Google Webmaster Central</a> too, but thanks for the hint anyway. There&#8217;s no red flags in there so I do genuine think it&#8217;s just the content/category re-jig that&#8217;s thrown my rankings down the pile for now.</p>
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		<title>By: Barry Mills</title>
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		<dc:creator>Barry Mills</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Richard,

Your rankings certainly haven&#039;t fallen because your PR has increased. But you shouldn&#039;t take too much notice of the pagerank in the Google toolbar, it&#039;s very approximate and only updated now and again. Your real pagerank, which Google uses to help rank the site, is a much more complicated logrithmic score that is updated frequently, but never made public. An upward trend in the toolbar figure is a positive indicator, but it&#039;s far from definitive.

Content is much more important, and it is more likely the content changes that have made the difference. There&#039;s a lot you could change for the better and you might want to have an SEO specialist give your site a once-over. There&#039;s lots Google may have taken a dislike to, including the sheer size of the home page.

If you want to know who searches for what the quickest place to get an insight is here
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
That will tell you search numbers on the Google network for the previous month.

I also recommend you register with Google Webmaster Central and check to see if you have any penalties before proceeding with further optimisation.

Sorry to see you&#039;re booked up, we could have done with you this month, but keep up the good work. Hope all goes well with the baby.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Richard,</p>
<p>Your rankings certainly haven&#8217;t fallen because your PR has increased. But you shouldn&#8217;t take too much notice of the pagerank in the Google toolbar, it&#8217;s very approximate and only updated now and again. Your real pagerank, which Google uses to help rank the site, is a much more complicated logrithmic score that is updated frequently, but never made public. An upward trend in the toolbar figure is a positive indicator, but it&#8217;s far from definitive.</p>
<p>Content is much more important, and it is more likely the content changes that have made the difference. There&#8217;s a lot you could change for the better and you might want to have an SEO specialist give your site a once-over. There&#8217;s lots Google may have taken a dislike to, including the sheer size of the home page.</p>
<p>If you want to know who searches for what the quickest place to get an insight is here<br />
<a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal" rel="nofollow">https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal</a><br />
That will tell you search numbers on the Google network for the previous month.</p>
<p>I also recommend you register with Google Webmaster Central and check to see if you have any penalties before proceeding with further optimisation.</p>
<p>Sorry to see you&#8217;re booked up, we could have done with you this month, but keep up the good work. Hope all goes well with the baby.</p>
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