Google Page Rank Issues and Directory Structure in WordPress? Please help!

  • pseudorant

    (@pseudorant)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    I am wondering if anyone can help me figure out what is going on here. No one was able to offer an answer for my original post so I am hoping someone out there might know why this is happening.

    On the main page of my blog the Google PR icon in the toolbar shows as “WHITE” with a 0/10. This makes sense because no one is really linking to my blog. (According to Google, but the wordpress dashboard reports a few links going to some posts.)

    Now if I go to an individual article that WordPress reports as being linked I don’t even get the “WHITE” PR icon in the toolbar, I just a “GREY” button. I believe this has something to do with the directory structure?

    When I check on Technorati which has archived the variations of post slugs on my site (which I was asking about in my original post) it shows several different page addresses for the same topic. Example

    News – Blog Launch Announcement – Hosting, Domain, and WordPress !!

    http://www.pseudorant.com/?p=12

    The first link goes to a version of the page where the PR icon is “WHITE” like it will accept ranking data.

    http://www.pseudorant.com/blog-launch-announcement-hosting-domain-and-wordpress/

    The variation of the link goes to a version of the page where the PR icon is “GREY”?

    (EDIT: If you right click on the link and select “Open in New Window” you can see the PR issue happen

    Unfortunately all the pages that link off my main page for people all show up “GREY” like this??

    I would really like to be able to get page rank on all the pages people visit or link to and not just the main directory. I have considered just doing a traditional website, but I would prefer to continue using WordPress to manage my site. It’s just there are so many weird issues with the way it setups the directory structure?

    This issue is also similar to my original post about how these multiple instances of pages seem like an issue of “duplicate content” and will I get penalized from Google because of this? Anyone that has any insight into this I would love to hear your thoughts on that matter. I really need to get this fixed, it has been driving me nuts.

    Thanks..

    My Technorati post duplicates:

    http://technorati.com/blogs/www.pseudorant.com?posts&page=4

    My main page which links to all “GREY” PR for articles:

    http://www.pseudorant.com

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  • haochi

    (@haochi)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    If PR is that important to your site, consult a professional.

    Your site has only been around for, what, two months? Don’t expect to have any PR value showing up on the toolbar that fast.

    Also, watch what your site’s linking to {read: look at the footer}.

    By the way, WordPress have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with your site’s PageRank on Google, it’s the site’s content that make the difference. Also, go ask SEO questions on a SEO forum, this is WordPress Support.

    Alex Cragg

    (@epicalex)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Just to clarify what Haochi said and to answer your questions more directly, the ‘WordPress Directory Structure’ has no impact on your PR. Your homepage links to posts, just as with any other non-WordPress site.

    Regarding your question about duplicate content, the two permalink structures point to the same place, the content isn’t there twice.

    On to the grey vs white issue, a quick google search brings up the fact that if it is white, but with 0, then it indexed in google, just doesn’t have a 1PR yet. If it is grey, it has none, even those articles that have links to them: don’t forget, you don’t get PR just for a link, the linking page needs PR too. Hovering over the grey bar shows you the text ‘No PageRank information available’ – this is often the case with new posts

    Hope that helps, but as Haochi said, these are SEO/Google questions, not WordPress

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