I launched my website in late April and yesterday I finally got a pagerank. :) I was starting to get anxious. I got a 5/10 pagerank, which isn't bad.

Anyway, I'll be posting info and screen shots about my game later this week. But I just wanted to get that off my chest. :p

I thought a 5/10 pagerank was pretty good. To my surprise, my site has jumped from 4/10 to 5/10 recently as well.

What's a page rank ?
:o

Try searching Google ;)

My site also got a page rank. Everything except the links page. And that is what needs it most of all. So I have to wait another 3-6 weeks for google to upload IBL and PR.

So yeah, I'm a little curious too. I'm guessing it has something to do with your page rank when searching a particular set of words.

And telling someone to just search google is about as helpful as kicking them in the nuts, seriously now.

I reached 5/10 rather quickly. 6 seems to be the magic threshold that's hard to reach.

Yay, I just checked my site and I got a 6/10 rank. Happy!

And telling someone to just search google is about as helpful as kicking them in the nuts, seriously now
Well actually my 'search Google' comment was supposed to be a subtle way of explaining Page Rank is a Google invention - hence the wink smilie on the end.

But obviously it didn't come across like that :o

When someone mentions the name of a website or product or whatever, I google for it and usually find it within a few seconds. I noticed, however, that many people "demand" that you give them the correct URL. Obviously, half the time when I refer people to something I don't know the exact URL and I would have to google for it myself. Do these people really expect me to do all the work for them, or -- and this is what I am wondering about -- do these people not know how to use search engines, are they not comfortable with them, or what is it that infuriates people when you tell them to "google it"? I have seen this too many times to chalk it up to laziness. I am interested in this answer, since it sounds like a nice business opportunity :).

Originally posted by Matthijs Hollemans
When someone mentions the name of a website or product or whatever, I google for it and usually find it within a few seconds. I noticed, however, that many people "demand" that you give them the correct URL. Obviously, half the time when I refer people to something I don't know the exact URL and I would have to google for it myself. Do these people really expect me to do all the work for them, or -- and this is what I am wondering about -- do these people not know how to use search engines, are they not comfortable with them, or what is it that infuriates people when you tell them to "google it"? I have seen this too many times to chalk it up to laziness. I am interested in this answer, since it sounds like a nice business opportunity :).

If they are too lazy minimize there IM and open their web browser, they are definetly too lazy open their wallet and get their credit card, or checks...

I run mozilla so I can't get the google toolbar thingy, but I found this page:
http://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php
that serves up page ranks for site that you type in.

Unfortunately I couldn't find something similar for alexa's page ranking number.

Simon.

Interesting, I had no idea what a page rank was either. I fired up IE and installed Google bar and my page has a 3/10.. I take it that it just increases over time with traffic to your site?

Ugh...for some reason my pagerank dropped to 0/10 on my homepage :mad: It's weird because all the other pages (such as games, news, forum, and etc) are still 5/10.

Usually you only get the dreaded 0/10 if you do something really bad or underhanded such as creating invisible keywords on the page. But I haven't done anything like that.

Also, I typed in "Pow Pow Great Adventure" in google and I got a bunch of gaming news sites that posted articles on Pow Pow (which is good). However my site isn't even listed on the first ten pages of results and we make the friggin' game!

Oh Google why do you spite me?

The same story (by the year ago Chris) - write to Google and(or?) wait one and half month. Should I describe you how nervous i was in that times? :) No - I think you can imagine... ;)

All another efforts had no any sense to fix the situation - that's why I'm writting this - spend yours on the game.... :)

Hope this helps somehow...

Andy
WildSnake Software
www.wildsnake.com

Hehe thanks. :) I was thinking about writing to Google, but I figured it would be pretty pointless.

I guess I can handle a lower pagerank, but it's really annoying me that my site doesn't even show up at all when people type the name of my game in the search engine. Oh well...

In another thread (I think in the ASP newsgroups) someone else mentioned the same thing. Sure enough, my own pagerank is 0 too. Apparently Google is fiddling around with their algorithms again. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

In another thread (I think in the ASP newsgroups) someone else mentioned the same thing. Sure enough, my own pagerank is 0 too. Apparently Google is fiddling around with their algorithms again. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Ah thanks for bringing up that ASP thread Matthijs.

Um... Google is in the middle of the google dance. It's fiddling around with PR and updating backlinks/rankings/PR/ and all kinds of other stuff.

Chris_Evans, why should your site show up? The other sites have more backlinks, a better keyword density, etc...

If you got 100 backlinks to your site with the anchor text being "Your Game Name Here", you had your game name in your title and description and keywords, and you had it a few times on your page, you'd be number one for your game

Good point. I need to add my game name in the title and description on the game page. I'm surprised I neglected that.