I was pleased to discover on Monday that the page rank for this site went up from a PR4 to a PR5. Yeahhhh!
I know some of you might not follow Google Page rank, but if you have a website you should know that Google assigns each site a certain level of page rank. This is a measure of the sites popularity. We all start out at zero, but as our sites age and we start to get some links from other sites Google takes notice and assigns a page rank to our sites. A page rank of 5 is pretty good.
If I keep working on producing quality articles for this site I could see it going to a PR6 or if I was really lucky maybe even a PR7. I think PR6 is a realistic goal. I’d have to do a lot of hard work to get it up to a 7 but of course, that’s possible too.
Right now this site is in a directory of my main domain feverishthoughts.com. What I’d really like to do is move this site to it’s own domain. Unfortunately, now that this site is gaining some good PR it’s a little harder to leave that behind to start all over again. I did however purchase a domain two weeks ago for this site. It’s called homeandgardendiva.com I haven’t even uploaded a blogging program to the site yet so it’s pretty much a dead site. I think I’ll work on that site for the next few months and hopefully the next time that Google comes around assigning page rank to everyone it will gain some PR and maybe I’ll move the posts from this site to the new one at that time.
What would you do?
Wow, Tricia, attaining a PR5 is awesome! There’s no way I would give that up… I’m not sure how you could even consider such a thing!!!
No, seriously: whenever this subject comes up on the boards, most of the experienced bloggers say keep your site and just start a whole new blog on the new domain.
At any rate, congrats on the big 5 🙂
-J.E.
Thanks J.E. I’m really happy that this site made it to a PR5, but don’t get me wrong I’m not planning on up and moving the site.
I’m going to work on the new domain – blogging on it once or twice a week and promote the heck out of it and then when it’s at least a PR4 I might move it all over, provided that this site isn’t even higher by that time!
I’ve had websites for 17 years now. Getting a PR5 isn’t all that hard. When I create a site I list it in every directory that I can find and optimize it for the search engines and start to develop my keywords right away. I’ve been at this a long long time. Some of the stuff people are doing on the forums are quick fixes and I don’t think they worked (ie the 200 blogs thing).
When I make my move I’ll put forwards on this site to transfer over to the new site. It won’t take long to get the PR back up to whatever it is when I make this sites move. The people that moved their sites from blogger to a new domain should have done that too but I really don’t think they did.
I really am happy that this site made it to PR5. I hope that what I’ve said above doesn’t make it sound like I’m not. 🙂 Thanks!
No, what you said here in the comments makes a lot of sense — now I understand what you mean. At first, I thought maybe that $2,500 opp made you a little loopy….lol 🙂 🙂 🙂
I am going to take some of your advice about blog promotion and start listing my sites in major directories. Thanks! – J.E.
What I see with your PR is the ability to sell advertising from a company that sells links on high PR sites. I have been looking at this for a while and it seems a good PR site can command many dollars per month just for the one link. Apparently you put up ten links and bang, there is a nice monthly income to buy the coffee to keep you up to post. Well done. I had a PR rise as well and its all about linking, quality and seo work. I personally love it. To the point I wish I had my adsense income up high enough to do this full time. Love your site.
TerryG