Google Placement And PR Ranking

Panty Sellers Suffer

Google performed an update just 5 days ago, it was quite a major one in Google terms and one that saw my own site together with several other panty sellers suffer big time. Google have again changed the way they calculate search engine placement, this time around panty selling web sites have suffered at the hands of news and information sites including message boards.

Three years ago my site www.worn4u.com was positioned #1 for ‘worn panties’ searches and #2 for ‘used panties’ searches. A steady slide had been halted and I was on the way back up until 5 days ago. This prompted me to write to Google asking if I had been ‘penalised’… To my amazement, I received a nice reply and when I sent a second email questioning further, I was lucky enough to receive a second reply!!

Now there is enough business out there for us all to remain happy, however, you are fibbing if you say that positioning on the search engines is not important to you, hence why I am not willing to share everything written in the email but a couple of pointers wouldn’t do any harm would they?

It is a myth that all sites start out even, there are a few circumstances which give one site a better ‘starting’ amount of points than another, or bonus points…

UK or USA – If your site is hosted on a UK server do not expect to gain as many ‘starting’ points on Google.com searches as you would on Google.co.uk searches.

PR Rating – Firstly PR rating is not 1-10 as the green toolbar suggests, Google PR is a rating based on a very complex routine. What we see is a PR rating rounded up to the nearest whole number. This means that two different sites boasting PR4 could be up to 100 places apart. The green toolbar is a guide, it is NOT a true PR value.

Google toolbar PR is updated at a different time to actual Google PR and around 60% fewer times. If you manage to find a link on a good quality PR rated site, it is diluted for every link they have outward, that includes links to their own sites, this is another contributing factor to the toolbar being false.

Search Engines – Google gives a site that is listed in a Yahoo Category and a DMOZ category listing a higher starting value. So, if you link with a Yahoo category listed site (assuming yours isn’t) expect a higher PR yourself.

Hope this helps some

Donna