Google is a mystery to me. The home page of this site has had a Page Rank of 2 for quite a while. Right, now, if you check out my links on Google, it shows the same ones that I’ve had forever, bu somehow I suddenly have a page rank of 4!
I have been working on generating more content on this site (like the semi-regular blog postings). As part of that, I installed WordPress, which I supposed search engines might like. I’ve also been generating some incoming links by posting a couple things on Slashdot and various other places. In addition, I’ve noticed that I’m slowly getting a few more people that have installed my speedtest, which has a link to this site.
I guess everything is working. Now I need to start doing this to the sites that I make money from 🙂
Did you create a Google Sitemap recently? I’ve seen that to help quite a bit. If you did, when you installed WordPress you lost it. I use this plugin for automatic updates to my sitemap on all my wordpress sites:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
Thanks for the info Kevin. I’ve just installed it, and it seems to be working well. I especially like the ‘auto ping Google’ option. I don’t know if I warrant a page rank of more than four, but we’ll see if it makes any difference.