After nine months of waiting, GEORYL finally was given a page rank by Mr. G. Yipee!!!
It was just page rank 1 but, for me, it’s already a great feat. I had produced two page rank 3 blogs before (each took less than 3 months to earn the rank) so it really puzzled me that GEORYL can’t even get off the PR0 ranking despite all the efforts I put into it.
Considering that I did almost the same strategies (and even more) for this blog, I concluded that the reason for having no page rank must be due to the fact that this is a self-hosted WordPress blog… or I got a penalty.
WordPress vs Blogger
Subdomains of blogspot generally earn page rank more easily than self-hosted WordPress domains. Since Blogger is owned by Google, whatever SEO strategy, file structure and other factors that are used by Google as the basis for page ranking are naturally implemented at Blogger (dot blogspot dot com sites).
Blogger’s Advantage Over WordPress
The fact that subdomains have their own page ranks doesn’t mean that the other subdomain links don’t count. The .blogspot.com name provides the blogs in Blogger a common denominator – creating a network that makes it easier for search engine spiders to crawl and discover as compared to domain names that have random links only here and there.
Among the differences between Blogger and WordPress blogs stated above, the only one that I could control or change were GEORYL’s WordPress files (I can’t be under Google/Blogger and although I have a plan as to link generation, it’s really up to other web masters whether they’ll link to me or not).
I did a thorough research on the matter and had some surprising discoveries that caused me to do some drastic changes to GEORYL.
(to be continued…)
congrats to Georyl.com ! 😀
thanks caroline. 🙂
Oh I thought it’s the other way around. Somebody told me once that gaining a page rank through a WP blog is easier than a blogger platform blog hehehe. I think it all depends on your strategy and of course the traffic. Got 3 P# blogs now and 1 PR2, weeee, thanks Mr. G.
you could always optimize your site for SEO at wordpress. problem is a few bloggers (including me) don’t take advantage of this especially when they are used to the post and forget style of blogger. with wordpress, andaming pwedeng i-set na mga options, minsan nakakatamad ding kalikutin. hehe.
anyway, congratulations for the success of your four blogs. grabe, di ko kayang magmaintain ng ganon karami. hehe.
congrats to us sis… finally hehehe.. hope ma improve pa natin.
thanks sis. congrats to you too for the PR2 ranking. sana next update, mas lalo pang mag-improve.
i meanang mga pr ng blogs natin. 🙂
my other blog too sis.. in fairness binigyan din ng PR..LOL. madalang ako maka post ngayon but definitely i’ll get back ASAP. me dahilan naman. i’ll tell you sa YM.
good luck on the U.S. move. sana manalo ka sa casino hehehe
sensya na kanina sis. very active ang social life ng lolah mo dahil despedida dito, despedida doon. hehehe. nasa pinto na ako nang pumasok ang message mo, buti na lang may signal pa ang wifi sa labas ng bahay kaya nakareply pa ako sa YM.
anyway, congrats and good luck din sa “our life as parents”.
salamat din. di naman ako magkakacasino sis, poker lang. hehehe. problem is, hindi siguro ako marunong sa live kasi kahit sa online lang, kapag nasa akin ang nuts, nanginginig na ako. hahaha.
congratulations georyl! i was inspired by you to improve mine 🙂 thanks!
thanks divine. yeah, you can do it. go go go! good luck.
Congrats sis! I know you desrve it..title pa lang ng Blog mo my puso na..
congrats din to chubskulit..
Actually nangangapa pa ako sa mga pinagsasabi nyo..hehehe..marami pa akong mga term na dapat maintindihan sa blogging world..and i always learn something in every post meron dito sa Georyl..
Keep it up sis!
thanks sheng. don’t worry sis, you’ll learn it sooner and later especially now na nagiging active ka na sa blogosphere.
just be sure na wag kang maaddict nang husto gaya ng banidad days sis, hehe. may iris at bbg na tayo. hehe.
Congratulations Gee!
I don’t know much about algorithms but I have always believed that Google PR updates were based on backlinks. My blog Lainy’s Musings is a self-hosted wordpress blog under Windy’s webhost. Prior to it being transferred to his webhost, its platform is Blogger which got a PR of 1, 2 and 3 in that order when it had its updates. When the blog got hacked, I had no other recourse but to transfer to WP,thanks to Windy’s ceaseless proddings.
I lost the PR 3 then after only a couple of months of doing some paid reviews for one particular affiliate. Incidentally with the recent PR update, I got my PR 3 back despite yours truly in hibernation and in effect my blog’s inactivity. I have lost quite a huge number of traffic (from 30K plus to 100k plus).
This made me think hard even more. Numbers, numbers. For us who earn some moolah for writing paid reviews, it does matter.
thanks lainy, congratulations to you too.
backlinks are important but it’s not the be all, end all way to achieving PR.
as for Windy, he’s really a nice and generous guy. i’ve only “met” him recently in the blogworld but I can feel that he’s one of the real persons in the blogworld.
My two blogspot blogs still don’t have any page rank although I’ve been back in active status last Aug 2010 yet nothing happens despite the strategies that I have. Although my personal blog had zero already.