Page Ranking vs SEO

purple

purple

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Can you have a decent page ranking but not show up easily in a search?

I've been building my SEO skills with a couple free hosted blogs and one has a PR of 2 but doesn't show up in the first page of a search due to a UK band having the same name as the blog, its on page 5. If I add blog to the title it comes up though on the first page.

Is it more important to focus on searchability than page rank or will they even out over time?
 
It is very possible to be able to have great page ranking and not show up on the first 10 pages of search engines.

I think it is more a question of opinion. I personally think that searchability is more important unless you are in a hurry to sell text links.
 
It's a combination of the two that will help. The better rank, the higher up on the list you are.

However if you don't use SEO at the same time, keywords wont matter as much in an organic search query, and the PR becomes relatively less useful.
 
I'm not in a hurry to sell links, but I have been trying to navigate through payperpost which requires a decent page rank to get any jobs. I'm rather a turtle about SEO and obviously have a couple years against me with this band. I'm not really sure whether or not I'll be able to circumvent them in the search rankings just yet but I'm trying.
 
From my experience of Google, Page Rank does matter. Page Rank also means how important your page is and so the higher the page rank the better off you are in getting a higher listing.
 
If you're not competing with the band site at all, maybe suggest to them a reciprocal link? On your site, you'd have a link that says: "Were you looking for the [blogname] band? Click here." On their site, they'd have a link that says the opposite.

They might not agree to do this, but I've seen that sort of thing before.
 
It makes complete sense that PR doesn't mean much. If you have a name that is common for your domain, then there could be a dozen sites, or more, with a better PR than you that has a similar name. You'd perhaps need to get a little funky with your keywords?
 
Yes I have seen this trend too. And this is a little puzzling. I have seen sites with much lower link backs and pr and still fare very well on keywords and searchability. Frankly this is something I am not at all clear about.
 
Well PR doesnt measure the Site Quality but the link-quality, for one thing. Everybodys target here is to make it to the top-of search engine indexes and when it counts to that, PR doesnt matter. SEO helps alternatively to link-building
 
Yes, i agree with that .

The more external links to our website, the more page rank it will be. But this have to depends on the timing because Google just update the page rank 1 or twice per year.

So it require a lot time and preseverance to build a good page rank.
 
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