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[girl]

Is the page showing up for your targeted keyword phrases? That's what you need to have happen, not get a PageRank.

Jill

i am getting ranked....for some keywords even between 1-9.....but not for any of my choosen keywords!.....the keywords i am getting high ranks for google seems to have choosen on its own.....and btw i am getting more traffic from yahoo then from google....and i havent paid for a yahoo listing

[torka]

Yes, any text that appears on any of your pages or in the anchor text of a link pointing to any of your pages can potentially be a "key word" -- if by that you mean a word or phrase that somebody types in and your site shows up in the results.

That's the way Google, Yahoo, et.al. work. They don't just look at your keywords META tag, or count the number of times certain phrases show up on your page and only "use" the ones that appear more than once, or the ones that appear in the page TITLE tag or whatever. They index everything that's on your pages. Most of us have had the experience of our sites showing up very high for oddball phrases that you have to wonder why anybody would ever type them in to a search engine in the first place.

You can't specify which key phrases your site will show up for to the exclusion of all others. That's the "trick" to SEO -- research the words you really want to show up for, and get as high as possible in the results for them, while minimizing your chances of showing up for irrelevant or unproductive terms. It's not as easy as it sounds.

As to Yahoo, you're probably showing up in the Yahoo Search results. You can get included in Yahoo Search free, just as you can with Google or MSN or any other "regular" search engine. That's different from the Yahoo Directory (which you have to pay for to be listed). There are some who speculate that a Yahoo Directory listing can give you a boost in the Yahoo Search listings, but I don't know that it's been conclusively proven, nor can anyone say for sure how much of a boost (if any) it would be.

--Torka

[JamesW]

I have now liberated my browser of the Google PageRank guess-dicator.

Cheers

James

[girl]

YEAHHHHHH GOT A PAGE RANK.......................of 2 ....wow!

[disgust]

it could just be that it's on a different datacenter the next time you checked... I wouldn't panic, check back again in a week or even a month and see if things return.