2007-06-14T11:23:37-07:00 Practical Ecommerce info@practicalecommerce.com http://www.practicalecommerce.com/ Copyright 2007 Confluence Publishing DBA Practical Ecommerce http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment3061 2007-06-14T11:23:37-07:00

Not many shop sites have a gazillion dollars to get a PR9, I'm a little guy. Those PR9's are an exception brought about by lot's of money.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment2246 2007-05-20T16:31:59-07:00

Mike A, you are incorrect. Amazon.com has a PR9. Ebay 9, Gap 7 and my site DelightfulDeliveries.com, which competes in the same category as Gifts By Delivery, has a PR6.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1223 2007-04-13T08:12:29-07:00

If you did your research there aren't many shopping cart websites that can achieve a higher PageRank than that.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1145 2007-04-09T13:54:22-07:00

Along the lines with what Jestep was saying, Matt Cutts (works at Google) posted awhile back about the differences between hyphens and underscores from an SE's perspective: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1144 2007-04-09T13:18:08-07:00

The difference between underscores and hyphens, using the phrase: search-engine vs. search_engine Hyphens are normally interpreted as a space. search-engine => (Ex: search engine, two words) Underscores are often interpreted as a non-space character. search_engine => (Ex: search_engine, one word with a non-space _ character in it.) If you use underscores instead of hyphens, there is a chance that a SE would interpret it is a single word and not as two words. Since the word search_engine doesn't mean anything, there would be less key phrase relevance in that aspect of the site. It probably makes very little difference, but may matter some.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1140 2007-04-09T08:15:08-07:00

I was wondering why underscores are worse than hyphens in the category page names. What is the difference?

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1118 2007-04-07T18:38:39-07:00

Hi Mig, Which of "my" sites are you asking about? The home page of my company's site (Netconcepts.com), fluctuates between PR7 and PR8 (currently showing a PR7). Remember, PageRank is logarithmic, so that is orders of magnitude greater than a PR4. If you are referring to Practicalecommerce.com, that isn't my site, that is the magazine's and Netconcepts has not optimized it. Their site has a PR5 on its home page, but that PR, which is reported by Google's toolbar server, is months old and likely is an underreporting of the current true PageRank used by Google's ranking algo. I say that because of other indications of trust/authority for Practicalecommerce.com, such as, for example, the #7 ranking in Google for "ecommerce articles" (out of 14 million) and #37 ranking (out of 67 million) for "ecommerce". Now, back to Giftsbydelivery.com. The *site* does not have a PR4. Each *page* has its own PR. The home page is a PR4 -- which is *much* lower than a PR5 due to the logarithmic...

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/453/SEO-Report-Card-The-Google-Death-Sentence/#comment1093 2007-04-05T08:13:32-07:00

Most of your points are very good, but I don't see what's the problem if the site's PR is only 4. That's a great score if I look at your report card! Your site's PR is only 5 and for a site with so much quality content and so many good inbound links, this is rather low. How would you grade your site? I am really curious.