My site has been around since mid july and I still have a 0 page rank and I even have a few backlinks with pagerank of 3. Is this normal?
Also, does a high page rank mean you will be placed higher up in the search engine results, or is that just a measurement of backlinks? and is there any way to check the behind the scene pagerank?
My site really took off in the first 14 days, I was getting great traffic and sign-ups, then ever since july there hasnt been a single sign-up and barly any traffic and I dont get how to make it better, its really frustrating since i worked for countless hours like hell putting up hundreds of pages of original content and not a single visitor for weeks at a time and all the major search engines including MSN havent indexed or updated my site in many months, it shows all my old pages on the search engine. The sandbox pisses me off and making me broke.
It just seems strange because i was doing so good at one point and then it all went to crap. Do you think this is normal or could there be some kind of foul play going on like my site being banned or a single bad backlink that crippled or got my site banned on all the search engines? My site is optimized fine, no spam that i know of and i havent used cloakers or any of that risky black hat stuff.
Thanks, Ryan