The Saga of Google PageRank (PR)

In my attempt to become a more well-rounded web person, I've been learning about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Sometime over the last month or so, my sites lost all their PR (Google's PageRank number). Yes, I'm feeling somewhat dissed. Yahoo has been doing a great job sending me my few visitors but Google doesn't seem to like my sites. (I am working on a new initiative for my Egyptology information that I'm excited about.) Anyway, for the last few days my FireFox plug-in hasn't registered any PR ratings for any sites. All the message boards were abuzz with "this is the end of PageRank". Maybe that's a good thing (to at least stop exposing it to the world) because people were measuring you up by the PR you got even if it didn't seem warrant (or if you felt unjustly unrated). So after a few days of a PR outage, it's back. My sites are still at 0. They were at 2 or 3 before. Content, must work on content.

If you build it, will they come??? Here's to hoping. I did add a site map to this site to see if that helped with spidering any. I'm not sure if they found the link yet. The advice was to keep it in the footer. So I did that. I setup Movable Type to recreate page each time I drop in a new entry. It totally makes sense. Let's see if the search engines find and use it.

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