Sitemaps - confused

We've had our website up for nealry 13 years and still have a PR of two, and no Alexa ranking. Not that I'm an SEO by any stretch but I can't seem to figure out why. I've used a couple of sitemap tools since we don't have one, and they all come up with just our homepage and nothing else.

We did have a flash homepage which I got rid of. Am I doing something wrong?

What's the URL?

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Originally Posted by TommyMac5

We've had our website up for nealry 13 years and still have a PR of two, and no Alexa ranking.

Does PR count for anything anymore?

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Originally Posted by Houston

Does PR count for anything anymore?

I haven't seen anything suggesting that PageRank is no longer a major factor in Google's Algorithm.

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Originally Posted by TommyMac5

We've had our website up for nealry 13 years and still have a PR of two, and no Alexa ranking. Not that I'm an SEO by any stretch but I can't seem to figure out why.

IMO Toolbar PR is for entertainment purposes. For most intents and purposes PageRank is about inbound links [quality, quantity, etc.] to your website. If you're seeing a Toolbar PR2 the first variable to check is the number of links pointing to pages within your site from other sites. You can check this using Google's Webmaster Tools.

Alexa traffic rankings are a different animal but are still IMO for entertainment purposes only.

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Originally Posted by TommyMac5

I've used a couple of sitemap tools since we don't have one, and they all come up with just our homepage and nothing else.

To see which pages of your website are in Google's index use the "site" operator when performing a search.

Example Search: "site:www.yourdomaingoeshere.com"

I agree with SpeedRacer. PR and Alexa traffic are fun toys, at best. What you really need to do, is get a decent web analytics program like Google Analytics, awstats, or Urchin. Use it to monitor your traffic, see where your visitors come from, and what pages on your site draw them in. Then use Google Webmaster Tools to analyze your inbound links. That should give you a much better understanding than just relying on PR.

Fully agree. Getting the right traffic, monitoring and analysing whether you are, and where to go, using tool like Google analytics and keyword postioning is more important than Page Rank.

In most cases, when you do these things right, your ranking in both Google PR and Alexa will gradually go up.

There are of course ways to prime these rankings...but why bother.

Wouldn't really drive traffic, since rankings are not publicly displayed.

Will allow you to make claims, look good on paper but your visitors to be dissappointed whenthey vist you site.

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