Keeping Up With Page Rank V 2.0
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Keeping Up With Page Rank
This was originally posted back in 2009.
This is not a post that indicates some hidden truth or explanation about Page Rank. No, it is simply a post that indicates why I pay so little attention to it. Our site and blog had been sitting with a PR of 3 up until the most recent update. Then they both dropped down to a PR of 2. Both had seen steady increases in links so I was a bit perplexed, but it seemed to be part of a general trend. Many websites are experiencing PR down grades these days.
Then I noticed that our Tucson Small Business Networking Group site had a PR of 4. The site was just launched in May and Yahoo’s Site Explorer showed only 17 backlinks recorded. How could this be? Brand new sites are not supposed to have any PR. So how then did I end up with a PR of 4? This is beyond my understanding. Page rank is supposed to be a delayed report based on months old information.
Then today I discovered that the site and blog now have a PR of 3 and the networking site has experienced a downgrade to a PR 3. Could it be a fluke in the Page Rank? I don’t know. It is still this way days later and nothing has changed!
Well over a years time that situations changed. This website now has a PR of 0, but it still ranks well. As for me I only concern myself about page rank when I am building backlinks.
Update 06/01/2011: Back in late 2009 I added a widget to some of my blog posts. Google didn’t like this at all and the blog dropped out of sight in the rankings. Not only that we lost our Page Rank for all of our pages except the home page.
After, I remove the widget, the rankings were quickly restored but not our Page Rank except the home page. However, the blog and many of our sales pages continued to rank well. Often these pages would rank # 1 for their targeted keyword phrases but the page still showed a 0 PR.
My takeaway is this. I now am only concerned about PR when it relates to me acquiring backlinks from other pages. While I might want a higher PR for ego purposes it doesn’t seem to have any impact on our rankings. My 0 PR pages often out rank pages with PR’s of 4 or 5!
What say you?
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Then I noticed that our Tucson Small Business Networking Group site had a PR of 4. The site was just launched in May and Yahoo�s Site Explorer showed only 17 backlinks recorded. How could this be? Brand new sites are not supposed to have any PR. So how then did I end up with a PR of 4? This is beyond my understanding. Page rank is supposed to be a delayed report based on months old information.
Spamming me with my own words!
For me the biggest benefit of a high PR is when it comes to link exchanges. It makes it easier to get a webmaster to swap links when you offer a link exchange to a page that is on topic and has a strong PR. PR is just a bit of evidence to factor into the mix.
Admin: Robert: I am no fan of link exchanges. There are many more better options available!
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keywords not allowed here or spam!