Well we find ourselves near the end of another round of Google’s Page Rank updates and while this blog has only been live for roughly four weeks it managed to squeak by and stay a PR0. While I admit I am a little disappointed I am not surprised. I am curious of the other start up blogs and the more established what is happening this update. Judging from other blogs most everyone was upgraded this time. I know relative to last time this update has been much nicer. It seems like the last one slapped a lot of people down pretty hard. I am curious to know about my readers pages if they saw an up or down, and if they might have been using no follow tags regularly or partaking in some for of link exchanges. I have went ahead and put some explanation for those not familar with the Page Rank system and some little info to help with raising it. I expect to see a PR3+ the next time out of the box. What do you expect for your site?
Since the beginning days of the world wide web, search engines have tried and tested different methods of trying to rank web pages. “Page rank†is the method invented by Google to measure the relative importance of a web page, often referred to as popularity.
So, what exactly is Page rank and how is it calculated? According to Google “page rank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “importantâ€
What this means is that page rank results from a vote amongst all the pages on the internet. A link from one page to another is counted as a vote. A page that is linked by many pages with a high page rank, receives a high page rank itself. Conversely, if a page has no links pointing to it, it receives no votes and as a result receives a lower page rank.
To find out the page rank of your website or any other website, you need to install the Google tool bar. The page rank tab is visible on this tool bar. The Google tool bar page rank ranges from 0 to 10. The scale of page rank is widely considered to be logarithmic. The exact details of this are not available.
Now that you know exactly what Page rank is, here’s what you can do to achieve a higher page rank for your website :
Get External Links!
Try to obtain as many links as possible to your website. Check the Pagerank of the website that will be linking to yours. Linking with a website which has a page rank of 0 is pretty useless.
Always check the number of links present on the page where you might want your link listed. If the page has many links on it then it becomes obvious to the search engine spider that this page was created by the webmaster specifically to exchange links and therefore reduces it’s importance. This can happen when the page concerned has a high page rank itself. Therefore, it can be more beneficial to link with a web page that has a lower page rank, of say 4, and with lesser number of links on it than with a page of page rank 6 which has many links on it.
Try to get your website listed on directories such as DMOZ and Yahoo. They seem to play a great role on Googles algorithm.
Work on internal links
Getting links from external websites is well and good but it is also hard to control. However, you have control over the links between your pages and they can play an important role.
It is important to organize the pages of your website well. Each page with a pagerank can transmit some of it’s page rank to a page linking to it. Supposing your homepage has achieved a decent page rank, your inside pages can benefit from this by being linked to from the homepage. If however, you do many links, the share of page rank distributed to each page will be weaker.
Be careful whom you link to from your pages. Google knows that webmasters do not have control over who links to their web pages. However, they also know that webmasters have full control over whom they link to. Linking to websites that have been banned from Google or removed from their index can cause harm to the page rank of your website.
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For me, your site appears to be PR5, not Pr0. My site is only at PR3, a little disappointment not to have it raised. I will use those tips though! Thanks Ben!
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Are you serious? pr5? That would be nice. hehe. Wish they would hurry it up and finish.
One thing I have done is to really limit what I am linking to I went back through every post essentially minus a few key links and set them to no follow. Most of it is just basic seo stuff that I have been neglecting. I’m now down to reasearching keywords and promoting. At the moment my keywords are really lame.
I got a PR3, and Nathaniel, it’s PR0 for Ben’s homepage. The blog is actually not that old, so PR5 isn’t granted very easily.
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It seems like the PR update has benefited most people this time around. Kinda strange how it works, you never know what to expect. You can work your ass off building links and still get dropped, or do nothing and get raised. It never seems to make any sense, at least to me!
If you can get this blog ranked at a 3 for its first ranking that would be quite an accomplishment! Good Luck.
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I got my page rank by ignoring most everything I’ve read about the ‘rules’.
My blog is about sharing creative bloggers and that’s what I’m determined to do. I even keep a growing list of urls in my blogroll. Hundreds of blogs. So many I had to move them to an inside page.
I link to popular bloggers as well as new bloggers (at least 3 months old). Would my page rank be higher if I had been picky? Not sure. But I do know the spirit of what I’m doing would be lost.
The only time I lost my page rank was recently when I was messing around with the control panel at the wrong time. I wanted all site urls to switch to www and there was a snafu.
On this latest upgrade I got it back (thankfully). But it was a nervous month.
Page rank … mysterious, yes?
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I enjoyed reading your great post. The ideas and insights are very worth reading. Thanks for the valuable information and insights you have shared here.
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Your pr is 0 on my toolbar. I hope it rises next update
Your alexa rank is decent too.
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Hallo,
Pls advise if our PR will go down in case it is linked by low external links.
And, sure, how could we fix this matter ?
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I really love the page rank idea. Don’t you think it’s strange that Google rules the internet? I do.. I think they’re so powerful, it’s scary!
ive read alot about page rank and if it still matters, can any body tell me if it counts and whether google still think its an important factor?
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