Does the Google Page Rank Really Mean Anything, Anymore?
3 May 2008
20 CommentsWith the recent Google Page Rank Update, my Google PR jumped from 0 to 4. This update has been a similar treat for a few other blogs that I read often, like Net Entrepreneur (Alex) and Untwisted Vortex (RT Cunningham). However brief discussions with Will Taft (Will Taft’s Blog) over IM and some comments to my previous post about the PR update for Inspirit made me think if this PR update by Google really makes any serious sense or not?
I observed the PR for a few sites that get much more traffic than my blog, are much more popular and have much more backlinks pointing to them than my blog. Here are some statistics that I’d like you to take a look at for a moment:
| Website | Alexa Traffic Rank |
Yahoo Backlinks |
Google Backlinks |
Google Page Rank |
| Blogging Zoom | 91,019 | 105,000 | 21,296 | 4 |
| Blog Engage | 99,048 | 33,400 | 9,448 | 3 |
| Post on Fire | 111,689 | 14,200 | 2,981 | 4 |
| Inspirit | 167,493 | 800 | 1,067 | 4 |
With the poorest Alexa traffic rank and with the least number of Yahoo and Google backlinks out of all these websites, they stand at either the same level as me, or below!
Page Rank is the Google’s view of importance of a web page. The number of Yahoo and Google backlinks pointing to Inspirit is not even 10 % of the backlinks pointing to Blogging Zoom. Even then, is Blogging Zoom more or less of same importance as Inspirit Blog in Google’s View?
Will had a good point about Google Page Rank system being watered down in his comment to my previous post. “Another Pointless Blog” in my blog-roll has only 3 posts in the last 3 months, two out of which are guest posts by me! Still that blog has managed to get a PR 2 status.
I was quite excited about getting a good Page Rank for my blog and hope to get some more search engine traffic from this. But do you think seeing all this happen, anyone will take this PR update or the whole Page Rank thing itself, seriously? I highly doubt it.
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few care about pagerank updates anymore
I remember when my site’s rank was 5 when it was just a month old last year when all the paid links penalties were being applied by google…thats LESS THAN A MONTH OLD! It fell to four in the update after that and I seriously don’t care what it is now.
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Congrats to you Abhi
so happy after I got stuck on PR 3 for 4 months!
My blog is PR 5 now
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I noticed that with a pagerank 2 I get my pages indexed faster. Maybe if you have higher pagerank you get indexed quicker.
I posted yesterday and was listed in google today for my long tail keyword phrase.
Another great post.
Larry
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As long as you have a blog and have some ping sites set up you get indexed in like an hour.
It is confusing. There are also some sites that make me wonder if there is a penalty involved or something. For example, the ProBlogger site is PR 6. Is that site really only one rank better than my humble blog at PR 5? If I am a 5, I would expect ProBlogger to be at least 7 or 8?
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I was happy that my page rank went from 2 to 4. But it’s probably irrational - bloggers don’t seem to believe in page rank terribly much (I’m not sure alexa and the others are much better). When I get a huge spike in traffic due to a stumble it doesn’t seem to shift the ranking of any of them much, which seems strange.
People seem to believe more in google analytics.
I guess we really need some very good techie person to explain what is really going on.
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I wouldn’t say Alexa is much better.. but I’d say its getting better.. What we really need to understand is that unless we are wrong if we think that we really understand metrics like Google PR and use them to our benefit. All that, that can help us to make it big in the blogosphere is to just keep working on what we write and market it ethically without caring much for various ranks and levels we crack.
Do appreciate positive changes for your blog but don’t get carried away by them. To me, these don’t really mean much anymore!
I came to the conclusion about 2 years ago that PR had almost no correlation with rankings or Google traffic.
Now it just seems Google is using it as a means to confuse webmasters and to incite FUD over link selling.
Eh, I wrote about “Pagerank is just a number, who cares?” a while back at Google PR is just a number. Who cares?
And I agree with you, it’s becoming worthless as time goes on. I mean, I have a blog that was recently given a PR3 and I haven’t updated anything since… December. Matter of fact, it barely has backlinks so how the hell did I end up with a PR3?!
Jay
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Mine hasn’t been updated yet.. I wonder if it will get updated at all. Oh well, as you said, who cares?
As long as my posts get good PR for search engine results, who cares about my main blog?
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I cannot agree more, Michael.
You are right but still Google has more repo than others in market
A lot of my sites jumps from PR0 to PR3. And lots of the others sites drowned from PR4 to PR0. Just don’t know what’s going on with it. Maybe it just got haywired.
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I’m having my site at pr 0 - no changes whatsoever, although many of my sites had a sudden pr increase (on the other hand, some had a decrease - all the way to 0).
I don’t know what to do, or if I should do anything at all?
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Points are so nice. Useful information is provided for bloggers, web masters and SEO experts. I am going to implement all your tips at my site. This is really fantastic.
PR is nice, but nowhere near as important as keyword authority for ranking high in the SERPs. It’s not unusual to see very low PR sites beat PR 7 or 8 sites for specific keyword phrases.
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I think pr depends on keywords in some way. Not sure how but some sites get ranked very well for little amount of links. I know one thing page rank helps but i would always rather have good search engine results or serp for the keywords i want than a pr6 page that is not listed for keyword terms.
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Google has more repo than others in market