So I found out today that my Wanderer Thoughts poetry blog just got a Page Rank of 2, my personal blog Justin Germino received a Page Rank of 1, and this blog which is more prevalent and popular than both of those blogs is still a PR of 0. I decided to compare a recent Page Rank comparison against my friend Damien Riley’s Postcards From The Funny Farm Blog.
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From these stats listed above:
My Wanderer Thoughts blog is same Page Rank as PFTFF blog which should not be possible. The PFTFF has 25x more results on the web, 8x more yahoo backlinks, almost twice as good Alexa rank and yet has the same PR2. Meanwhile Dragonblogger has 5x More backlinks from Yahoo, better Alexa rank and more results on the web than Wanderer Thoughts and is still a PageRank of 0.
If Results from the web was hugely important, then there is no way Wanderer Thoughts would be a PR2. Then again my Rock Along Productions blog is a PageRank of 4, and it has less links, hits and alexa rank than all of these blogs.
The reason why my blogs are penalized is Paid Blogging hurts your PageRank, everyone knows it. Its a shame though because of the double edge sword, you need a high PR to score better opps, and doing paid opps hurts your PR. I continue to try and model my strategies to match Damien Riley’s but he has almost two year lead on blogging over me, so I wish I could tell my readers that I know how I achieved a Google PR and the best way to say this is:
Web Sites without paid content will automatically have higher PR than if you have a disclosure badge, or do PPP or PayU2Blog posts. This is why Rock Along Productions and Wanderer Thoughts which do no paid content or posts have a PR of 4 and 2 respectively yet have less than 30 unique visits per day in comparison to Dragonblogger.com which has over 300 unique visits per day.
The odd thing is my personal blog does do paid posts, SocialSpark and PayU2Blog and it still has a higher PR than my Dragonblogger, so this throws a wrench in the works. Dragonblogger is the only one that has done PayPerPost opps though, so does Google specifically penalize PayPerPost blogs?
Just some of my thoughts and comments.
-Dragon Blogger
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December 31st, 2008 at 6:36 am
I had read, though, that google themselves admitted that page rank was going to be less of a valid indicator of a page’s status in the coming year (sorry, I’m too lazy to find and cite it). Maybe your changed ranks are part of an overhaul to show people that PR is a less valid measurement of a site’s traffic?
The whole PR issue is kind of thorny, and won’t go away anytime soon. As long as you have advertisers out there who think that internet ads are a magic bullet to increase traffic, they’ll be looking for some arbitrary stat that they can say is the one thing they need to consider when placing ads.
The challenge will always be to find thoughful advertisers who try to consider the site and its audience as a whole, to place ads (or paid posts) most effectively.
December 31st, 2008 at 2:19 pm
PageRank is a product of Google: a company that gives its employees a “Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory” sort of work environment. I read they shuttle them to work and privide wireless access on the shuttle so they can get started while sipping coffee opening their laptops. They have a ton of other perks. The point is these people trult believe they set the standard for web search and pretty much the worth of all websites. Truth? They do with ignorant advertisers but this will be changing very soon.
The future from my perspective will clearly be publicly viewable stats easily available to advertisers. This already exists on sites like xinureturns.com but it will be standard soon I am sure of it. Then the reader/advertiser can judge the site based on what she/he deems important.
Unofortunately for now, the sposored post folks rely almost solely on PageRank to hire blogs.
Justin you muct remember that PageRank is not a cumulative totaling of all numbers like a baseball game. They measure one link from a PR8 as way more important than 50 from PR1’s. AND, if you have a few good inbound links, linking out to too many sites can decimate any rank those good ones brought you. Ultimately it;s a game of “Ad-in deuse ad-out” like tennis. You are either up one -at zero- or down one. The key is to get high PR sites to link to you and link out sparingly. At least that it what I am thinking today.
You got railroaded with dragonblogger. If I were you I’d get a plugin that removes all outbound links and start being the Grinch about it. Plus, I know you hate to hear this, but I would get rid of most the ads as well unless they are making you money.
Hang in bro. Thanks for the mention.
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January 29th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
PageRank is only an indicator of the ’strength’ ofthe page and is updated every once in awhile. Your SERPs will flux often as your page moves up in the ranks. PR is not a real-time ’score’. You’ll get properly ranked in real-time as your site’s progress improves.