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Yeah, I’m with you on the PageRank issue. I think we’ve all become to conscious of it and it’s making us waste our time and neglect real things we could be doing to make our sites better.

The only benefit I get from my Pagerank (PR5) is that when I approach other bigger bloggers/websites and seek introductions I usually get a better foot in the door because they see my pagerank and assume I must be a doing something right (and I’ve asked around after developing a relationship with them and this was a factor).It’s sad but true.

I’ve seen absolutely awesome (and financial successful) sites and blogs with pageranks of 1 and 2. I think if we’ve not all be fooled by Google’s PageRank then it’s pretty close to being - I even know from Google insiders … namedropping here that they want to make major changes to pagerank (if not dump it all together) as they’re not happy how it’s developed over time.

Hmm, I sure suffer from Pagerank Paranoia. I was highly dissapointed to see Google not increasing the PR of my main page. It did however increase the PR of my register page to the same as the main page! That was rather suprising and confusing.

Nevertheless a PR of 4, and having been online for only 5 months isn’t so bad I think. It will take time, but I am trying to get its PR up to a 5 hopefully by the end of the year.

I find the patience factor a huge problem. I can’t stand having to wait 4 months for each PR update. They need todo it weekly or like, have this system where they send you updates whenever a page you have claimed is updated. Yeah a PR newsletter, can you imagine the amount of money they can make having a PR newsletter. Subscribe to PR newsletter from Google and learn how to increase you PR! Yeah, I’d pay for that.

I think the subject of ‘does PR matter anyway’ should also be addressed - thus eliminating any paranoia at all! Google search results are full of low PR sites ranking higher in the results than ones with a high PR.

I stopped religiously tracking my pagerank across various sites a while ago. I realised that good sites can still rank well, and often my content pages have a higher PR than the homepage.

PR is good for credibility though, and I still believe high PR sites get crawled more often.

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This is the first that I’ve heard of the “pagerank leak” issue and I am fascinated by the concern. I did some poking around and found this clarificationon the Google Webmaster’s blog: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/blogher-2007-building-your-audience.html where they clearly dispute the concept. MY understanding is that pagerank is a page valuation determined by the number of links going TO a page and does not factor the number of links going FROM a page. That valuation might be part of the whole Authority model of relevance ranking. It is possible that Google has configured its algorithm to discount “nonsense” links, i.e. those that come from the junk drawer, catch all, Resources pages used for reciprocal linking policies. I do not see how/why they would diminish the pagerank of the destination page for something like then but, then, stranger things have happened with Google.

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