Comments on: PageRank Explained – Keeping SEO Simple

By: Pat Williams

Pat Williams — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:30:14 +0000

Crazy that it’s almost 5 years since you wrote this and people are still obsessed by Google and PR and how it all comes together. I used to work for an seo firm and PR was something we focused most of our attention on because the clients themselves look at that magic number as a parameter if we were doing our jobs.

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World's Strongest Librarian's 12 Most Popular Posts — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:13:34 +0000

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By: Philippines

Philippines — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:29:37 +0000

I really don’t understand why a lot of people focus on PR when it’s only 1 or the 200 signals used by google to rank their website. It may be helpful to get a PR so other sites will request a link exchange, but will waste a lot of time. Natural links will come to you if you build great content…

By: damacana su firmalari

damacana su firmalari — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:42:41 +0000

Very useful article.
Is it true, that PR is less important for SEO than few years ago?

By: Aerias

Aerias — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:07:36 +0000

Hey Yaro, it’s been a long time since I’ve visited your blog, and decided to take another go at your Blog Mastermind program. Explains how I got here (yet again). The problem is that though I’ve taken your advice, to ignore it and just focus on the variables behind it; it’s still pretty hard to let go (maybe because I’m just being stubborn in that sense?). Though there are a lot of things spiraling about in my head, thanks for clearing up the issue on PageRank. It was a little hard to digest the information, but thanks for enlightening me upon this matter (especially through your Blog Mastermind program).

Cheers.

By: Mayweather V Mosley

Mayweather V Mosley — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:19:59 +0000

Thanks to Google for bringing me here… Love your explanation… Now I understand PR more…

By: Mayweather-Mosley

Mayweather-Mosley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:33:03 +0000

Maybe the PageRank Prediction tool uses the Google API to get its info. If you click the check link next to the results, you’ll see the address points to Google’s domain. The PageRank Prediction tool probably looks for the largest value as its basis of the prediction. PR is not matter, traffic is matter. For some I agree but if you have high PR then Google will visit your site often more.

By: Contrave

Contrave — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:47 +0000

Yaro, thanks for the great info on pagerank. This is a great article for those who want an easy way to learn the basics of what pagerank is, and why it’s important.

By: Entrepreneurs Blog

Entrepreneurs Blog — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:44:47 +0000

I must admit page rank always baffled me. I understand the basic concept of links as a ‘vote’ but when I installed ‘SEO for Firefox’ which display various SEO data in the Google sesrch, I found that some sites which weren’t great had good PR. I have just ocncentrated on writing and linking with good sites. I launched the blog in May and have a PR of 4, I consider that not a bad effort.

By: normalyn

normalyn — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:25:03 +0000

I was wondering what the fuss was about regarding PR’s. Thanks to this post of yours I am now enlightened. My website just got PR 1 as of today and I’m really happy

By: Women's Handbags

Women's Handbags — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:44:49 +0000

People keep saying that PR is not matter, traffic is matter. For some I agree but if you have high PR then google will visit your site often more.

I got PR 3 website and every time I post an article it will inserted into SERP in a matter of seconds.

By: SEO

SEO — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:04:42 +0000

It seems to me that when Google is working on PR or BL, they throw huge resources into it. If you keep an eye on GoogleBot spidering of a site, the number of spiders per day, reduces drastically, about a week before the new rankings appear, from between 4 and 8 a day, to only one a day.The strange thing is that although this happened up until 17th July, when sites were re-ranked, and then spidering went back to normal, this weekend, it has gone back to just one spider in 24 hours.

Maybe Google is doing something else with their resources, that we aren’t aware of !! Maybe a new ranking system, or BL [backlink] system

By: Direct ingaande lijfrente

Direct ingaande lijfrente — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:34:50 +0000

@Keron: I have the same experience with my pagerank in Google. Although it dropped only from 4 to 2. I was very worried that I would loose my visitors. Fortunately Bing has picked up my website and now most of the the visitors come from Bing. Notice: I also added more unique content. Unique content is still the most important thing that attracts visitors.
Regards, Juan

By: Gabriel Scofield

Gabriel Scofield — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:39:02 +0000

Great post! I have actually been really getting into all of this SEO stuff since I just started my blog. Thanks for the info…it has really helped!!

By: Keron

Keron — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:50:14 +0000

I had a 4/10 PR and it disappeared about a month now to 0/10 and I know i got some really good backlinks and unique content. So I just don’t worry about it because I am still getting visitors from Bing and Yahoo.

By: doruman

doruman — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:40:11 +0000

Congratulations Yaro for your work of four years ago, from where some informations are still valid today. Many bloggers and owners of websites runs after backlinks, more backlinks for page rank… What it`s the main difference between all these and a pro bloggers e.g.?

One pro will search for quality one way backlinks and more less of them will monitorize these backlinks. I`m not the first who write these things. In January a known SEO expert afirmed in public that in present it`s not more needed to be a SEO expert to obtain a fast indexing in search engines and even to obtain top positions.

I can confirm that theory, in July 13 I started a little project, only with free methods and I obtained the indexing in Google in less than three days and for a second domain name I obtained the 2-7 position in the first page of Google for few targeted keywords in less than 13 days. These things can be done without have SEO skills indeed, anyone can do when he/her know some things and start to apply those. In my blog it can be found more details.

By: Gary A. Parenti

Gary A. Parenti — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:10:09 +0000

Hey Yaro,

Here I am Again,I just received your Email on Page Ranking.
I Rank #1 for pyradom,because I created this word.If you are
the only one with a certain word,I assume you would have to
Rank #1..

This has been my case now for several years.This has been
this way for me even B4 I began to Blog..So if you are the only
one with a certain word and one word only..You do in fact rank
#1…

If you Google pyradom you can see for yourself…
I guess I have left Foot Prints every where..

To Our Success,
One of your followers,
Gary,

By: Cheryl Ragsdale

Cheryl Ragsdale — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:05:38 +0000

Hi Yaro,
Thanks for educating me on the importance of PageRank and then letting me know to focus on content instead of worrying about it at this stage of my blog game.

I’m pressing on…
Cheryl

By: Harrison Schmidt

Harrison Schmidt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:35:42 +0000

And now after ~4 years this page is PR3. Interesting to see SEOMoz used to comment here. Good post. That about explains page rank.

By: Karate Suits and Uniforms

Karate Suits and Uniforms — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:51:12 +0000

I think page rank is becoming irrelavant.. if you don’t have great content and great products or services to offer your customers, than your rank won’t matter..A buddy of mine created a blog just for the fun of it, and ended up with 23K back-links…

Great writing, i think it gets to the point of great contribution..

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:04:26 +0000

Hello Yaro. I founded your site at a time that I was ready to host my new Blog. Let me tell you one thing, I think the becomeablogger.com with your 10 videos was the best thing I came across. I read your blog all the time for new tips from you. I can say I consider you my mentor. I love this post about “page rank”. I have worked hard on my new blog and got my site ranked from pr0 to a pr4 in 44 days. Thanks for all the great and useful content. I know that everyday is a learning experience and I love to learn more and more about everything possible out there on making money with your blog and online. Have a nice day Yaro!.

By: Matthew Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:14:20 +0000

I has no idea that the page rank criteria were so detailed. Thanks for the explanation Yaro.

By: edison

edison — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:36:55 +0000

hi mate, do you have any summarized how google computes pagerank? i have an old website that doesn’t have any updates but now on PR 1 while my other website i used to update every time doesn’t have PR. thanks and keep up.!

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Turulcsirip - YankeeinaNewWorld — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:15:17 +0000

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By: Burt Munro

Burt Munro — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:13:55 +0000

This page seems to have a high Page Rank so it adds even more credibility to your advice. Thanks Yaro.

By: Nards

Nards — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:46:40 +0000

Even though I am not personally concerned with PR, I am a tinkerer and love finding out how things work. It still is a fascinating subject! – Nards

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goedadvies — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:09:57 +0000

Nice article with good tips about Google PageRank.
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1000 Questions to Ask Before You Begin Blogging — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:08:26 +0000

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By: John H Gohde

John H Gohde — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:56:29 +0000

I have been waiting for Google to assign pagerank to one of my new sites for over six months. Thanks for the link to this pagerank tool.

By: Marcin Kosedowski

Marcin Kosedowski — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:09:02 +0000

Great article! Many things about Page Rank was hard to understand for me but your article makes it clear.