Comments on: PageRank Update 2006

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:35:39 +0000

Great post, I struggle witht he whole concept. I have about six sites and run an estate planning business. Will writting and inheritance tax planning, I can’t even work out if the internet is a good way to spend marketing £ in this field, but I still eagley await the PR, even if I dont get a hugh number of hits it makes me feel i have done a good job.
http://gb-legal.com

By: Search Big Daddy

Search Big Daddy — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:35:50 +0000

Enjoyed the post, Yaro.

SEO is important and the right thing to do, period.

But page rank is NOT what puts the food on my table. TRAFFIC to my sites is what does that. And unfortunately, even some of my PR6, PR7 and even higher sites don’t profit much at all because they don’t get much traffic. Yet, many of my PR1, 2s and 3s are rolling in traffic and dough.

For this reason, I don’t rely on Google page rank too much as a guarantee of income and success. I’d rather have a LOW Alexa rank, personally. Because this means that TRAFFIC is coming to my site. Yahoo and MSN traffic and TRAFFIC from ppc is what pays my mortgage.

By: jack

jack — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:21:16 +0000

Sometimes it takes more than one high backlink. The backlinks from authority sites with high PageRank really count the most.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:28:54 +0000

Also note that for example:
http://www.relytec.com
is different (in pagerank term) than
http://relytec.com
(without the www.)

By: peter

peter — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:07:55 +0000

I think your article is interesting. But can anyone tell me when the next pagerank update is due?
Thanks.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 26 May 2006 03:28:17 +0000

Good article. I just started my site on may 1 and have been trying every techinque to promote it. Basically using sitemaps, submitting to search engines, meta tag analysis, link exchange, adding tons of content, blogs, blog feeds, robots.txt file etc. I hope that the initial update will have me at page rank 3 or above but we shall see. Anyway good article.

By: PageRank10

PageRank10 — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:34:05 +0000

Surely that cant be the case, so if I had just one high ranking site e.g. PR9, I could just churn out sites all day, link to them and then each would eventually receive a PR8??

By: Yaro

Yaro — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 00:34:47 +0000

Hi Jerry – it’s hard to know when the next visual pagerank will occur. It’s becoming quite random. It used to be around every quarter but the last few have taken a long time to settle.

Try not to worry about it and just work on making your site better.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:34:49 +0000

I think your article is interesting. But can anyone tell me when the next pagerank update is due?
Thanks

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:04:52 +0000

I was wondering when such updates occured. Too bad my site just launched so I don’t have a pagerank yet. Thanks for the info however.

By: Steve Gill

Steve Gill — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:50:29 +0000

I agree with your analysis about PR ranking being one less than the highest pagerank of its backlinks (although that may not be the case if that high backlink also has 100 other links on its page… not sure either way).

However some internal pages can match their index page’s PR -and even surpass it- if the internal page gets lots of external links specifically to it, OR with careful manipulation of internal linking.

But, as you mention:
“In the grand scheme of things the little green bar means very little unless you are in the business of selling links.”

And even then, sex.com recently sold for $12 million and its PR is currently 3 and when I looked at it on the day it sold, I’m *sure* it was zero – but is ‘under new management’ now and got lots of links due to that sale.

-Steve

By: Blaze

Blaze — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 06:31:05 +0000

My PageRank toolbar always shows the old data (I’m talking about not the results fromt he last few months – the OLD stuff – back when my site was PR3) so that’s annoying but i dont appear to have moved from a 4.

Is this update you’re referring to “Big Daddy” do you know Yaro?

Also Tanya, page rank is different for different hostnames and it treats any domain or sub domain differently (including www etc). So http://www.bla.com is different from othersite.bla.com is different from thewhitehouse.com

By: tanya

tanya — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:24:58 +0000

I thought this was interesting – although maybe everyone else knew about this but me, but when I check the pagerank of my site using http://iateapie.net (no wwww) it shows up as pagerank 5. When I add the www – it’s pagerank 6.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:11:39 +0000

Hmm, maybe I have jumped to conclusions. The pagerank hasn’t settled down as yet I believe since all three of my computers are showing different numbers now.

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:54:46 +0000

Well, looks like despite slowing down my post rate I’ve landed a PR5. Can’t be unhappy with that.