Comments on: Google PR: Does it really matter?

By: AFCnews

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By: How I see my blog after one year from today

How I see my blog after one year from today — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:48:20 +0000

[...] has a PR 2 since last weekend. It doesn´t really help me, because we all know, that PR is not affecting a sites ranking in results. I reached #1 positions on Google with this blog having even NO PageRank. So I don´t [...]

By: The Olympic Blogger

The Olympic Blogger — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:57:13 +0000

BTW I rank higher (41) in Ratified than the photography blog (218) so I guess that really makes me the biggest winner in ratified. Yahoo! este Google pala… hehe

By: The Olympic Blogger

The Olympic Blogger — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:53:36 +0000

Yehey! I’m the biggest winner in Ratified!!! Shooting my PR up from PR N/A to PR4 for http://olympicblogger.blogspot.com! Well… there’s this other blog about photography but we both did the same 0-4. I’d say it was a great achievement in my case because I just started that blog 8-3-2007!

I have another blog that went from PR N/A to PR4! http://callcenterveteran.blogspot.com

That blog I started 6-26-2007!

Salamat Google!

By: Loving the Google PageRank gift | Earn Free Linden Dollars and Make Money in Second Life - Chino Yray Dot Com

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:08:49 +0000

[...] a drop on their PageRank including Carl, John – who is still quite bitter with the slap, Darren and Abe while the rest of the world receives a boost. A few sites that now has a higher PR are SLTopSites, [...]

By: Mike Lopez

Mike Lopez — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:48:38 +0000

I also suffered a PR drop more than 2 months ago and traced (possibly) the cause to incoming links in the form of spam URLs resulting to 404s on my site. In a matter of days, Google reported 3000+ 404 errors on my site so I decided to take action on it. Now my PR is back up to PR4 – still one notch less from the original PR5. Full details of what I did can be found at http://seo.mikelopez.info/2007/10/27/pr-update-mikelopezinfo-goes-back-up-to-pr4/

By: Chino Yray

Chino Yray — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:58:01 +0000

Does low PR mean low traffic? Of course!

I agree with this. Especially for blogs that depends on the search engine to get some traffic. My blog has always been the Top 1 for the “earn free lindens” in Second Life and “free lindens” of the Virtual World.

50% of my traffic is from Google and I’m loving the PR4 right now. Because of that ranking, my blog will surely stay there on the top for such keywords.

By: iRonnie

iRonnie — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:02:40 +0000

with a PR of zero, im earning more in selling links compared to adsense. now why would i care with my PR rank? it just serve as a moral boost.

By: autocad

autocad — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:22:42 +0000

I agree with Abe regarding the page rank does not really affect the SERP. Just this January 2007, my site went from PR4 to PR3. All or most of the sites with the same theme loose a bit of their PR like mine. This really affected me but actually the traffic remained almost the same.

Then after a few months the traffic increased from Google three times as before but the PR3 remains the same. Before, Yahoo makes approximately 85% of my traffic, Google was approx. 10%. But now Google makes almost 40% at maximum.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 04:12:19 +0000

Update: the PMPToday PR just jumped to five or the same level as engadget. Yesterday it was 2.

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:05:47 +0000

I’ve always felt this was a good thing!

http://www.xtremegadgets.net

By: Weekend Roundup #8 » Blogging News and Reviews // JaypeeOnline

Weekend Roundup #8 » Blogging News and Reviews // JaypeeOnline — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:01:43 +0000

[...] Abe Olandres asks: Does Google PageRank really matter? [...]

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:46:30 +0000

I agree on Miguel. It is just one of many factors. Going paranoid on it is really useless. Why are we talking about PR anyway?

But I do believe there’s an Internal Page Rank that Google will probably not publish in anyway.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:36:01 +0000

Pagerank is just ONE of the factors affecting your SERP.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:22:40 +0000

elmer,

Are you being ironic? But check out Engadget and Gizmodo’s pagerank. They’re quite low now.

By: elmer

elmer — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:52:47 +0000

hmmm … maybe that’s the reason why engadget.com is now on top of me in SERP?. pero partida hindi updated ang blog ko.

By: Lonely Pinoy

Lonely Pinoy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:17:08 +0000

For me, Google PR really matters. Advertisers look for blogs with high PR especially in Sponsored Reviews.

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:24:36 +0000

@Rickey, I think this is where the 2005 Google-patended TrustRank comes in.

By: Rickey

Rickey — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:45:19 +0000

@abe: There are many factors I know, but PR 8 will always beat PR 5 — even in link-building. I don’t know if you have tested this already but I have a feeling that one link from a PR 8 will always beat links from 10 PR 3s. This is the whole basis for the PR-link-selling business! People buy expired domains because of PR. Why the sour grapes now that PR doesn’t matter? You’ve made money selling TLAs because they supposedly mattered. Again, through my experience when I do my “panic” posts, the higher PR websites will always beat me eventually in the raw SERPs (without backlinks) — you can deny this all you want. You mean to tell me MSNBC makes the best formed PR 0 posts on the planet? I don’t think so.

Google wants us to live in a perfect world, but that’s obviously not going to happen. I think this was a penalty for websites engaging in certain behavior (intentionally or not — maybe we all trusted blogherald, etc.) and not an overhaul of the PR system. The PR drop cascaded through different websites which is how the system works. The drop of engadget for example may have been done to trigger a drop in the AOL sites blessed by its PR-juice by merely being part of the network and nothing else.

By: A Bugged Life [ philippine technology. the communications industry and geek rants ] » Blog Archive » Google PR is just a number and this is my miracle explanation why

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:39:35 +0000

[...] about the Google PR numbers game is at most, a relative discourse. Yuga says that bloggers should not rely on Google PageRank and Riz exposes the idea that PageRank is a wonky [...]

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:29:49 +0000

@marghil – that’s basically the misnomer. The Toolbar Pagerank now is just a public migration of the real PR which has been in effect several months before. It means that if I’m on PR3 via the toolbar, the real PR must have been PR3 months before now.

If PR would have made its effect in the SERPs, then the blogs would have felt it by now.

By: marhgil

marhgil — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:23:27 +0000

the question is, will this PageRank downgrade affect SERPs in the near future? Pwedeng ngayon, wala pang epekto, e bukas, makalawa? Time will tell. Kapag natalo na kita sa dami ng visitors, that will be the proof. Hehehe. But I doubt it will happen. Ang gulo ko.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:12:30 +0000

wait, one point lower on one blog.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:12:00 +0000

I’ve retained my page rank. ha ha.

By: Google Lockdown - Should You Care?

Google Lockdown - Should You Care? — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:45:16 +0000

[...] shares an insightful thought on why pagerank shouldn’t matter. If you’re not selling links for PR juice, why should it [...]

By: Google Lockdown - Should You Care?

Google Lockdown - Should You Care? — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:45:15 +0000

[...] shares an insightful thought on why pagerank shouldn’t matter. If you’re not selling links for PR juice, why should it [...]

By: yuga

yuga — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:18:10 +0000

@ migs — yup, direct advertising is the hardest part to do and they don’t come too often.

@ manuelv — based on the profile of affected sites, there’s no clear indication that not selling links, using nofollow and abiding by the Google TOS will help maintain the PageRank. Besides, the toolbar PR is just a decorative figure. Remember that the real internal PR and your SERPs constantly changes and recalculated almost in real-time.

@ rickey — there’s no solid empirical data to support that premise. If you want to analyze SERPs ranking vis-a-vis PageRank, monitor the keywords that you’ve consistently ranked for at least 3 months (not keywords from freshly published post — so many other extraneous factors on that one).

Also remember that PR is computed on a per page, not per domain. So all freshly published posts from say 10 blogs will ALL have a PR0. What will determine rankings is relevance, inbound links, keyword density, title, meta, URL structure and others.

By: Eugene Villar

Eugene Villar — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:20:42 +0000

@Miguel, so bloggers should also diversify content and blogging: have a network blog to help you with traffic and direct ads and have your own blog to experiment on your own. It’s a little more work but you stand to gain on both.