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More Falling Pagerank: Sweet!

Well, it seems as if I’m finally part of the “In-Crowd”. The Pagerank of SEOlogs.com home page dropped from PR5 down to PR4.

Wait… What?

Pagerank is doing What now?!… Going Back Up!?

That’s right, according to Andy Beard (see post), many of the sites that saw up to triple digit hits over the past couple of days, are now getting those little green blobs back, and it looks like lots of other sites, including dnScoop.com, which went from PR4 to PR5, are seeing pagerank increases.

It’s actually sort of amusing just how much buzz there is about this pagerank update, considering that the general consensus about PR was, and still is, that pagerank doesn’t matter anymore.

We may not want to admit it, but I suspect that a lot of us are having a hard time letting the pagerank glory days go. Those days of proudly showing off your high pagerank pages, and trying to figure out how many links it would take to move you up to that next level of pagerank glory.

I often get emails asking, “How do I increase my Pagerank?”, or “How did you get a PR5?”. The answer simple answer to those questions is “Links”, but since the original idea of pagerank has been confounded so much, there really is no way to make sense of which links you should get, or which will pass pagerank. In that sense, I suppose that in that sense, Google is getting what they wanted; for people to stop trying to manipulate rankings by buying and trading links.

Well, what I have noticed so far, and what many of you who lost pagerank during the last few days have also noticed, is that when you lost 1, 2, and even 3 pagerank points, NOTHING HAPPENED! You didn’t loose any traffic at all. In fact, your traffic is probably increasing. Mine is.

What Really Matters
When you take away everything else, what really matters is popularity. How well to people actually like a site. How much traffic does the site get? How many times has a site been Dugg, voted up on Reddit, favorited in Del.icio.us, Stumbled Upon, or Sphunn? If you’re a blogger… How many feedburner subscribers does your blog have? Do readers comment? What’s your technorati rank?

These are the indicators and goals that matter. Everything else is just for show.



3 Responses to “More Falling Pagerank: Sweet!”

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    October 27th, 2007 at 4:12 am

    Agree

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    October 27th, 2007 at 5:20 am

    Had about 10 domains move from PR0 -> PR3. Brilliant day.

  3. 48) { this.width = 48; this.height = 48; } ; if (this.width < 48) { this.parentNode.title = 'Iscriviti a MyBlogLog.com!'; this.src='http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/images/pict_none.gif'; this.onload=void(null); }" alt="MyAvatars 0.2"/> Javier Says:
    October 27th, 2007 at 7:10 pm

    hi guys, this going on of the `page rank is so crazy, i live in colombia and have 3 web pages of affiliates programa, it’s so crazy i just saw today my 3 webpages and they all now have page rank, yesterday the didn’t hehehehe
    i dont know what happens
    one of them has PR4
    hehehehe

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