Comments on: PageRank Update…Sort Of

By: What’s Up With RSS Numbers Today? | the.[ED]ition

What’s Up With RSS Numbers Today? | the.[ED]ition — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:38:51 +0000

[...] PageRank updates as it looks like Michael has been dropped from a PR5 to a PR2. So far, I’m still at a PR4 but there’s no telling what will happen in the next little while. I’m almost sure Gary [...]

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:30:27 +0000

I got upgraded to PR4, despite dropping in both Technorati and Alexa (probably due to all the link trains). Go figure.

By: Blogging The Movie

Blogging The Movie — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:19:11 +0000

long live.. a new source that is unrelated to Google.. There needs to be a 3rd party to judge this ranking to make it objective.

By: great008

great008 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:59:44 +0000

pagerank is just hard to figure out. take your lumps and move, as is life. thx.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:37:14 +0000

I agree to above… it definitely has its advantage, but it makes sense in the long run. You need Google to have a large enough reader base to grow large.. You need to grow large to get a lot of money by selling links, Selling links shrink your PR and the cycle continues…

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:02:26 +0000

PageRank is not dead. If PageRank died, Google would no longer have a search engine. PageRank is much more complicated than the number we see, it’s the basis for where sites show up in query results.

All Google is doing is rebalancing their index after it’s been unbalanced by people buying links just for PageRank purposes (w/o a nofollow). I’m pretty sure Google has nothing wrong with paid links, as long as they aren’t used to unbalance their index. If paid links are nofollowed, then that’s fine.

AdSense is done by JavaScript, and all links are not/cannot be followed by search engines. So, it’s not about controlling the market, either.