I’m not really sure on when exactly the pagerank update has occurred but last Friday I opened the home page of this site to see if its still functioning properly (lol) and then I easily noticed that the pagerank toolbar suggested MelvinBlog has now a pagerank of 3. Yay!
Actually I don’t really know how to react primarily because I never cared about pagerank anyway. In fact as I was writing this post, I was thinking if its even necessary to post this blog article. But because I see that most people post articles when pagerank update occurs, I was convinced. 😉
Back about not caring about pagerank. The truth is I never really cared. Most of the sites that I own do have pagerank yet my main business model does not really rely on getting huge search traffic or building tons of backlinks. But for MelvinBlog its quite a bit interesting. Here’s a brief story why.
MelvinBlog Pagerank Story
So everything started last August of 08 I think. I got PR2 and that was considering that my blog was just started just June of 08. So for 2 months only, I was able to manage getting my blog into that pagerank without doing anything at all literally.
Then 2 weeks after that, Google slapped me back to PR0 for no reasons at all. You see I don’t sell links, or if I ever do, it usually is redirected from OpenAds back then which means no PR juice is passed to a site. I do sell reviews but even that, I nofollow all the links. So even though I didn’t care that much with PR, I was quite baffled.
After two years, I still had PR0. And that came with the fact that I have over 10,000 backlinks, that I guest blogged for majority of big and reputable blogs like JohnChow.com & DailyBlogTips.com, and have never done anything that would piss off the search engines (Google in particular).
At the time, I was thinking that maybe the linking structure of my site is super flawed that Google cannot just read my entire site properly. That’s because my blog isn’t set up normally, I do usually try to nofollow page that I dont think add value, noindex tags and categories page and even do my robots.txt page extensively.
So with that I really lost hope that my blog would ever get passed PR0 and like I said, I have come to the point where I don’t care about it anymore since the bulk of the income that I make is through advertising, something that pagerank has nothing to do about.
So that’s it. I think it’s important to note too that we as bloggers shouldn’t be caring too much about these metrics because after all, it has nothing to do with our success or the money that we could potentially make.
Personally, I could say that its nice to see this blog get a PR3. How about you? I like to hear your say about this topic and I’d like to know too if your blog/s received an increase or decrease in pagerank as well.
first of all, most blogger including you doesn’t really know what page rank really is, well I didn’t know at all till I watch the video in Stompernet. For all those post that I have read so far about pagerank… none are correct at all… (I almost laugh at them) most are just bullshit… the real truth and fact about page rank is actually… how often you post your content… look there are some blog with high page rank but Alexa ranking is in 6 to 7 digit numbers… and some with only pagerank 1 can get below 50,000 pagerank…
well look at those news site,such as digg… because their content are almost every hour update, their page rank is damn high… but their Alexa ranking aren’t as impressive as other social media site… why is this so…
As I had said… it’s how often you post ur content and not those bullshit almost every blogger claim to know… seriously… believe it or not… that’s just how pagerank work…
This is interesting. I discovered a while ago that my blog was at PR0 as well, but I know why. I was selling links via textlinksads, and I can’t see any other reason than this is why. Now, I discovered that my blog is at PR4. I don’t care about PR, but when it’s a good number, I sort of care anyway. I don’t write for Google, and I don’t care for Alexa either. I love to write, that’s why…
But about a month ago I bought Scribe SEO, and for the first time I have started to care about SEO 🙂
Actually, PR ranking is not really about the number of posts you make, though it’s influenced by the number of posts you make. PR increases when the credibility of your site increases, by a couple of factors, and this is determined by Google’s algorhythm. Firstly, how “real” your site is. This is about the authenticity of your articles/posts as compared to just keyword stuffing etc. Secondly, about the links you keep with you. If you write about making money online, and your links/ads that you put out is about getting the girl or jumping higher, Google will determine that there is an inconsistency, and that decreases credibility in their eyes. Thirdly, it is linked by powerful or higher PR sites linking to you. An example is if a PR6 site such as John Chow or Yaro Starak’s site links to one of your posts (I told you it’d affect in a way, but not as direct as you think), that will raise Google’s perception of the credibility of your site.
Actually Melvin, that’s a good sign, it’s an indication that you’re gaining reputation in the blogosphere and that your content is good enough for sites with higher PR to linkback to you. Keep it up, and build the list ok! =)
I am probably in the minority here when I say I am not at all bothered about page rank. I’ve always said that it hsould be about the content you have, not have many points Google gives you. 🙂
I’d continue reading this blog even if it went back to a PR0. 🙂
Hi Melvin, I used to obsess over PR. I don’t anymore, now that I know that it’s practically useless!! LOL.
I actually wrote a big long blog post a whille ago entitled “The Truth About Pagerank.”
Of course, I guess it is better to have a nice PR rather than none at all, but you’re right in saying that we shouldn’t focus on these metrics.
P.S. I have the same WordPress theme as you 🙂 haha nice!
I get your point Bad Blogger. As I said I don’t really care that much with the PR and I do care even lesser for the pr that shows up in the toolbar.
That stompernet video has got to be interesting so i’m gonna find and watch that now.
lol. right. Its just human psychology that we don’t care that much on some things but if its good, then we sort of start to care for it.
Well maybe i should start caring more about seo then.
I’m not saying it’s important about pr, but just my knowledge I knew from the video in stompernet, and they have proof about what they said that’s why the truth about pr is actually not to be concern of, where else alexa ranking should be the one that you should concern about….
yeah good point. Relevance and quality of links pointing to you are important. That’s why I’m surprised that google wasn’t giving me any pr juice even though i guest posted for top blogs on a consistent basis
yea me too. & thanks for reading this blog. 🙂
All the blogs that I’ve had started with a pagerank then eventually lose it. I have no idea why and have never sold links. I’m very passive when it comes to recovering my pagerank but I do try to get it back.
I am probably in the minority here when I say I am not at all bothered about page rank. I’ve always said that it hsould be about the content you have, not have many points Google gives you. 🙂 I’d continue reading this blog even if it went back to a PR0. 🙂
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