A friend of mine found a post on page rank and showed me. It looked extremely interesting, so I held on to it for a day or so. When I actually sat down to read it and play with it, the post was just funny.

Cash Quests has written a post (and put it up in its featured section) about a website called LivePR.Info. You can read the post for yourself, here. In this post the writer tells about the website and the cons of the tool. Not con as in negative, but con as in “illegal”. He tells you how to con Google for better page rank, or to sell off your quality page rank. He says twice in his post that he would never do it, but has no issues with telling you exactly what to do. But that’s not what this post is about.

A tool that tells you the page rank of each page on your site could be very helpful. Not for the reasons he spoke about, but for slightly more honest reasons. The actual reason people want page rank. If you have a website with a certain page that you’d like seen, it would be helpful to know its page rank. If you have a site with a lot of quality pages, it can be difficult to look up each one individually. Having them all listed there for you can help you to see how popular each page is and which ones need your attention.

However, the funny part about this, is that I went to LivePR.info and put in my website. My friend Anna who showed it to me did this as well. I even put in PJ Mommy for giggles. Strangely enough, every page on every website I put in came back with a PR of 10. That’s wonderful! We’re all going to be rich on the next update!

The truth of the matter is, no one but Google knows that Google is doing. You can’t predict page rank and, obviously, you can’t accurately display a current page rank. So why do it? I guess people will believe anything, so make a cool tool they’ll want and slap some ads all over the pages. Make sure to put in some Google Adsense so the page scrolls forever, too.

It appears Google is done taking away Page Rank and they’ve decided to give it now. Other popular sites have gone up, as has The Blog World. My own mommy blog, As A Mother, has gone from 0 to 3. Not the most impressive number, but it opens a lot of doors for me.

Congrats to those who now have Page Rank, some of us were all waiting a long time for it.

I had a post I was planning about page rank and how some sites have gone down. But yesterday morning I got an email from another webmaster who mentioned that her page rank went down again, as well as other “big” sites, and even The Blog World has dropped.

It seems common sense to me that Google Page Rank is based on the incoming links and the quality of their website. This means if you have 10 sites with a page rank of 5 linking to you, you’re better off than if you had 100 sites with no page rank linking to you. Right? So some of my friends are going around and commenting on sites that don’t have “no follow” to try and go up the ranks by getting more linkbacks. This helps with the quality rating on your site, but it doesn’t help with Google’s Page Rank. Why?

Well, if you pay attention to the page rank on the comments/entry pages, you’ll see they have none. So your site has just earned 100 links from 0 Page Rank websites. Is this good for you? No. It is technically a “vote” for your website, but when there are a lot out of nowhere it starts to become a negative vote.

So now all the major sites have gone down in page rank. I have a theory on why this is happening. Google didn’t update their Page Rank back in July and now people are dropping like mad. It seems, to me, that they’re trying to raise the “quality” of the page rank. I think they’ve caught on to what everyone is doing and they’re adjusting it to make it so that those that are purposely trying to get page rank aren’t any more special than those who have earned it.

Has your page rank gone down? What effect has it had on your site?

I did a little more researching after a lot of people complaining of large backlinks but no PR well I located a great website that explains why.
Page Rank Update List

This Page Rank Update/Export List History contains the dates that Google Toolbar Pagerank (PR) was exported. As of April 12th, there has not been a Toolbar PR export for 76 day(s). The longest time between toolbar PR exports recorded in the below Page Rank Export List was 122 days (Oct 19/2005 to Feb 18/2006)….

This better reflects what is happening when there is a visible change in these three items. There is only an export not an update. The word update will be reserved for Algorithm Updates which will cause a change in the search engine rankings.

The Toolbar Pagerank, Google Directory Pagerank, and Backlink exports don’t cause a change in search engine rankings. Any ranking changes during the export of the values of these three items is due to on going everflux changes - unless there is an algorithm update happening at the same time.

PR/BL Estimations: Average days between the last 5 exports.
Year Date Info Days
2007 Waiting TBPR Export Estimation Apr 15 76
2007 Waiting GDPR Export Estimation Mar 19/06 478