Aug 28 2007
Waiting for Google’s PR Update With Interest
I don’t know anything about Technorati rankings and I’m not too clued up with the whole Alexa thing, but one thing I know well is Google’s Page Rank (PR). That little green PR bar at the top of my web browser is one of the most important things for those of us who dabble in selling links directly to other websites.
Since starting this blog a few weeks ago I’ve found myself reading other blogs a lot more often. I’ve discovered a whole bunch of gems out there and it seems like most of the blogs I’m reading at the moment are PR0. Some of these blogs seem really well established and have pretty solid followings. It’ll be really interesting to see how all these newish blogs do in the next update.
Whether you love of hate PR, it does make a difference when you’re trying to sell link space or sell paid reviews and I know that this next update is eagerly awaited by a lot of people. I’m really curious though to see how this site does. I’ve got some inbound links from my other sites including my mighty 7 year old site that Google is in love with. Links from that site have always served me well so I hope it stays that way.
Ok enough PR talk. I hate it when people go nuts with speculation and obsess over their rankings and I feel dirty for having raised this issue myself. Dirty I tell you. But whenever this next update happens, whether it be this month or in the next decade, I’ll be watching with interest and checking all the newish blogs to see how they’ve done.
Are you new bloggers out there with PR0 as eager to get this update in as I suspect?
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My main blog went to PR2 in the last update, which surprised me because I think it was only a couple of months old and didn’t really get much traffic.
However I really don’t know properly how it all works. I’m hopeful for my powerbookstudio blog to do well though because although the traffic is low and I haven’t done much with it, it’s already coming up trumps for some good niche keyword searches.
Pure accident on my part!
I’m still hoping for a decent pagerank. I get a lot of links, so hopefully that will bump me up to something cool. My pr on my music blog, earsucker, recently went down from a 4 to a 3, that really sucked…. I guess you take the good with the bad…. My personal blog is still at zero and I get some decent traffic…..
All we can do is sit and wait, eh?
It’s funny how much people get fired up about PR. It really is kind of frustrating when you’ve put in a load of work only to see your ranking fall. On the other hand I’ve seen some of my neglected sites have unexplainable PR jumps. It truly is a mystery, the ol’ PR update. Fingers crossed it’ll be good news for us all.
It is annoying. I’m at PR0 and it does make it hard to ’sell’ your blog sometimes with no PR. Like a restaurant with a one-star review, or no review at all.
Kirsty,
hate to bother ya with a dumb newbie Q, but how do I find out the ranking for my blog? I don’t see anything on my site or any green pr bar at the top of your browser.
thanks k
Jbm