The blogosphere is awash with news about the three PageRank updates that have taken place this month. In one of my posts, I advised people whose blogs/websites had been penalized to concentrate on improving their blogs/websites other than cursing Google. However, I was expecting some official communication from Google about all these events (If there has been any communication from the giants, please update me).
I started blogging sometime last year.At that time, I did not know anything about PageRank.I have, however, discovered that PageRank is a very important number if one’s blog is to get traffic from Google’s search engine. Some friends I have made online have confessed that in the past they lost a lot of traffic because of PageRank decreases. Now because of the power that the Google search engine has, every blogger/web master wants to have a high PageRank. The word PageRank can even be more popular than Adsense, Blogger and even youtube because it affects everyone who wants to make his/her online presence felt. Surprisingly, Google keeps PageRank issues under wraps.
Adsense, blogger and many other Google services have their own blogs. I suggest that Google must come up with a PageRank blog through which they will be continuously making updates relating to PageRank issues. Otherwise, speculations and uncertainties surrounding the PageRank issue are not healthy for the development of the Internet. The people of the Internet must not be living in uncertainty. I understand that Google’s mission is to unearth hidden information and in line with the same, they must be more transparent on PageRank issues. I really like the way they are growing. Transparency on PR issue will make me love them even more.
The Google PageRank blog, if they implement it, will be a big hit because all bloggers/webmasters will be visiting it frequently.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackClem,thanks for your frequent visits I appreciate.And I must also tell you that after reading this post I went back to check the PR of my blog:http://mumsdadschildren.blogspot.com and I was so very surprised to see that it had gone from 0 to 2.
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Bola,Great to hear that your PR is now 2.Keep on putting up good posts:)
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You can consider Matt Cutts’ blog a PageRank blog. Matt Cutts = PageRank in my eyes. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/
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@Artem:I have seen that as well.But sometimes I have problems with his blog.He uses his personal blog to speak about Google PR.That reduces the weight of whatever he says.That’s why I still hold the view that Google must introduce a PageRank blog, where Matt Cutts and others should be writing this PR stuff.This would be more official.
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Congratulations on the PR 2. I agree with your view. Google should have some communication with us. I guess Google Pagerank is unpredictable.
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Transparency and google – they are almost never found together. even their help center articles are just so much help. pr drop, google traffic drop – google just keeps doing something and offers no help if one wants to track down the root cause for the action. and more so in case of penalties – u only know you are penalised (becoz the dropped traffic says so) but you never know why you were penalised – so keep guessing, if one guesses correctly great, else you are done for.
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They built this PageRank myth and now it got bigger and bigger and they can’t figure out a way to stop people buying links. Why they just don’t “kill” the whole PR concept and remove it from their toolbar?
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Clement Nyirenda says:
December 20th, 2008 at 10:06 am
@Sam Nichols:The idea behind PageRank was great. In the past, websites were created for the sole purpose of sharing information. In such an environment, the use of the number and quality of incoming links to a site to determine a site’s rank/worth made a lot of sense. Nobody would link to a site with poor content. These days, the situation has changed. The Internet has evolved into a money machine and people are exploiting this back link concept in order to make big $$$. I hope that Google, being Google, are busy working on something to replace or to transform the PageRank concept completely. I have seen people selling links in very hidden and secret ways that cannot be traced by Google. The penalization of link sellers is not helping solve the problem at all.
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