Page Rank Updated

29 Oct

Posted by User Image Jay as Contests

Well, the long awaited Page Rank update seems to have happened, or be in the process of happening.

I’ve said before that Page Rank isn’t all that important. It’s a visible way of measuring inbound links to your website, and so has been used by advertisers to help set advertising costs for sites. But it’s a minor factor in your search engine results positioning, and really shouldn’t be something you obsess about increasing.

But, as Carolyn mentioned in a previous comment, it’s nice to have something higher than 0. You can see what your page rank is at various data centers by going to DigPageRank.com. For example, it looks like JugglingFrogs.com has a new page rank of 3.

Online Opportunity comes up as a 4 in all the data centers except for a few. Since the previous page rank was 0, I’d say that the new page rank will be 4. This is due in part to the link building campaign I did over the summer, submitting to a large number of directories. I built those links to get the SEO benefit from the links, not to build page rank, but you can’t help but build page rank when you add more inbound links.

Way back when, I’d announced a contest to guess the new page rank. At the time, I thought the next update would be in August. We’re a couple of months late, but a contest is a contest.

Rosa, over at Gaje Master, was the only one with the correct guess. So Rosa wins the prize!

We never did figure out what the prize was, though. If you have any requests, Rosa, let me know. Keep in mind that I’m currently backlogged on doing work on Lori’s blog from the last contest, so anything that requires much work will probably wait a while.

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nithin (Who am I?)

October 29th, 2007 at 10:08 am Quote
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Ya even my page rank was also updated from 0 to 2. But I really want to know how frequently the page rank will be updated and how to find the page rank at each data center?
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Jay (Who am I?)

October 29th, 2007 at 10:13 am Quote
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Hi Nithin, the link in the post, to DigPageRank.com, will show you the rank at each data center.

As far as when the next update will happen, who knows? Everyone predicted this one would be in late July/early August, and here it is late October.

Keep in mind that the page rank being updated is only the visible page rank. Google continually updates your real page rank for use in search engine results positioning. They only tell you about it now and then, though.
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Lori (Who am I?)

October 29th, 2007 at 10:16 am Quote
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HOORAH! Congrats on the 4! That’s awesome. My cowboy’s wife went to a 3 and my blogging with cents went to a 4!! Woohoo!
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Jay (Who am I?)

October 29th, 2007 at 10:19 am Quote
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Congratulations on BloggingCents’ 4, Lori! That’s good link building for a relatively new blog!
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Lori (Who am I?)

October 29th, 2007 at 10:29 am Quote
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Yep it is! That blog is just under 2mths old so I was super happy:)
..and thank you.
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betshopboy (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 3:54 am Quote
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Hi Jay & Lori

Congrats on both your PR 4!

My blog started slightly earlier than Bloggingcents but I got “PR N/A”, I’m not even sure what that means? Is it = PR ZERO?
Could it be due to it being a .net instead of a .com?

I felt really outcasted and leftout when everybody is celebrating their PR ranking. The feeling’s like not being invited to the biggest and most anticipated party of the year!

Gosh…
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Lori (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 6:33 am Quote
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I’m sorry Betshopboy. One thing I can say…I happen to get very lucky with backlinks. I got backlinks from several high PR blogs but hadn’t linked out to hardly anyone really. I think that is the reason for my PR but not sure. Don’t get down. It sounds like pagerank won’t matter too much before to long.
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Juggling Frogs (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 7:24 am Quote
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Wow! Congratulations, Jay, on the PR4.

I thought mine was going to be 0 because it went from the grayed-out 0 to a white 0 about three weeks ago. Your post in my feed reader this morning is the first I’ve learned that I’m not a zero! Thank you!

I wish Google would come up with a less demoralizing text with the page rank of zero. For almost six months, if my cursor wandered to the PR icon, I’d read that zero is “the rating of the importance this site.”

If, instead, it said, “This is Google’s rating based on verified interconnectedness and traffic”, it wouldn’t seem like such a slap.

So thank you, Jay, for letting me know the good news! May these numbers continue to increase for all of us, with the help of Online Opportunity and your wisdom.
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rosa (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 11:41 am Quote
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Okay, jay. Sorry. I got over here kind of late and I have been really busy with my writing, children, and court on Gaje’s case. Whenever you are ready to get down to business, let me know. I don’t really care what I win, it is just cool to win something every now and then. I am going to have to start visiting more often to see what other contest you have going on. Whatever you want to do, I am willing to accept.
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rosa (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 11:52 am Quote
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I checked mine for Gajemaster and I have a 3. I am excited about this.
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Page Rank jumped to a 3

October 30th, 2007 at 12:09 pm Quote
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[...] Not bad for a blog that hasn’t been out here for long huh? I was excited when I noticed this. I would have probably never noticed if I wouldn’t have won the contest over at Online Opportunity. [...]
Jay (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 1:26 pm Quote
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Jay wrote:

My blog started slightly earlier than Bloggingcents but I got “PR N/A”, I’m not even sure what that means? Is it = PR ZERO?
Could it be due to it being a .net instead of a .com?

.net versus .com shouldn’t have any effect. My understanding was the N/A was a temporary designation, and would be updated when the page rank for that site was updated. Maybe they just haven’t gotten around to updating yours yet?
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Jay (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 1:39 pm Quote
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Jay wrote:

I wish Google would come up with a less demoralizing text with the page rank of zero. For almost six months, if my cursor wandered to the PR icon, I’d read that zero is “the rating of the importance this site.”

Alternate text would be a great idea!

I’m not sure when the toolbar page rank will get updated, but you’re now showing as 3 in all the data centers, so it probably won’t be long now.
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Jay (Who am I?)

October 30th, 2007 at 2:49 pm Quote
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Jay wrote:

Whenever you are ready to get down to business, let me know. I don’t really care what I win, it is just cool to win something every now and then.

Okay, I’ll let you know when I get past my backlog. If you come up with something in the meantime that you think would be a suitable prize, let me know.
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Blogging The Movie (Who am I?)

October 31st, 2007 at 4:07 am Quote
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Good job on the PR score. It’s more really about creating readership through original content and I think you have done that quite well.

Are you going to Vegas Jay?
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Jay (Who am I?)

October 31st, 2007 at 6:52 am Quote
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No, I would have loved to have gone, but I’ll be taking a team of students to a programming contest that weekend.
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Betshopboy.net » PageRank Mood swings

November 4th, 2007 at 8:08 am Quote
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[...] – PR0 to PR3 EtienneTeo – PR0 to PR3 OnlineOpportunity – PR3 to PR4 Bloggingcents – PR0 to PR4 CashQuests – PR0 to PR5 Bloggingtune – PR0 to [...]
Gaje Master (Who am I?)

February 19th, 2008 at 3:26 am Quote
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Hey Jay, it’s me again. I completely forgot about this contest and if you are still interested, i think I know what I want. How about a guess post from you to add to my blog. I will even be nice enough to allow you to add your site to the post.lol. I figured that you are probably still busier than ever and I wanted something that would free me up for a day and would give you something easy to do. I guess you would call this easy. If you are interested, let me know. if you thought of something else, throw it my way. Anyways, let me know.
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Jay (Who am I?)

February 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am Quote
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I’m glad you remembered this, Rosa! I was trying to think the other day about what to give you as a prize, and came up blank. A guest post sounds like a great idea. Just give me a topic, and I’ll send you a post with a nice keyword based title.
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