Comments on: Google Page Rank – Sometimes it’s a Joke… http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/ Phoenix Real Estate - Anything & Everything About It. Plus Random Musings... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Roy Hunter http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-83359 Roy Hunter Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:52:20 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-83359 PR is worthless, I have a PR of Zero and out-rank sites in my market with a PR or 4. Totally useless metric. <a href="http://mysarasotafloridahomes.com/">Sarasota Real Estate</a> PR is worthless, I have a PR of Zero and out-rank sites in my market with a PR or 4. Totally useless metric.

Sarasota Real Estate

]]> By: Jose Lopez http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-42767 Jose Lopez Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:08:33 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-42767 Wow! I guess I have a lot to learn. I always thought that PR is the holy grail for backlinks. The higher, the better. I just completed my website and I am actually paying an SEO guy to promote it, but the results are not what I thought they would be. If you have a moment check it out and let me know what you think. Jose Lopez <a href="http://www.sellsarasota.com/sarasota-foreclosures.html/">Sarasota Foreclosures</a> Wow! I guess I have a lot to learn. I always thought that PR is the holy grail for backlinks. The higher, the better. I just completed my website and I am actually paying an SEO guy to promote it, but the results are not what I thought they would be. If you have a moment check it out and let me know what you think.

Jose Lopez

Sarasota Foreclosures

]]> By: Mike Stewart, Downto http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-42143 Mike Stewart, Downto Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:43:32 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-42143 Hi Jay, Great article! PR is a tempting thing to be infatuated with (I kinda am) but I find that when I am testing my SEO efforts , you are right it doesn't really have that huge an effect on what shows up on Google. There are realtors in my market who have publicized their PR and they're sites don't show up often... Thanks! Hi Jay,

Great article!

PR is a tempting thing to be infatuated with (I kinda am) but I find that when I am testing my SEO efforts , you are right it doesn't really have that huge an effect on what shows up on Google.

There are realtors in my market who have publicized their PR and they're sites don't show up often…

Thanks!

]]> By: Ken Jansen http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-39165 Ken Jansen Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:19:59 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-39165 Hi Jay, thanks for the nice article. I learned from it. I think I got some out of date advice from another agent, so I was doing a little homework. You cleared it up for me. Thanks! Ken Jansen REALTOR Overland Park KS Hi Jay, thanks for the nice article. I learned from it. I think I got some out of date advice from another agent, so I was doing a little homework. You cleared it up for me.

Thanks!

Ken Jansen REALTOR Overland Park KS

]]> By: Austin Texas Real Es http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-11630 Austin Texas Real Es Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:31:57 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-11630 I'm fairly new to the world of SEO, but I think that PR has pretty much no significance. In my book, I'm more concerned w/ actual ranking for keywords - where you land on the SERPs. As far as PR, I think it's good for bragging rights, and bragging rights only. I'm fairly new to the world of SEO, but I think that PR has pretty much no significance. In my book, I'm more concerned w/ actual ranking for keywords – where you land on the SERPs. As far as PR, I think it's good for bragging rights, and bragging rights only.

]]> By: Bill French http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10927 Bill French Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:50:29 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10927 Jay: I could be wrong, but I think page rank is factoring in all content on ???.blogspot.com and pushing this particular subdomain up. Since this blog is a subdomain of a larger domain (blogspot.com, about 2 million blogs), I suspect it gets some undeserved attention. It's also important to point out that Google owns Blogspot. ;-) In any case, I agree - PR is a bit overstated; you're better off going insane watching the DOW. bf Jay:

I could be wrong, but I think page rank is factoring in all content on ???.blogspot.com and pushing this particular subdomain up. Since this blog is a subdomain of a larger domain (blogspot.com, about 2 million blogs), I suspect it gets some undeserved attention. It's also important to point out that Google owns Blogspot. ;-)

In any case, I agree – PR is a bit overstated; you're better off going insane watching the DOW.

bf

]]> By: Tim O'Keefe http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10897 Tim O'Keefe Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:07:31 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10897 re :http://www.naplesflorida.blogspot.com/ Doing backlinks in Google is a waste of time. He has 60 backlinks to his index page . Check Yahoo or MSN as they will show many of the links. <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link:http://www.naplesflorida.blogspot.com/">http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link:http://www....</a> -site:blogspot.com You could also check the internal pages backlinks. PR does matter along with a ton of other stuff. It does not matter like 3 years ago however, where all you needed was a title tag and high PR. Tim O'Keefe <a href="http://www.houseblogger.com/">Marketing Online for real estate</a> re :http://www.naplesflorida.blogspot.com/

Doing backlinks in Google is a waste of time.

He has 60 backlinks to his index page .

Check Yahoo or MSN as they will show many of the links.
http://www.naplesflorida.blogspot.com/“>http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link:http://www…. -site:blogspot.com

You could also check the internal pages backlinks.

PR does matter along with a ton of other stuff. It does not matter like 3 years ago however, where all you needed was a title tag and high PR.

Tim O'Keefe

Marketing Online for real estate

]]> By: Justin Smith http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10895 Justin Smith Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:08:12 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10895 It looks like that RE blog you are talking about has around 100 incoming links that are published by the SE's, and a few of them are PR 5 and higher... that would probably explain the PR 4. But you are definately right, it's a shame that a site like that would have any PR at all. It's good that Google doesn't rank sites based soley on PR because if they did, we'd all be in big trouble. It's just one of many ranking factors. I think when you get into the higher PR's like 6-9... it is a much better indication of a quality (or at least popular) site. It looks like that RE blog you are talking about has around 100 incoming links that are published by the SE's, and a few of them are PR 5 and higher… that would probably explain the PR 4.

But you are definately right, it's a shame that a site like that would have any PR at all.

It's good that Google doesn't rank sites based soley on PR because if they did, we'd all be in big trouble. It's just one of many ranking factors. I think when you get into the higher PR's like 6-9… it is a much better indication of a quality (or at least popular) site.

]]> By: Jay - The Phoenix Re http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10892 Jay - The Phoenix Re Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:22:06 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10892 Thanks for the link to Aaron's blog REBlogGirl, it's a wealth of great info!! Thanks for the link to Aaron's blog REBlogGirl, it's a wealth of great info!!

]]> By: REBlogGirl http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10890 REBlogGirl Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:18:15 +0000 http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/google-page-rank-sometimes-its-a-joke/#comment-10890 Excellent piece on page rank and thanks for the shout out to RSSPieces. One of the other great resources for Page Rank and general SEO advice is the uber guru, Aaron Wall of <a href="http://www.seobook.com">www.seobook.com</a>. He really breaks down what Page Rank really means and how unimportant it is in the scheme of things. If you have quality content, growing backlinks and a solid linkbait strategy, eventually you will grow your page rank. It's the chicken and the egg scenario- you have to have the traffic, the links and do the time before PR will grow- but once it does- it will exponentially help you increase in the Search engine results pages. Excellent piece on page rank and thanks for the shout out to RSSPieces. One of the other great resources for Page Rank and general SEO advice is the uber guru, Aaron Wall of http://www.seobook.com. He really breaks down what Page Rank really means and how unimportant it is in the scheme of things. If you have quality content, growing backlinks and a solid linkbait strategy, eventually you will grow your page rank. It's the chicken and the egg scenario- you have to have the traffic, the links and do the time before PR will grow- but once it does- it will exponentially help you increase in the Search engine results pages.

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