Today, helpinaflash went from a PR3 to PR1. I have been weeding out some potential duplicate content page but this is insane. I thought this could be a good opportunity to discuss PR. The PR or page rank can be obtained for any page using the Google toolbar. Google says that PR is an indication of the relative importance of a page. In some Google documents, PR sound like it could be tied to search ranking. In may internet users group, the most experienced guy says that PR is an indicator of crawl rate but it does not seem to track well with search engine ranking. In general PR is passed from one page to another with a minus one value. A link from a PR 8 site will should make you a PR7. This does seem to be true as far as I can see.
This would explain why PR is not directly associated with higher search engine rankings. Google search rank is based on number, age and PR of the back links so a single back link has little effect on the overall ranking of a site. Some older sites have tens of thousands of back links so one high PR does make much difference in the total equation.
I am currently running experiments on the high PR back links and will share them when they are complete.
2 responses so far ↓
Dave // Feb 27, 2007 at 4:49 am
“Google drives me crazy and makes me want to get a 9-5 job. ”
No, you can’t be serious!
angela // Mar 1, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Sometimes you have to take steps backwards in order to make progress forward. Maybe you should add a place where people can ask for DIY advice and then you can build your content with your answers. That may give you a feel for what kinds of info people are looking for.
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