Oct 31 2007
The Long Awaited Page Rank Update
After a lot of discussion and many different opinions as to what was going to happen with page rank, it has been updated. Even I was wondering about the return or new update of page rank, but I was not let down. Although some people believe PR status has been diluted because of selling links and everything, I disagree. If you notice, not every active blogger’s page rank increased. In fact, some took a dive, but please do not directly correlate page rank to success.
So, How Did Online Cash Flow Do?
I was very excited to see that the page rank of my blog has gone from 0 to 3! Of course I was expecting a higher rank, but like it stated there was not a 100% chance of that PR4 occurring. Still, I am very happy with the success and growth of this blog.
I checked at a few different sites to make sure, and saw similar results throughout.
What Does A Page Rank Of 3 Mean?
Well, after a little research at www.checkpagerank.com, I noticed a few very interesting things. First of all, John Chow, one of the more influential bloggers in the make money niche, only has a PR4 blog! Problogger is sitting with a great PR6, but there were a few statistics that interested me. A number of blogs that receive substantial traffic, are right around my page rank. Of course I get a decent amount of traffic, but nothing like John Cow or Net Business Blog. Both of those bloggers also have a page rank of 3. Anyways, let’s hope that this PR increase fares well and helps increase traffic and grows the Online Cash Flow community.
Personal Page Rank Opinions
The main reason for the drop in page rank on a number of people’s websites, was because they were selling links. Because of that, a variety of people believed that the page rank status was diluted and would not hold a significant meaning anymore. I disagree with that, and here is why. If you were selling links, your page rank was hacked. If you sold links discreetly or not at all, your page rank increased (if you were taking the proper measures to do so) and I believe that page rank holds more significance now with the threat of decreasing due to selling links. It will be a lot more difficult to increase now unless you are doing it properly or being discreet. Either way, I am excited with the update and hope to see increases in the future.
Did anybody else see changes in their page ranks?
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congrats for ur blog PR
keep up with the good posting
hope to see a pr 4 or 5 on ur blog on the next update
Thanks for the encouragement. The goal is to keep improving! Best of luck.
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