After last week’s Google events, I figure it’s worth reporting page ranks (whatever they may mean.) Here are PR for my blogs:
- BBB has toolbar page rank of 3. This is up from none.
Does it deserve a PR=3? Beats me. Obviously, the answer to this question depends on what page rank is supposed to mean, what the metrics are supposed to measure and what ranks other bloggers were given. In many cases, I know the answer to the final question, but not the first. I also have no idea what the answers to the first two questions might be.
- My knitting blog, has a toolbar page rank of 3. It had a page rank of PR= 5 last March and dropped to PR4 during that update. I noticed the page rank of many knitting blogs dropped at that time. My blog’s page rank dropped to 2 last week, and is now back up to 3.
Does it deserve a PR=3? Or PR4? Or PR2? Once again, who knows? I’ve been neglecting that blog mostly because the knitting has been going slowly. It has quite a few links to internal pages because they are a unique resources for knitters. The top blog page has quite a few editorial links in sidebars because that’s what non-monetized knitting blogs do.)
- My diet blog– which I started, totally abandoned, and doesn’t have many links has a toolbar page rank of 2.
Does it deserve a PR=2? That blog probably deserves a lower page rank!
Of course, if I wanted to make money, I should be working on developing the diet blog because dieting is easy to monetize. Even with a PR of 2, it would be fairly easy to sell hidden links, affiliate advertising and PPC adveritizing. Unfortunately, the topic bores the heck out of me! I’d rather work a few more hours on my real job than spend those hours writing about dieting.
So, that’s about it!
Lucia, I loved this post, and even “discovered” it with Stumble. Thank goodness someone else doesn’t understand all the biz about page rank, ’cause I don’t either. My blog, Telling It Like It Is, also got a PR=3, but I simply shrugged my shoulders and moved on since I don’t get it. Yet.
Lucia, I can’t comment on your other two blogs (I don’t know anything about those niches) but I think BBB should be higher. I’m a bit embarrased because my blog came out at PR4 and the DualFeeds plugin page seems to be PR5. When I compare that to BBB and Linky Love (both PR3), there just seems to be something wrong. I know you have more content, backlinks, plugin users, than I do.
Actually, I’ve just had a quick look around and it seems other good sites like Untwisted Vortex and the Cayman Host are PR3 as well. So maybe I’m wrong and BBB shouldn’t be higher – it might be that mine should be lower. But whatever, something is definitely wrong here.
Stephen– Thanks for the kind words! I can’t say I’m unhappy with the 3. Mostly, I think after last week, it’s actually worthwhile to comment and record the value. I think we’ll all need to wait and see what happens next week!
Yeah, every week might be different! What are hidden links and PPC?
@Gizmo – I wasn’t very precise this morning. By “hidden links”, I was thinking “paid links where I don’t reveal that I got paid”. The links themselves would be entirely visible.
PPC is Pay Per Click. Diet blogs do ok on adsense/ kontera etc. because there are many commercial products to sell in that niche, and dieters are curious enough to click the links. Meta blogs about making money blogging don’t do as well.
Hmm… ok so bloggers on the Blogger platform in strong link clinking niches need a Kontera plugin that keeps Kontera out of the paid posts. Not dieting but strong on knitting and fiber!
Lucia, I’ve just done my first sponsored post and I’m looking at other monetization techniques, so I might be dragged back soon!