Sat 26 Jul 2008
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I don’t pretend to understand the math of Page Rank (I spent too much time at the back of the class drawing) but I think I can visualise it adequately enough to heat up a website. Is PR the ‘trick’ to make sure your pages are in the main Google results index and have forums got what it takes these days?
From this latest update, I think I am seeing PR the way it used to work, just not as deep and linear. I’m seeing this on this site and others.
It seems to work as expected at page one, secondary pages, even a page or so down…. but then it seems to drop significantly. Well it feels as if it does.
You used to be able to read PR so linear, PR 7 – PR 6 – Pr 5 – Pr 4 etc. It feels differently a couple of levels down. Hardly scientific I know.
If this is the case, perhaps it might explain why I see pages with a lot of forums links, with anomalous low Toolbar Page Rank Scores. These pages were just above the site PR at that hierarchy, as you would expect from pages with external back links.
Of course every forum is different and every page is different, but it might explain what I am seeing – perhaps PR isn’t providing the benefit to deep pages in the forum structure?
This is conjecture obviously.
Remember I mean ‘visible’ toolbar pr.
hola Scotland.
there doesn’t seem to be much reason in the way it works lately at all does there? we have pages you’d expect to have greenery still greyed out, and some you wouldn’t expect much from at PR4.
I’ve always thought the best link out from most forums is from your profile, and the RSS feeds on posts might still be useful.
Hola Ibiza – I used to use forum links all the time. It’s identifying the strongest pages on the forum that’s the time consuming bit. Oh, and at the time, I didn’t care the post was a year old sort of thing – i was ‘mining for pagerank’.
I don’t linkbuild via forums for Page Rank any more – only topically similar forums for anchor text relevance or discovery links and even then it’s so small scale.
I just don’t think forums pass that much visible PR these days.
Toolbar is not really to be trusted though – it’s too buggy (and they made it that way on purpose)
A matter of fact, i do not really focus on building PR because it makes a webmaster loses focus on performing SEO. My advice: Do not spend too much time studying the PR because everything changes over time, however real and informative content stays permanent.
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