PR Gyrations, Take Two
I admit that I check the Google Page Rank for various URLs in my portfolio on a regular basis. Today, I noticed that this blog’s PR started off at 4, went up to a 6, then back to a 5, before settling back down to a 4. The last time I mentioned PR Gyrations Google was in the process of doing one of its big updates and the same thing was happening: PR was all over the place.
You can even do a prediction of what your Page Rank will be once Google updates its information. iWebTool is one of a handful of sites that have a tool to predict future page rank. I don’t know if it is accurate, but it certainly is fun…and distracting!
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Out of all of the sites I have managed and administrated on, I have never used Google’s PR. I guess I felt that it isn’t really necessary. I mean, you can’t go off and say “Join my site, its rated PR 5″. The only time it would be useful is when you are trying to sell, which I would never be in a position to do, at least not now. I just let things go the way they are, and if my website is lacking in visitors, I will try to add something new to attract them.
[...] Less than a decade ago if you mentioned the term “PR” to mostly anyone they would have thought you were talking about public relations or perhaps a press release. Today, PR is used widely by those of us who have our own websites and are actively seeking to build them up by bringing in more traffic. We understand PR to represent the term “Page Rank” as in a system invented by perennial search engine king Google to measure our site’s performance. [...]