Page Ranks And Your Thoughts About Them...

[babymaker]

how can u find your real PR is there a tool or a code to add in the search of the site??

[DangerDave]

Well..... There are reasons your "site" is NOT PR6.... but I was waiting for one of our many Google gurus and "SEO's" to tell you why.......

hmmmmm..

DD

[babymaker]

got whacked today anyway lol that crappy site it back to its rightfull pr2 lol. oh well.

[spacemanspiff]

Here's the way I see it.

First, the PR calculation gets fubar sometimes, so you'll see sites with a PR6 and have no idea why. Eventually it all gets sorted out though.

Second, when you see a PR6, that's just a graphical representation of PR6.42376539763 or maybe a 5.8425965824 or something like that. I don't know how they round the numbers off, but they do. Two sites that are showing PR6 don't really have the same page rank.

Third PR (as seen in the toolbar) is only one of many factors that determines where your page places (how your page "ranks") for a given search. I think this may be what Linkster was getting at.

Just my theory

[Linkster]

Originally posted by spacemanspiff
There's a theory that google only spiders so many links on a page, like the first 100 or so. I don't know if that's the number, or even if it's true at all. Some say it's a text thing, like the first x number of characters..

Just did a little check on someone that I know is backlinking to me at the bottom of a page - Im the 304th link on the page, and it's definitely showing in my new backlinks - the page itself is 82k

[spacemanspiff]

Originally posted by Linkster
Just did a little check on someone that I know is backlinking to me at the bottom of a page - Im the 304th link on the page, and it's definitely showing in my new backlinks - the page itself is 82k

That's good info to have, Linkster. I looked at a few a while back, and saw that my links at the bottom of longer pages were not showing in the backlinks, but it was very unscientific so I didn't draw any conclusions from it. Just a hmmmm.....

I know for sure that the backlinks google shows aren't accurate, and could even be something they sit around and laugh at when SEO's start making a big fuss over 'em.

Kinda supports my theory of "just do quality link trades and don't drive yourself nuts with the details."

[urb]

PR doesn't work like it used to, and so I am confused as to what is going on (nothing new).

I have a site which was linked to by a PR5 and a PR4 and I expected to get a PR4 or PR3 from this.

It only made PR2, which I thought was lower than the old days.... but hey!

So I decided that because the target keyword was too hard to manage with a PR2, I would not bother to waste a link from the PR5 on it and wind the site down, as the idea for the site was not too profitable anyway.

So I pull the PR5 link and then about 2 months later, the site still has PR2, but has managed to get into the top 20 for the keyword I wanted, and has one PR4 backward link.

[Syke]

ive seen an increase in se traffic overall since my site went from pr2 to pr4, maybe coincidence.. don't know.