Comments on: My New Obsession with PageRank

By: Murray Todd Williams

Murray Todd Williams — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:15:01 +0000

Actually, Anthony, the time you spend adding comments to blogs was probably done in vain. Almost every major blogging application sets the rel=”nofollow” attribute to peoples’ website URLs that they put in their comments (and all hyperlinks they put in their comments as well), and as you may or may not know, rel=”nofollow” basically tells web crawlers like Google’s NOT to use the addresses in the PageRanking algorithm.

As for the BBB, if you were listed among hundreds or thousands of other businesses—even if they were spread around a few to a page, Google’s crawler will dilute the ranking down to almost nothing. It’s only valuable to be on someone’s “links” page if there aren’t too many others there as well. If you appear on the homepage of a popular website, however, however, you’ll get the highest effect.

It’s an interesting “black art”, huh?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:09:51 +0000

I thought I was cool because I have a PageRank of 5, because I spent a few days posting comments like this to blogs… but I think I just discovered that the mean reason I got a 5 is that I joined the BBB which has a 9 and links back to me.

By: Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:14:49 +0000

By the way, no need to install the Google Toolbar (which I refuse — like I need extra clutter apps on my junk-loaded PC).

I just use this freebie to check PageRank:

http://pr.blogflux.com/

By: Vera Nazarian

Vera Nazarian — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:12:00 +0000

Hmm, both my domain and my SFF Net personal website have a PageRank of 5. I thought that was average?

If not, then, neato!