Guess some of us are frustrated with the PageRank (PR) updates recently. I didn’t care about PR before I joined any $ponsorship campaigns. But when getting your blog approved by such campaigns requires certain PR, I started to be alert. However, you see, Mr. Google is unhappy with such things and finally I got my penalty.
This incident has haunted me the whole day. I was really upset. But look at the good side, in a short time, I get more people to comment in my blog, including famous people like HongKiat and Revell.
So, who do you think can have a full PR of 10?
Google itself, of course! Rival Yahoo! gets a 9. LOL
Being so frustrated, Orange and I decided to play a game - betting. We were betting on the PR of several popular sites!
We logon DigPageRank and think of a domain name. Being a fan of DeviantArt, I suggested that we check on it’s PR. We said before hand that, who ever guess wrong will be tickled. (Both of us scare to be tickled) I said 8, and Orange said 7. And it turned out to be 7!!! I was being tickled at the first round.
The second round, we bet on the famous video sharing community - YouTube. Once again, I said 8. Maybe Orange thought that YouTube belongs to Google or for don’t know what reason, he said 9! I won! I won! It’s PR is 8!! My turn to tickle him. He laughed till nearly fall off from the chair.
It was fun! And after doing some research on the PageRank, I feel much better. I don’t care if PR is of useful anymore. Because you know, someone out there, might be building FAKE PR! You can easily raise your PR by using the Black Hat SEO method.
There’s a site where you can register and submit your blog, and get an instant PR of 4. Or you can simply add a code in your .htacess file to redirect the header to a high PR site. All these are faking and can get your blog banned from Google.
So, tell me. Is PR so important now? Since people can have a fake PR. I rather concentrate on writing quality contents. Happy Blogging~
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January 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Im glad that ur ok now~~
January 17th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Haha, you can think like this good le…
January 17th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Howdy ? Hope u always healthy and happy. Of course PR is so important my fren. Actually PR is not to brag, to show off, useless to show off. But the important is, when our PR is high, then blog links can get in higher rank in Google’s index. So people are more easy to find our blog if the search at search engine especially Google.
So what ever, PR still the inmportant thing my fren, because Google made it so
Don;t be afraid, Google will update our PR every 4 or 5 month. Just play clean, always update blog, good quality content, i’m sure u can raise your blog’s PR again.
All the best and gud luck in what ever u do
Peace n justice for all …….
January 17th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Oo one more thing, i think maybe you put Payperpost’s badge too before right? PPP is giving people lots of trouble including me. I hope for those still not put away PPP badge, please do so. Coz Google don;t like that badge
January 17th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
LOL I like your comic man!! what to do this is Google Page Rank…. of course won’t give Yahoo to 10/10 what
January 17th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I don’t really care actually since my contents are localized and it really doesn’t affect my readers within Malaysia. Furthermore I’m an idiot in SEO and my contents are not organized properly. So what to expect? My PR started from 3 then to 2 now back to 3, unless I can maintain the momentum of producing quality content, if not I think there is thin hope for my PR to rise… =p
Don’t worry, be happy!
January 17th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Glad that. You know PR is nth. Just commercial!!
your readers wont care about your PR.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
I dun care about your PR too. Happy that you are ok and having fun with your orange.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Only my blog without paid post get pr, the rest with paid post writing smacked by google, get pr0. so sad!
January 18th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Thanks everyone. Thank you for your support. I’m pleased.
@Forumer,
Thanks. For your information, I didn’t do any review from PPP, neither do I put their badge in my blog before.
@MerDuriaN,
Thanks for liking my comic..haha
@Eric,
It’s very obvious that Google wanna monopolized the Internet market
January 18th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Hey.. I can’t access my blog in school. They block it. So sad. Btw.. I dun study in Chinese school. But my family exposes me to all the chinese newspapers, listen to chinese songs and talk mandarin at home. That’s why my English broken, my Mandarin broken and my BM also broken. hahahahah… semua half bucket! Good topic for my next post. Yeah.. ppl needs to know me better.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:55 am
i notice one thing, my old blog in blogspot got PR 2. means they do count the main domain in their score. dun bother la, PR is not tat important anyway (since not standardize)…
January 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Been PR 2 before and smacked down to PR 0 in 1 month time..but still am surviving..so..to me, no different also..
January 19th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Opss… I got 0 of 10 too!!! How come?? last time I still got 2 of 10. But after moving from blogger to wordpress, then I get 0!!! Is google hate wordpress??
January 20th, 2008 at 8:41 am
@Choonie,
Oic, that’s pretty cool.
@alvin,
Haha, my blogspot has a PR3, but according to digpagerank.com, it’s a fake one. I don’t know why, maybe because I set my blogspot URL to redirect to my domain?
@babyfiona,
yea..because you are still getting bucks
@Darren,
Like what alvin said, PR atually counts from your domain name. Since you just setup your domain recently, it’s very normal to get a 0 as the initial PR. Don’t worry.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hahahaha…very funny post! I’m far from famous but this post really brought me a smile. Your page rank will be whatever they give you.
I have had many friends who passed me up in rank and now don’t read my blog even after it was me who taught them how to gain PR. Mine remains 0 and I hope it does forever. Thanks so much Apple!
January 24th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
@Bobby,
You’re welcome. Don’t worry, you really have a lot of great content in your blog. And I love some of your quotes about the blogging passion.