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07
Google Pagerank - It’s a Class System
The recent pagerank update compelled me to write this article. I am not going to write about whose PR went down and whose went up cause honestly I dont really care ;-). This does not imply that I myself don’t want a pagerank for my blog. As a matter of fact, its become more of a need than want. To be honest I have never liked the Pagerank system that google introduced a couple years ago. It defeats the purpose of maintaining the quality and integrity of a site as many of us solely build blogs and sites to gain that PR right away( popularity helps in quickly monetizing a website or a blog if you are serving advertisement ), ignoring the important fact such as content and other related things that makes a site worthy of anybody’s time.
So, what do I really mean by the the topic ” Google Pagerank - It’s a Class System “? Well, in the real world, society has been divided into two groups, upper class and lower class. Individuals with money are ranked at the top and middle and lower class are ranked at the bottom, this is the Societal rank we have all been categorized into in the real world. I find this very similar with websites and blogs now with google’s Pagerank system. A website that has a high PR is ranked on top and new websites that come out and are struggling take forever to gain that status. I just feel there is no need for this differentiation as I don’t see the purpose.
I have always been against the whole Pagerank system but like I said above its not a want, it has become a need. I started this blog about two and half months ago and now I would like to monetize it as well by serving ads. My content might, might not be as good as I would like it to be but if I want to serve ads gaining that rank status has become very important. There are enough classes and divisions among us and society in the real world already, do we really need one in the virtual world as well? Personally, I dont think so!
Google provides some of the best services on the net and honestly, I can’t imagine using the net without google’s services anymore. But this class system has got to go. Everywhere you go and everywhere you read, you find people panicking about pagerank ( including me ), how their pagerank went down and trying to find reasons as to why. I think the web would be much better place if this class system didn’t exist.
I am against Pagerank! What’s your take?
I personally think Google PR is over-rated.
You could have sub-standard content but many friends and still have high PR.
That alone shows the flaw in the system.
My take on Google Pagerank?
Take it or leave it to be honest…..far too much hype in my opinion.
Blog for the joy of blogging, not to achieve some mythical status.
–Steve
I see your against page rank as you are new without PR. PR when properly distributed is good for search engines as it helps determine trust and relevancy. Remember the big G is there first and foremost on search; that is what brings us there. If they start showing irrelevant searches people will look elsewhere.
If someone is catering to a keyword well and it’s a trusted link it should take some time for others to earn trust and get a shot at the position… All good things take time and there are always people who will start later and earlier than you so realize where you are and where you want to go.
Page Rank is a nice little badge for bragging rights. If you’re really into marketing you know it is not the only option out there.
Google and especially PR is a crutch for most.
My sites were untouched PR 0-3 and who knows if Google is done adjusting page ranks.
It’s interesting to read different views and perspective.
I do understand the fact that there needs to be a criteria for search engine to filter out the bad and weak sites but what I don’t get is why does that need to be public ( like pagerank, that shows status in the internet community ).
I dont remember having such criteria with Yahoo, Ask and all other search engines. They did have the certain factors to rate the sites and all that but I am not sure if they had anything that would give anybody a bragging right, my thought :-).
I honestly think the whole reason that Google made pagerank public was to bring out people’s competitive nature and make them strive for it, therefore keeping people in line in accordance to their guidelines. Pagerank doubles as a simple reward/demerit system, similar to the gold stars one would get in grade school and we all wanted those stupid shiny little stickers, didn’t we?
I refuse to kowtow to the oppressive regime Google is vastly becoming.
Google Schmoogle they are trying to take over the internet. They are already putting rules in with this pagerank thing. Break the rules and they punish you.(Big Google is watching you?)
I’m not against.
I don’t like link farms, where each site in the network provides hundreds of outgoing links on each page of the blog to other blogs in the network… only ads - without content.
And my PR is 5, so I’m happy.
Take care.
S*
I don’t know if Google’s page rank is a class system. My take on the PR system is that when some does a search, the relevant content in the results are sorted by the PR system. Although I am new to all of this, I could be wrong.
Not complaining (yet!) cos my PR went up, from a big zero to 2. LOL.
PR is just a badge. I had made a post that my parked domain test site now has a PR of 3, while my blog has a PR of 2. In my opinion PR is meaningless, because you can still rank highly in search engines for your key phrases.
It certainly is nice to see all you guys’s views and opinion regarding google’s pagerank system. thank you for sharing your thoughts
Well. I think it’s a bit wishy washy. People get punished sometimes unfairly. I’d do fine without it.
I don’t get how they calculate it. It’s google’s thing. I am not going to criticize them or anything but it is quite weird how some blogs that have been just parked and some that haven’e been updated for months got a boost on pagerank and others went down.
Like I said, I don’t care much about the PageRank and after the latest PR update a lot of people have started thinking the same way, I think. In my opinion, slowly the PR system will lose its charm.
As Google Search is a part of my life, I can’t complain about how they works….
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I honestly as a blogger do not know how pagerank benefits me.
Is it a stat counter for all the interlinks my blog has encountered or is it a jackpot prize total that I should be playing the lottery for?
Give us a lamens’ factual interpretation of how it affects my blog and adsense, and if significantly so, what do i do to increase my PageRank.
it ain’t so bad.. after all, what counts more is your content, SERP and visitors.. not some stupid number
BTW, I’m a (classical?) conservatist - I like hierarchy
It’s interesting to read this post and all the comments shared by the readers. I have learned a little from each of you and piece the PR ranking together.
Have a great weekend.
Ritub, you have a great new blog and I have given you a thumbs up!
Google PR has nothing to do with ranking in the listing for keywords. It has everything to do with quality of usefulness, which is determined by the PR of pages with links to your site, and vice versa. NOT by the number links of other pages to you. I have one site with a PR of 1 that is on top for it’s keywords.
PR was actually a clever design by google, to make people strive to get better ranks in a way, that used OTHER search engine methods of determining site value, in order to lower the quality of other search engine’s search results.
That’s how smart/evil google is.