Page Ranks
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A friend called me earlier telling me that her page rank (on Google) dropped sharply. When looking at my two most visited pages I found that their page rank was either negligible or they were not ranked at all. Both of them get hundreds of hits every month and rank on top of all major search engines.
That really got me thinking. Most people will not link to a page that shows up on top of search results. Why should they? One click in the search engine and you’ll have the link. On the other hand, if the site from which the result came drops in ranking—how will that influence the result? Recently I read an article (sorry, do not have the link handy) in which the author stated that some 75% of the search results were stolen content; with the original content ranking lower most of the time.
Now, I bet you that some of the content thefts were ranked higher than the original.
And, what is the value of a page rank when the most visited pages are ranked lower than the site they are on? And how is your page rank influenced by splogs?
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A friend called me earlier telling me that her page rank (on Google) dropped sharply. When looking at my two most visited pages I found that their page rank was either negligible or they were not ranked at all. Both of them get hundreds of hits every month and rank on top of all major search engines.
That really got me thinking. Most people will not link to a page that shows up on top of search results. Why should they? One click in the search engine and you’ll have the link. On the other hand, if the site from which the result came drops in ranking—how will that influence the result? Recently I read an article (sorry, do not have the link handy) in which the author stated that some 75% of the search results were stolen content; with the original content ranking lower most of the time.
Now, I bet you that some of the content thefts were ranked higher than the original.
And, what is the value of a page rank when the most visited pages are ranked lower than the site they are on? And how is your page rank influenced by splogs?
Is searching the way it works broken?
Are page ranks nothing more than a relic from the past?
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