I don’t normally pay too much attention to my Google Page Rank, well that is since it hit a 3 forever ago because once it’s a 3 you are pretty much good to go with any paid opportunities and paid sponsors for your blog. When my Page Rank hit a 4 I was kind of excited & I thought … wow “I must know what I am doing on the back end with SEO” and well that made me happy.
Lately in the past year my blog page rank has fluctuated from 4 to 3 then back to 4 again so often I have to wonder what is going on with Google Page Rank?! Based on many articles and blog posts I have read and things I heard in sessions at Type-A Parent Conference I realize that Google has it’s own little formula it uses to create your websites rank, however, due to tricky spammers and hackers learning how to get their ranks super high Google has started to work hard at changing how they rank websites to ensure that quality content is being ranked high, instead of those sites who have “cheated” the system so to speak.
This means that no one person will ever know for sure how Google is ranking websites because the formula is often changed to keep up to date with the latest “tricks” by those who pay to get their sites up there in the high ranks of Google.
All I know is that if my rank goes back down to a 3 it usually is because I stopped optimizing my blog posts and so I start doing that again and within a short period of time my rank is back to a 4. By the way, in the beginning of this post I said I don’t usually pay much attention to my rank anymore, and I don’t, but a great blogger I read as often as I can is such a dear friend that she stops by my Facebook profile every so often when the rank is changed to discuss this with me. You should stop by and read her blog because she is a really kind hearted person and I love what she writes!
I use the Platinum SEO Plugin for SEO of my blog, but some themes have SEO built in which the theme I use has SEO built in, however, I haven’t had time to go through and use it yet so I can remove some “extra” plugins.
What are your feelings on SEO and Google Page Rank? DO you think they are playing tricks with us sometimes?
I’m still learning about google page ranking and hopping that my page ranking will increase so that I’ll be able to get more sponsored post and increase revenue via the blog. Thanks for the shout out.. greatly appreciated.
I kinda like the non-pressure of having a lower page rank so that I don’t feel like I need to maintain a high one. LOL
Congrats on the bump in PR. I read Matt Cutt’s blog (a Google employee who posts Google tidbits on their behalf) so I know they change the formula all the time but I was a 3 when I was a .blogspot and dropped to a 0 when I bought my domain. That was last Sept. I just went up to a 4 with the last update so I don’t know if it’s a prank or what but I’ll enjoy the PR4 opps while I can! lol
I’ve never used Platinum SEO so I don’t know well it works or how user friendly it is but a great SEO plugin I use is from Joost called Yoast WordPress SEO. It has EVERYTHING from breadcrumbs to custom SEO for individual posts to controlling how your blog is indexed by various search engines. I’m not sure if it’s in the WP directory yet since I got it when it was in development but I LOVE it and found it much easier to use than All In One SEO which is what I used before. I was able to remove some of the extra plugins when I made the switch which was another bonus for me. I already have too many plugins! 😀
They are with me that's for sure. So frustrating. RT @brandyellen
New blog Post: Google Page Rank Playing Tricks? http://t.co/iFtUf6R
I will never understand google!
New blog Post: Google Page Rank Playing Tricks? http://ow.ly/1dUbMn
HATE google PR and they obviously dislike me and my blog immensely, oh well. I know what I write is worth something to my readers, so I really try not to care about page rank. I have plenty of followers and readers. I am a big FAT ZERO. Ha! 😉
RT @brandyellen: Google Page Rank Playing Tricks? http://t.co/oUTHN4A
I wish once your blog hit a level it didn’t go down. I recently went from a 3 to a 2 and I am not happy about it!
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