Comments on: Google Page Rank – Are you obsessed with the little green bar? http://www.evosuccess.com/google-page-rank-are-you-obsessed-with-the-little-green-bar Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jasmine http://www.evosuccess.com/google-page-rank-are-you-obsessed-with-the-little-green-bar/comment-page-1#comment-3441 Jasmine Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:03:18 +0000 http://www.evosuccess.com/uncategorized/google-page-rank-are-you-obsessed-with-the-little-green-bar#comment-3441 It is true that having relevant and trust-worthy backlinks will help in the ranking. In fact, if the site had been linked to irrelevant or some spammed sites, Google will give the site a lower ranking. (This might be true for some free advertising websites.) Also, if you have links to other website, do check out if the links are still relevant and existing, because you wouldnt like to be linked to some spammed sites too. Perhaps, the pagerank in the toolbar is just an indication, but it just looked suspicious to me, because if there are difference in different websites, then there might be something which can be exploited. It is just my opinion. It is true that having relevant and trust-worthy backlinks will help in the ranking. In fact, if the site had been linked to irrelevant or some spammed sites, Google will give the site a lower ranking. (This might be true for some free advertising websites.)

Also, if you have links to other website, do check out if the links are still relevant and existing, because you wouldnt like to be linked to some spammed sites too.

Perhaps, the pagerank in the toolbar is just an indication, but it just looked suspicious to me, because if there are difference in different websites, then there might be something which can be exploited. It is just my opinion.

]]> By: Larry Lim http://www.evosuccess.com/google-page-rank-are-you-obsessed-with-the-little-green-bar/comment-page-1#comment-3406 Larry Lim Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:00:35 +0000 http://www.evosuccess.com/uncategorized/google-page-rank-are-you-obsessed-with-the-little-green-bar#comment-3406 The Pagerank is an indication of how important/trust-worthy your website is according to Google. It doesn't affect how often you get crawled - I have a PR6 website that doesn't get crawled as often as a PR4. Why are webmasters buying links? It's generally agrred that your rankings in search results are "mostly" determined by the number of backlinks - not just any backlinks BUT relevant and trust-worthy ones. Since the Pagerank indicates the "trust-worthiness" of a site, getting a link from a high Pagerank site counts towards a bigger vote - hence, the buying of high Pagerank links. The reason why Google put the Pagerank in the toolbar was to let users know what they (Google) thought of a webpage, i.e. it was not meant for webmasters to "game" the search results. The Pagerank is updated only once in every 3-4 months, hence it really isn't very useful because Google themselves use a seperate internal Pagerank that is constantly updated. The Pagerank is an indication of how important/trust-worthy your website is according to Google. It doesn’t affect how often you get crawled – I have a PR6 website that doesn’t get crawled as often as a PR4.

Why are webmasters buying links?

It’s generally agrred that your rankings in search results are “mostly” determined by the number of backlinks – not just any backlinks BUT relevant and trust-worthy ones.

Since the Pagerank indicates the “trust-worthiness” of a site, getting a link from a high Pagerank site counts towards a bigger vote – hence, the buying of high Pagerank links.

The reason why Google put the Pagerank in the toolbar was to let users know what they (Google) thought of a webpage, i.e. it was not meant for webmasters to “game” the search results. The Pagerank is updated only once in every 3-4 months, hence it really isn’t very useful because Google themselves use a seperate internal Pagerank that is constantly updated.

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