This blog has Google Page Rank 3 and I don’t think I deserve it. I sound like I’m complaining but my point here is that I have another blog, PromdiLiving.com, which is a PR 0 but I think deserves a PR 3 instead of this one. I started both blogs at about the same time, November of 2007. I migrated all my posts from gladita.wordpress.com to PromdiLiving so basically it has more content and more links than RaketScience. I also update it more often.
My fault really is that I haven’t looked into how Google Page Rank works and I didn’t study Search Engine Optimization. So I don’t know how exactly this blog got a PR3. Probably becaue a lot of people are searching ‘make money‘ and ‘entrepreneurship‘ that’s why I get more hits. And if you Google ‘raket‘ you’ll get my blog on the front page. It’s just very fortunate that the word ‘raket’ is racket in another language.
In rating a blog as to importance I don’t think Google PR should be the only basis. As a reader I would value a blog based on it’s content. Do I get something from reading it? What if a blog owner is really good in SEO and has a site with a higher Page Rank yet the content is full of crap, would you still read it again?
Content and knowledge on SEO should go hand in hand. This is something that it not happening in this blog. I think my content is decent if I should base that on the amount of time I spent preparing them. But this blog just have no enough content to merit a Google PR3 which is why I think Google Page Rank is stupid.
I recognize the potential of a PR3 and I think I have neglected this blog long enough. That is stupidity on my part. So I’ll try to make up for my shortcomings and update this blog more often in order for me to say I deserve a PR3. A little SEO won’t hurt so I’ll also be digging my head into several SEO books from now on. Expect more changes from this blog.
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I guess the reason why you have a PR 0 on http://www.promdiliving.com/ is because you have too many ads in it. Google doesn’t like paid ads except for their own – Google Ads.
You may see some blogs that have ads and has PR in it, they are the popular ones already … or their ads are newly posted.
Hmmm.. that could be it and I also took some paid posts. Thanks gid for pointing that out.
Medyo feeling sikat man eh. Hehehe…it’s really worth learning SEO that’s why I requested you before if we can have a short talk on that come this December. It will be great for us to learn SEO from you guys who are quite familiar with it.
as of the moment, you are number 5 for the google search “raket”
efrenefrens last blog post..Malena (2000)
how do you know your google page rank?
efrenefrens last blog post..Malena (2000)
I know how to get the page rank already. And I agree with you that the results are not supposed to be that way. Maybe you should try another site that measures page rank.
May you have a good day.
efrenefrens last blog post..Malena (2000)
Thanks for visiting efren! I think it’s pure luck that I got the PR3. But I will still work hard to maintain that.
As of the moment, your technorati rating is 8. Mine is 4. I think that is a much more trusted measure of your popularity.
http://technorati.com/blogs/www.raketscience.com
Love your post!! Finally someone got it right!!! Would you mind if I put a blogroll link back to your post?
Yeah I agree, the PR is unPRedictable at times. I just lost my PR4. It went down to PR2 for a week then to Zero. I lost online opps – I don’t have ads on my website. Sayang. Any tips on SEO? What’s the easiest thing to do?