Re: Google PR confusion

Lazaroo wrote:

A few months ago I tried learning the art of Mugu Baiting (see
http://www.419baiter.com/ for explanation of what it is).

As part of the project I created some baiting email accounts and forwarded
all the junk I got into a blog for easy access
(http://mugumail.blogspot.com/).

There are no backward links to the blog and I have attemped no SEO on it.

However, it has a page ranking of 3 which is higher than that of any of my
other sites, all of which actually contain real content.

Does anyone know how this can happen?

Any Blogger blog gets a few links to it as standard - your profile page
is listed somewhere and even if you haven't set it up, it has a link to
your blog on it. Every time you post (or your system does) your blog
comes up on the Blogger list of recently updated pages, that's another
link, and unless you turned it off it will tell Weblogs.com that you've
updated it and that sets up another link to it.

Also, on the header bar on Blogspot blogs there is a link to the 'next'
blog, so that might count as well, but I'm not sure.

All those together are probably enough to get you PR 3, especially if
you are updating often as that sets up more links on the high PR listing
pages. Once you're in the archives of the listings pages they're
generally very low PR.

It would seem your other sites don't have enough links to them, as it's
very easy to get to PR4 with a few links from some other websites.


Paul
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Paul Silver - freelance web developer
http://www.paulsilver.co.uk

Paul Silver wrote:

Lazaroo wrote:
A few months ago I tried learning the art of Mugu Baiting (see
http://www.419baiter.com/ for explanation of what it is).

As part of the project I created some baiting email accounts and
forwarded all the junk I got into a blog for easy access
(http://mugumail.blogspot.com/).

There are no backward links to the blog and I have attemped no SEO on it.

However, it has a page ranking of 3 which is higher than that of any of
my other sites, all of which actually contain real content.

Does anyone know how this can happen?

Any Blogger blog gets a few links to it as standard - your profile page
is listed somewhere and even if you haven't set it up, it has a link to
your blog on it. Every time you post (or your system does) your blog
comes up on the Blogger list of recently updated pages, that's another
link, and unless you turned it off it will tell Weblogs.com that you've
updated it and that sets up another link to it.

Also, on the header bar on Blogspot blogs there is a link to the 'next'
blog, so that might count as well, but I'm not sure.

All those together are probably enough to get you PR 3, especially if
you are updating often as that sets up more links on the high PR listing
pages. Once you're in the archives of the listings pages they're
generally very low PR.

It would seem your other sites don't have enough links to them, as it's
very easy to get to PR4 with a few links from some other websites.

This comes to show how flawed (or capable of being improved) the PageRank
system actually is. The feeds, profile and all of that malarkey are just
tools of getting unjustified popularity. When we search the Web, we want to
get relevant pages which have reliable content. Clearly this doesn't work.
The very existence of this term - search engine optimisation - implies that
there is a problem.

You want search engines to like you? Write better stuff. (in an ideal world
at least)

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
http://Schestowitz.com