Comments on: Hey Baby, What’s Your PageRank? …and other bad pickup lines.

By: Daiv Russell

Daiv Russell — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:19:43 +0000

Each page has its own unique PageRank. If a site has a high PageRank on the homepage, but poor PR on an internal page, this generally means that they’re not linking very effectively from their homepage to the rest of the site. A well intra-linked site would have around the same PageRank on most of the pages – generally excepting the privacy page and similiar “overhead” pages not intended to attract traffic.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:11:56 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. One open question is whether it matters which page on another site links to to your site. For example, if a site’s homepage has a PR of 6, but the page in which they list their partners (and where our site would be referenced) is a PR of 2, will Google count that as linking to a site with PR of 2 or 6? Thanks in advance. Also, do you know of a tool where you can find all the links that currently come from other sites to your own?

By: Rob - Former Fat Guy

Rob - Former Fat Guy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:36:58 +0000

GREAT post title. And what a great pick up line. Depends on the locale I guess, and the end results you’re looking for.

By: Gerald Weber Search Engine Marketing Group

Gerald Weber Search Engine Marketing Group — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:40:24 +0000

Excellent in depth explanation of page rank. It’s worth noting that page rank does become increasingly more important as the competitiveness of your niche increases. In other words if you are in a less competitive niche sometimes on page optimization is enough but for more competitive intdustry page rank becomes more important.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:46:39 +0000

“If you are considering linking to a page with a blank (or grey) PageRank, you may be linking to a page which has been blacklisted by Google. You are at considerable risk in doing such a thing.”

Does this also include allowing Tracbacks for other sites? Possibly ones that have been black listed? It is not always easy to know whether it is ok to allow a trackback to be displayed if this is the case.

By: Theo Baskind

Theo Baskind — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:44:51 +0000

Nice post bro!!!

I have both models online, word of mouth and search engine traffic and to be honest with you I make more money via word of mouth than I do search engine traffic lately…

The golden rule is get 40 quality people talking about your site/service/product and you’re set!!!