PageRank 3
A couple weeks ago I made a post on the predicted PageRank of ChrisBlogging. At the time, I used several tools to predict this number, and most of them were showing that I would obtain a PageRank of 4. While these tools were close, they were not accurate. This past Saturday I learned that I obtained a PageRank of 3. Am I disappointed with this? Absolutely not!
For a blog that is only five months old, I am quite happy with a PageRank of 3. In fact, this is even with many of the “big name” bloggers who are earning hundreds of dollars per month with their blog. And with that being said, some of the best pro bloggers out there only have a PageRank of 4.
As you have probably read, Google decreased the PageRank of many well known blogs. Some have speculated that the reason for this is selling links, whereas others feel that this has nothing to do with it. Your guess is as good as mine when it comes to this. As I mentioned before, I do not put much time or effort into thinking about my PageRank. It is nice that it increased and I am now on par with some bigger blogs, but even then, I am not sure that it will do much for me.
Now that ChrisBlogging has a PageRank of 3 instead of 0, I should be able to ask more of advertisers when I begin to offer advertising space upon releasing my new design. Also, some readers have emailed me and mentioned that search engine traffic is sure to increase with a higher PageRank. Hopefully, they are right to a certain degree.
So, how were your blogs affected by the latest PageRank update? Did you see an increase, or did Google slap you on the wrist?
October 30th, 2007 at 12:13 am
my personal blog stayed at a 4, but believe it or not a 2 month old project is now a pagerank 5!
October 30th, 2007 at 4:32 am
my chinese blog gets PR4 and english blog is PR1. my friend’s 1 month old blog is now PR 3.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:10 am
Congrats my friend! One of my new websites went from 0 to 4. And another website where I sold links went from 4 to 3.
PR 3 for a new blog is really good! I’m happy for you.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I just made a quick post (http://www.iamjacksdesign.com/blog/the-final-pagerank-results/) about my results on my blog. A few of my sites with pre-existing PageRank took negative hits but, for the most part, things went pretty well for me.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Congrats Chris and I am very happy with the updates!! We are looking forward to the new design
October 30th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Congrats, Chris. To be honest, I have no idea how to check my PageRank, though I admitted in a previous comment that I had no idea what PageRank was before now, anyway. Is there an official Google site to use in checking? My blog is only a month old, so I doubt I have much, if any, to start with!
October 30th, 2007 at 10:28 am
My new blog went from 0 to 3 - it’s about the same age as this blog, so I am very happy.
October 30th, 2007 at 11:55 am
My basketball blog, which I started on the first day of September, has a PR4!!! I’m so stoked about that - I’ve put a lot of work into it and it really seems to be paying off. (same “chad” as posts from thewritechoice.ca).
October 30th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I hope the next pr is like in December =). Have you seen an increase in traffic Chris?
October 30th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
I have a friend who got his page rank down minus 1 point, and now he is getting 4 times more traffic from google.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:03 am
Good stuff on the PR 3. Glad you made it.. my other site cash for comments did the same. But you truly are a resource for freelance writers.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:04 am
Would you like to have a few words in the Movie Chris?? let me know..
October 31st, 2007 at 11:29 am
Thanks for all the replies! To me, it seems like Google used a scatter gun approach this time around. Some new blogs made huge jumps, but at the same time, established blogs with great content took a hit?
Blogging the Movie - Send me an email about your movie! Id love to learn more…