How’s Your PageRank? Mine’s Still an 8

There’s a bit of a dust up over on Techmeme about Google reducing the PageRank of some popular sites (like Engadget and TUWA). I don’t even pretend to understand the black voodo magic that is search engine optimization, but I do know that I show up high on quite a few (often random) Google searches and I think that’s due in large part to my PageRank, which is an 8. (You can check yours here)

Supposedly this new downgrade is due to paid links, something most people in the Adobe community won’t have to worry about. But since this is coming up, I wanted to see what some of you guys’ PageRanks are. I’ve always thought that having MXNA (which is a PageRank of 10) constantly linking to us made a difference. But MXNA actually hides the link behind identifiers so I’m not sure that makes any difference at all. In that case maybe it’s just weblogs.macromedia.com or blogs.adobe.com (both PageRank 10) that make a difference. So those of you blogging about Adobe stuff, what’s your page rank?

[tags]Blogging, PageRank[/tags]

  • http://blog.danmcweeney.com dan mcweeney

    Wow, funny my little blog has the same pagerank as Engadget. Something about that doesn’t seem right.

  • http://www.jonnymac.com/blog Jon MacDonald

    I’d have to agree that MXNA/AXNA doesn’t directly enhance one’s page rank, but the fact that it increases others awareness about your blog which leads to links to your posts certainly helps your page rank.

    What is odd is that mine has jumped around from an 8 to a 6 and back several times. Guess it all depends of which server hits your site last and thus which algorithm is uses.

  • http://mndoci.com Deepak

    Mine has been steady at 5 for a year or so and is still there.

  • http://www.peterelst.com Peter Elst

    I’ve been at PR 6 for the last year and a half or so.

  • http://www.colettas.org David Coletta

    Mine is still an 8 as well, has been for at least a few months.

  • http://www.brockett.net Kurt Brockett

    Watch out world…I’m cranking in at a big 3. :) . Probably because I only focus on that boring WPF/Silverlight stuff..hehe.

  • http://polyGeek.com polyGeek

    Bummer, I went from 7, which I thought was a little over the top, to a 4. I do have some text-link adds on my site. Maybe that’s the cause. At anyrate, I’ll take the $$$ over the pagerank any day.

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  • http://www.zeuslabs.us/ Josh Tynjala

    My PageRank is 7, and it hasn’t changed for quite a while. I remember reaching PR8 at one point, but I had to regain my authority after switching domains and it won’t budge any higher.

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  • http://www.numtopia.com/terry Terrence Ryan

    I’m at a 5.

  • http://www.jozzua.com jozzua

    I saw the phenomenon as it was coming. I was looking at the datacenters and saw the PR variances. Mine went down 2 PR points.

  • http://www.brandonellis.org/ Brandon Ellis

    I’m a 7.

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  • http://blog.franto.com Franto

    still PR6 for my site

  • http://fernandocomet.blogspot.com Comet

    I am agregated in MXNA and have a blogspot blog. Althouhg my blog is in spanish I have pageRank 5.
    Sometimes I had 7 or 8 but I think it´s due to GoogleDance.

  • http://www.chancermusic.com chancer

    I am not very interested in my PR but people seem to believe is a penalty for selling links. I think people at Google are having lots of fun these days reading all the discussions out there. I know I would.

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  • http://www.traum-pizza.de/ Maxime

    mine is still 0 :-) but the domain advanced for a major keyword within the last weeks.

    Everyone is talking about the pagerank update but in fact I can see just drops in pagerank. Seems that the ongoing update will take a long time and that google started with downgrading or removing sites. So if many sites (directories, link sellers and blog posts) have been removed from the google index. And removed sites doesn’t link anymore and thats why many sites could have lost PR. And why have so many sites removed from the index? I believe on behalf of double content.

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  • http://rasterweb.net/raster/ Pete Prodoehl

    Wow! Mine is way down… I am a firm believer that Google is lowering the page rank of any site with ads that are *not* Google Ads, which makes sense, but also sorta makes Google evil. (I’m seeing this across a bunch of sites I manage, some of which have ads, some do not, those without have not changed, those with have all went down.)

  • http://www.VerticalMeasures.com Arnie

    Only a PR4 but happy to have it hold up. Personally I believe all links are paid for one way or another. But I can see now where traditional paid links are going underground.

  • Matt

    Mine managed to jump to 5 within two weeks of my launching the site, and has sat there ever since. I did however notice that it’d been given a big bump in the search results back in September, leading to a doubling of referrals from Google. Wasn’t accompanied by any change in PageRank though.

  • http://www.searchenginecollege.com/blog.htm Kalena Jordan

    Hey Ryan, it figures that a mountain climber would be a PageRank 8! Nice work. Unlike you, my life is the “black voodoo magic” that is SEO. My blog’s about turning the SEO voodoo into basic English for everyone else. Keep climbing mountains AND Google :-)

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  • http://blog.guya.net guya

    My blog jumped from nothing to 7 a short time after I started it. It then downgraded to 6 after a few month without new posts, and stayed there ever since. I believe the big jump straight to a pagerank of 7 was mainly due to the MXNA and fullasagoog.com (it was 9, now it’s 5 :o )

    This article also gave me some ranking IMHO.
    It’s about Flash SEO, my blog had none when I’ve written it.
    http://blog.guya.net/2006/03/16/can-you-make-me-first-in-google/

  • http://www.100ct.de Marco

    I´m totally new on 4, but it´s ok for me…

  • http://www.hdrjapan.com John

    Ouch, so many sites and communities have been hit by this. I guess Google is serious…this has been the buzz of the internet today.

  • http://www.aroundgreece.com Alex

    Mine has moved up to PR5 from a PR4. Quite pleased with that really, and have also seen a jump from PR3 to PR4 for many of my internal pages as well.

  • http://gallery.k-netsystems.net Mak

    I’m new to pagerank, actually what it does? Is that important?

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  • matt

    Page rank has nothing to do with ranking or visitors. Here is an interesting post about Google PR. Take a look at that

    http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/11/paid-links-google-page-rank.html

  • http://myutil.com face

    I’m at 0…but then again my blog is new and I only have one article on flex (so far). Maybe after I get some more flex article written, my page rank will go up :-)

  • http://www.teethgrindingcure.com Mikel

    Mine is not assigned yet but I believe is a new site launched after the update. :D

  • http://www.teethgrindingcure.com Mikel

    Mine is not assigned yet but I believe is because is just a new site launched after the update. :D

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  • http://www.googma.blogspot.com/ Googma Sansar

    Mines still 3. and what about you friends?