PageRank Updates Continued

January 27, 2007

I thought I had missed out on the quarterly PageRank update, with most updates occurring two or three weeks ago.

SearchEngineLand, a site a little younger than mine, with massive PageRank potential also appeared to miss out. A few days ago I noticed SearchEngineLand was up to the might of PR 7 from PR 0 – which is pretty much unheard of from a site which is purely a news resource. So I swiftly checked my site which previously had a PR of 0 and joy joy, it had gone zero to hero… Well from PR 0 to PR 4 to be more accurate – but I’d be happy if that sticks!

PageRank can be good in giving a quick snapshot of how much authority a site has, but this by itself is not highly accurate and in many cases misleading.

Aaron Wall over at SEOBook believes that the cache date of a page is a far better measure of authority.

What Google frequently visits (and spends significant resources to keep updated) is what they consider important.

Aaron’s take on PageRank and cache date.

He also shares a cool tool to check the cache date of any given page, courtesy of Jim Boykin of WeBuildPages.

You can check your PageRank over various Google Data Centres with this neat tool.

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Posted by Joe Williams | Filed Under seo 

Comments

2 Responses to “PageRank Updates Continued”

  1. Eric Lander’s Blog » Google PageRank Updates Continue on January 28th, 2007 8:31 pm

    [...] PageRank Updates Continued [...]

  2. Jeff Lawrence on February 13th, 2007 1:22 am

    Going from PR0 to PR7 would be unheard of. After the PR update Danny and the rest were upset that they were unable to rank for even their own articles. He concluded it was about trust, and did a few things to rectify that.

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