Does Google PR matter?
Blogger Kai Lo left me a comment on my last post "New advertising policy". According to him I am impatient and he pointed out that my blog has a Google PR 0. It's quite funny because his own blog has a PR0 as well and he actually wrote a post about it saying "not to put too much emphasis on pageranks".
Anyway, I decided to write a blog post as a reply to his comments.
Well Kai, I have been blogging since September 2003 and started this blog in 2006. Since then, the Google PR of this blog has seen it's fair bit of highs and lows and the highest it ever went was a PR3. Read "Google PR updates and my blogs".
I got Google slapped in early 2008 when my PR dropped to 0 and has remained there ever since.
As to the question whether Google PR matters, I have to say "Yes!".
Traffic from Google is now lower and I have had to find other ways to increase traffic to my blog. A few potential advertisers pulled out when they realised that the PR of my blog is 0. Just shows how much importance that people pay to it. I haven't carried a sponsored post for ages but I still do carry affiliate links as well as Google adsense.
It might come as a surprise to many people that among all my blogs, this has the highest traffic per month. It also has the lowest Alexa rank (248,431 as of today - the lower the better) .
All of my posts are indexed almost immediately (advantage of hosting with Blogger) and my blog also ranks high for a number of key words. For example, try 'seo expert coventry' in Google search.
So Kai, as you can see, I am actually quite patient but you are right about one thing though - many advertisers do look at the PR of a blog.
Anyway, I decided to write a blog post as a reply to his comments.
Well Kai, I have been blogging since September 2003 and started this blog in 2006. Since then, the Google PR of this blog has seen it's fair bit of highs and lows and the highest it ever went was a PR3. Read "Google PR updates and my blogs".
I got Google slapped in early 2008 when my PR dropped to 0 and has remained there ever since.
As to the question whether Google PR matters, I have to say "Yes!".
Traffic from Google is now lower and I have had to find other ways to increase traffic to my blog. A few potential advertisers pulled out when they realised that the PR of my blog is 0. Just shows how much importance that people pay to it. I haven't carried a sponsored post for ages but I still do carry affiliate links as well as Google adsense.
It might come as a surprise to many people that among all my blogs, this has the highest traffic per month. It also has the lowest Alexa rank (248,431 as of today - the lower the better) .
All of my posts are indexed almost immediately (advantage of hosting with Blogger) and my blog also ranks high for a number of key words. For example, try 'seo expert coventry' in Google search.
So Kai, as you can see, I am actually quite patient but you are right about one thing though - many advertisers do look at the PR of a blog.
Comments
I truly enjoy reading your blog. I have written an eBook on Internet Marketing. I was wondering if you would be kind enough to take a look at my Interner Marketing eBook and let me know your thoughts.
Much appreciated,
Ashkan Sobhe
www.itchair.com
Hi Ashkan, I would be more than happy to look at your ebook if you email me a copy.
will drop by your site often.. Do find time to visit my blog and post your comments..
Have a great day.. Cheers!!!
It seems you have been blogging for quite a time. And i feel that i could learn a lot more things by visiting your blog more often. And Mr. Kai I think Mr. Adams knows much more then us. So we must not make any comments which will mean to attack him. Thanks guys.
yes, PR is important, if u want to make money with it
but the best of them should be used and it is better to get quality links than quantity of links..
Nice post anyways
Now after 3 months from 31st Dec 08, Google finally update my site’s PR as on 2nd April 09.
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http://www.seowonders.com