Blog Rings and PageRank

Do blog rings boost your blog's PR?

[Small Website Guy]

I've noticed this phenomenon called blog rings, where people pust a link to the blog ring on their main blog page.

The blog ring directories seem to often have PR4.

I also see a lot of blogs with PR4. Some have PR5 or even PR6

Are the blogs getting their high PR from being associated with the blog rings?

Will Google treat blog rings like guest books? (Allegedly Google no longer counts guest books for PR purposes).

How do blogs manage to get such high PR numbers?

If this keeps up, when you do a search in Google all you will get are blogs. (But this would probably be more interesting than just getting links to product catalogs and affiliate sites which is what I get now.)

[Sharper]

More likely, since Blogs have a tendancy to link to many other blogs on the each topic using trackback features and within the text, that would account more for it. I would suspect that the affect of a "blog ring" would be minimal, especially since some of them are implemented using javascript that Google wouldn't follow anyway.

[Small Website Guy]

Each blog ring at Ringsurf has a directory, and each listing in the directory is a real link, not a javascript or redirect link, and the directory pages tend to have a PR of 4, and each page links to 25 blogs.

Unless Google has some kind of anti-blogging alorithm, I would think this would be as good as any other PR4 link?

[Small Website Guy]

Upon further examination of high PR blogs, I would say that like Sharper says, the majority of the PR comes from links to and from other blogs. The blog rings are only a small part of the picture.

It's still pretty impressive how blogs achieve such high PR.

[caustic]

and each page links to 25 blogs

the PR attribution is divided up by ALL links on the page not just outbounds, so lets call that 35 total; PR 4 divided by 35 is not a lot.

[benc007]

What exactly is a "Blog" / "Blog Ring"?

I noticed the new Google toolbar has a Blog button, but I'm not sure how this works.

[richardb]

I noticed the new Google toolbar has a Blog button, but I'm not sure how this works.

It does? Oh no then blogs are here to stay.

A lot of the techy bloggs have PR6 & 7... Like non techy bloggs there's very few that you want to spend time reading ;)

[abates]

benc007, the "blog this" button is so people who use blogger can make an entry about the page they're currently looking at. Alas, not much use if you use other blogging services. :(

[Small Website Guy]

Blogger is a company recently purchased by Google. Googles first move was to reprice the product from $35 to free.

I guess they will make it up in volume :)

A lot of blogs achieve impressive PR, often a 6. Maybe it's just that those are the easy blogs to find, the blogs with PR0 are hidden and hard to find.

Blogs seem to have such high PR because they have multiple pages of archives, and every page has links pointing out to other blogs.

Blogger A puts a link to Blooger B on his link bar. Blogger A has 20 archived pages, so effectively he created 20 links to Blogger B.

When you do searches on Google you get a lot of blog results.

[benc007]

abates,

you said "the blog this"button is so people who use blogger can make an entry about the page they're currently looking at. Alas, not much use if you use other blogging services. :( "

Why would someone what to "blog" a page? What does this do exactly?

Has anyone tried setting up a domain with only links from Blogs with high PR?

[abates]

benc007, people often use blogs as diaries of interesting links they find online. They post the link to the site along with a paragraph or two in their blog, so that the readers of their blog know about the site.

for example:
"http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/coolscript.cgi

Here's a cool page - it lets you organise your taxes, play drafts, and access the Pentagon's secret files. If you get to the bonus levels, it will let you order a nuclear strike on the country of your choice."

"Blog This" simply starts a new blog post and presumibly pastes in the URL.