I noticed that I have some pages such as my contact us page on my website that have a PR of 4 ( which I don't consider important ) and some subpages that are important which have a PR of 0 or N/A ...
what is it due too ?
tedster
5:47 pm on Mar 31, 2011 (gmt 0)
Observations like that make many SEOs say not to bother with toolbar PR. Trying to explain those anomalies is futile, IMO. Even if you did find the real explanation somehow, you still wouldn't know anything very actionable - or that impacts rankings.
My gmail inbox has PR-8, by the way.
deadsea
7:06 pm on Mar 31, 2011 (gmt 0)
Thats why I found your email in my SERPs the other day, tedster. ;-)
Planet13
9:52 pm on Mar 31, 2011 (gmt 0)
Observations like that make many SEOs say not to bother with toolbar PR.
Out of curiosity, would a certain third party toolbar that measures rank have any value? I am referring specifically to a pretty well-known tool bar by an SEO company based out of Seattle, Washington, here in The States?
Or would you not base any value to a page based on that particular toolbar's rank?
tedster
9:59 pm on Mar 31, 2011 (gmt 0)
You are talking about MozRank, I assume. There is also the third party metric ACRank from MajesticSEO. Sure, these metrics have some value for picturing how link equity is distributed throughout a site. And so does Toolbar PageRank, as far as that goes.
The third party tools do not play games like hiding their metric for some URLs, and that can also be a help for some analyisis. But they are both hampered by not knowing the details of how Google assigns and flows PageRank today - the "reasonable surfer" idea, for instance.
