Forum Moderators: martinibuster
Example: your site is about widgets, a link from "Bob's shoeshine parlor and bait shop" will gain you nothing because it's off topic...likewise your outbound link to "Bob" will also be off topic and do no good...except for giving them an additional inbound link...thats all...
Don't waste your time if it's off target...put your effort into your own page content...making your site stand on it's own...I have very few inbounds however I rank #1 for my chosen keyword(s) and have for over a year....content is king!...
The PR you are seeing is about 7'ish months old...and may not be the current ranking of those pages...just think about it...if the site that is linking to you is nothing more than a link farm...again...you're wasting your time...
There's some truth to that, but not totally. It's not up to date, maybe three months, or maybe one month. It's not 100%
In either case, gtbpr is only a partial indicator of the real PR.
Maybe. I don't know what you know.
There is a publicly viewable PR and there is an internally knowable (at Google) PR. It has also been stated by Google engineers that there are many variables at play and that the toolbar green is not an accurate measurement:
This bit about the toolbar is from an interview with a Google Search engineer [e-marketing-news.co.uk] last December 2003:
...it's not very precise. We have a lot more precision available to us than we represent in a ten step scale or whatever it is on the PageRank tool... And we're not naive enough to think that we can condense every indicator about a page into a number from one to ten. We certainly can't do that.
Although the toolbar has recently been updated on a quarterly basis, it's not known whether this is a recent snapshot, an aggregate snapshot over the last three months, a snapshot from somewhere in between, or from a point three months ago. But it may be reasonable to assume that it's a fairly recent snapshot judging from what people have noted here at WebmasterWorld. But that's not 100%.
Should website rank be considered? Hmm. One thing you really should be paying attention to if you are exchanging links is how relevant that page is to you. That's just my opinion, so feel free to disagree.
The Google engineer is right that multiple factors figure into the evaluation of a page.
But at the end, G has to make a simple one-dimensional determination:
Does some page pppp rank above or below page qqqq?
They can't display them on top of one another.
There must be some single number, possibly decimal, that determines the order pages are
displayed in for given keyword(s).
I wish I could Google up my real number from time to time. - Larry
