The dust has settled somewhat and bloggers are getting back to their daily business having accepted the aftermath of the calamity. Those who has suffered would probably have gotten over with their grieve and sorrow and those who had jumped with joy can now sit back and enjoy the new found “fame”. Fame? Nah. Ego will be a better word. False ego at that.
There have been many sneers around the Blogosphere by bloggers, especially the first timers who got their first rank, at those old timers who lost theirs, saying, “what is so great about your blog? I can simply write some nonsense and I am ranked higher than you!” These are the naive bloggers who don’t have a single hint about the significance of the Page Rank.
To these bloggers, the Page Rank is just a sign of prestige. To them it is like a scout’s badge pinned on their shoulders for doing a good deed. To them, it is just an adornment, to be shown off. They are simply ignorant about the value of what they have and why they are jumping with joy when they got it. Maybe they should sit back, look at the little green bar, and think. Why am I so happy with that? Why should I be happy with that?
I doubt they can answer their own question. All they might think of is “I got a Pr4, John Chow also got demoted to PR4, so I my blog is on par with John Chow dot com. Don’t look down on me” And they laugh and float to seventh heaven on that thought. Meanwhile, John Chow is busy moderating than 80 odd comments that he receives daily for each of his post while our newly promoted blogger who “is on par” can only look at the big fat “0 comments” under all his articles.
Ed,
When it comes to this, I am as blur as you. During the last update some months ago, a 2 month old blog of mine jumped from 0 to 5. Then it went from 5 to 1 during the recent fiasco. Within then and now, I made quite a lot of money from that blog.
The most accurate readings that most pros turn to in confirming their ranks is digpagerank.com maybe you can check your rankings there, but if that green bar shows a 4, you can be pretty sure, you have a 4. Maybe Google likes you!
so like I say, sit back, enjoy and start thinking what you can do with that rank. The day this blog got a 3, i took some action that the 3 don’t go to waste and become just an adornment. It will be making me my first 100 bucks today.
Ed,
After reading your last post where you said “ignorant is bliss” I will refrain from spoiling you with the things that I am going to do here.
Anyway it is no big secret, but if you value PR more than the greenback, then it better you don’t find out anything.
Me? I got a money face. I can’t be bothered if they take away this present PR as long as “those people” want to pay me. LOL.
RiceBlogger,
Correct. If I had 20,000 readers daily, they can take back all the PR they want.
You know, I have a feeling one day, advertisers will be looking at the feedcount numbers and not the PR.
Not one day, PPP is already implementing their Argus. They would rely less on page rank. Page rank will only be relevant to advertisers who are looking for link juice and SEO.
Word of mouth advertisers will want to look at real traffic.
If not monetized, Google Page Rank is really nothing for me. As you have said through your John Chow example, PR is no longer a good measurement tool for a quality of blog.
Although it still can manage to touch the heart of some advertisers, there will be no more relevance between the site PR and the site true quality.