PageRank Update – My Photo Blog gets a 4 PR
This week many blog owners have discovered they’ve lost precious PageRank for their blogs. For years now some industry commentators have been suggesting that PageRank is ‘dead’. I don’t go along with that at all, but I suspect that PageRank has evolved and been tweaked beyond what we can measure.
However, I’m pretty happy that my photo blog has a PR of 4, and it’s only been live since September. That’s the power of linking within a network like the Daily Photo Blog, and of course, getting some good inbound links from other decent sites.
The WebMatters corporate site on the other hand, has lost PageRank, so now has less PageRank than my hobby site (the photo blog). I’ve not been actively building links to Web Matters, and because I don’t do much web design I don’t have other sites that I can automatically link to. Does it frustrate me? Yes it does, but I’m trying not to focus on it too much – after all PageRank is only updated every few months, so obsessing over it is pointless – better to get on with the job constant improvements to the site.
