[taking a break from wedding festivities to post a thought or three ... ;) ]

Just over a month ago, I switched my domains again. I was previous at tony.thehungs.org, but at the time I thought — what the hell … and just ordered up the current domain (its design auto-evolving over time) which represents the name of the blog.

Not that anyone out there else keeps track of things, but I’m always interested and curious when I see other blogs which are posting nearly every day for a certain amount of time who certainly have fans and inbound links also have a page rank of zero.

For the uninitiated, pagerank is a way of Google to rank pages within your site, ascribing them a numerical value as a surrogate for worth. This is determined by a pagerank algorithm, but it is based on the number and quality of inbound links that point to a given page on your site; higher quality links are those that come from higher pagerank pages, and I think its also said that links which come from a main page of a site, are also worth more; also, links coming from a page that already has lots of links (such as a link farm) are not worth as much.

The pagerank system, I have found out, is constantly being updated from an index point of view.
That is, Google is always updating itself with its own little bots so that you turn up in relevant places in search results.

However, the results of all of this are only “exported” infrquently — to the tune of once every three months or so.

The last update happened in the middle of July, so who knows how long the next export will take. Apparently, the longest it took to export their findings so that everyone could so “official results” , was almost 4 months!

Since my old site had a PR of 2 with absolutely no promotion whatsoever (maybe even “negative” promotion as I did try and hide it from Search engines), I am interested to see how things are over here now.

When Google ever decides to do another export of course. ;)

1. Resources:
   http://www.google.com/technology/ — from the proverbial horse’s mouth.
2. http://www.seocompany.ca/pagerank/page-rank-update-list.html — a listing of every recent pagerank update in recent memory; give you a sense of perspective when they happen (and how long they’ve happened)
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank — gives a nice mathematical explanation for pagerank (if that’s your thing).
4. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/?p=1913 — a bit dated, but a nice description of how people try and guess (and out guess) what the google algorithms are thinking of when pageranks happen.
5. http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/15/google-page-rank-update/#comments — check out the comments field here; when pageranks are updated sometimes peoples pages and sites move up and down. A snapshot of a community’s reaction.

[as an aside: my Technorati Profile]