The PageRank experiment first results

Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 11:16 AM
Website Design by John (Article #260)

The PageRank experiment I had mentioned in December has already yielded some interesting results.

Let me just say I don't understand the first result at all.

There were three sites used. The first site was a revived site that had previously been deleted. It has a few inboud links from a PR3 website. The second site is a continuously registered domain with links from many PR2 and PR3 sites. The third has a single link from a PR5 website.

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Google began updating PageRanks right after the New Year. Apparently the first wave of updates pertains to new websites, because those are the ones that seem to be popping up with new PRs all over the place.

The third site, with the single inbound PR5, has a PR0. It turns out, I forgot to move this site over to a new server when I canceled the one it was on. Oops. But easy to understand.

The second site went from PR0 to PR2. Roughly what I expected. I thought it was on the border of PR2 and PR3 and it fell a bit short. Again, very understandable.

The first site is the one that perplexes me. It has several inbound links, but only from a single PR3 website. It went from no PR to PR3. The inbound link site links to five other websites. My understanding of PR indicates this should have resulted in a PR2 website. And this makes me wonder if the inbound link site has some special juice as a trusted website. Hmm.

PageRank followers believe that Google will begin updating more often in 2010. In previous years, Google updated PRs four times a year, on a very rough schedule of every three months. The current prevailing view is that Google is now updating every two months.

So, the experiment continues.

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