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How do you know you got a Google page rank update
Posted On: July 27, 2008Posted In: IMwithJoe.com, Traffic and SEO, Video Blogging
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How do you know Google updated your page rank?
Well, it’s not that hard if you have the google toolbar plugged in. However, if you don’t there are some other tools you can use for it as well. Here is a list of some of the places to check your page rank.
PageRank Script from TareeInternet
What is page rank and why do you care?
PageRank is just what it sounds like. Google places a rank on all web pages with a value between 0 and 10, 10 being the highest. Theoretically, the higher the page rank, the more of an authority your website is, or the more popular it is. Many theories go into how Google determines this, but from what I can tell, these are some of the areas they look at:
- Backlinks, the number of links pointing to your site from other sites
- The quality of the backlinks, meaning, how important the site linking to your site is
- Where you link to, you know, what the links on your site point too
- Content, I dunno, this just seems to be a factor as well
- Traffic, again,more traffic means more popularity
It’s basically a metric of reader interaction with your site, in the form of traffic, links and how many people find your site to be useful. The more links, and the more that popular sites link to you, or the more people that link to you, the higher you will get.
But, really, this is just my opinion, and no one really knows how they calculate it.  We just guess and try to play accordingly.
Some people upset with the recent Google page rank updates
Yeah, some people lost page rank all together, some went down, others stayed the same, and some didn’t get what they thought they would. There are always going to be some upset folks when the Big G comes through and slaps a sticker on your site.
It’s like the kid in elementary school who’s mom brings in McDonald’s and eats it in the cafeteria with him in front of all the other students that are stuck eating that school lunch. Now, the school lunch isn’t bad ( in some cases) but, you know kids love McDonald’s so now everything seems to be crap!
What Normal Joe thinks about the update
Regardless, it’s cool, I got some PR lovin now, and it’s just a fun process to be involved in. I’ll leave you with my thoughts in this short video….told you i’d be using the camera more 
July 27th, 2008 at 1:25 am
LOL Great video man!
Congrats on the cert from Google for the PR lol. I seemed to have stayed at 1 myself this time around.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Thanks Keith…I am proud of my cert man! Keep pushing and keep growing, you’ll get it up there next round…I’m sure….
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Garry Conn (39 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I think things will be much better for you on the next update. If not, then I will personally go down and remove all the massage chairs and luxury items that the Google employees have at the Google Complex. LOL!!!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Yeah I hope so….maybe they can send me one of those exercise balls they sit on, or give me a free lunch at one of their many campus cafes….
I think I’ll be fine, learning from folks like you….I should be good.
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Garry Conn (39 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
What’s up with all these blogs that have killer info that only have PR1? Did you guys like plan some kind of terrorist attack against Google or something? Sheesh…..
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I tell ya man….somebody needs to let us know! Oh well, at least we didn’t lose it, or stay at 0.
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July 27th, 2008 at 1:28 am
“GREAT POST” LOL…LMAO!
@ Joe: I love the comedic value of that video… LOL… you should label it “Why Page Rank Sucks” LOL. The smiley face looks a bit spastic though…
I REALLY have got to give you props on the camera… I’ve tried video, but I’m too fricken picky and I think I look and sound to much like a doofus. I burned through a handful of DVD’s trying… maybe one day!
seriously great post though, great video! Here’s a stumble for you sir!
Oh… and I’m giving your keyword plugin a try too… lets play how long will it take the web developer to figure it out!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Hahahaha, thanks dude! Man, it was fun……I just had to do it man. I told you guys i’d be using that camera more!
It was the perfect opportunity, and also to help some people laugh at themselves and not get so bent out of shape.
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Garry Conn (39 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
I used to publish YouTube videos… they totally blog and I am always conscious of how they look or how I sound. Needless to say, I don’t do that many anymore. Everyone once in awhile I will but they don’t reflect myself in a natural state. LOL!!!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
You should bring them back man…the people want to hear from you!
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July 27th, 2008 at 11:08 am
HAhahahaha joe I got spanked, got whacked from 4 to 2 who knows. I suppose as I have read the whole do follow thingy is PR suicide, maybe being a link hog is a good thing.
Hey let me know if ever want to start a child link selling slavery thing, I think theres something to that.
Like a frikken lemonade stand !!!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Thanks man….lol,
I don’t know about the dofollow thing, but, I think it’s good to reward the readers of a blog. I’ve toyed with the idea of taking dofollow off of the comments and increasing the top commentator slots…but, I think I like doing that, having the link love.
I just installed keyword love so if you put shane@makemoneyblogging it will only link the keywords after the @ to your site, so it builds anchor links with good anchor text
Ahh well, I’ll just keep chugging along.
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Garry Conn (39 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
From what I head, dofollow’ing comments drains your link juice, whatever that means…. It isn’t necessarily bad to dofollow your comments as long as the links to point to somewhere bad. So I guess in theory, if you dofollow your comments and let a comment post where the comment author links to his blog and does shady things on it, you can feel some effects from that. I guess… again, don’t work at Google, but that is how I think about and that is why I don’t dofollow links on my comments.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Hmmmmm, now that you say that. It makes sense. Especially the part about what they do on their blogs. I think the majority of my readers that comment are on the level…….
Something to consider, however I know so many High PR blogs that are dofollow, so, the rhyme and reasons still seams elusive! We both know the answer to the secret…now we just need the venue lol
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July 27th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Great vid Joe, cracked me up
My main sites are sitting at 0 but its ok… i’ll keep at it.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Thanks for stopping by buddy. Yeah, I don’t know what the deal is, but, I’ll just keep moving forward. You guys should start using the keywordluv plugin, it shows you how to use it below the comment form
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July 27th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Cheers
I may give the this plugin a try… I have seen in on Vegan Momma’s blog before.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Yeah, it’s nice. Cuts down on names like ” Get your next Lasik eye surgery for 50% off” lol…
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July 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
LOL!!!!!! Hey man, awesome video! Don’t let google spank you on da booty! lol…
I actually got my first PR as well but it wasn’t on the site I was expecting to get it on as it gets less traffic and has less links than my other site, but it is older… eh, whatever, ya know…
I’m just happy I got a PR now, but I’m still waiting for that SWEET certificate to come in the mail!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Hahaha, thanks dude. I’m glad you got that PR too, it was a surprise you beat me out! But it’s cool dude, you got that gamer thing going, keep pushing it!
Glad you liked the video man!
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July 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Oh how I just love the blogosphere PageRank drama… it really gives a good burst of material to read every three months or so…
Joe… your blog is great and your content is awesome and you’re a pretty cool normal joe… I am more happy to see you growing your RSS subscriptions and being active with all your friends on their blogs and in their social networks such as facebook and youtube. I never knew that you have youtube videos up and I am checking them out now… also never knew that you had a facebook account which that is awesome and glad that we have added each other.
In three months your site will be PR4 or PR5… Just remember, there is ONE way that you can get the secret of PageRank. There is one way that you can unlock the Google Code…
Solution: Get Matt Cutts drunk off his a$$ and he’ll spill the beans. Just make sure you have a flip cam or something to record it.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
yeah…it’s fun man, figured I’d put the Normal Joe twist on it…
Thanks for the compliment on the blog, I just try to do things my own little way, and not copy everyone else. Hopefully more will catch on. My daily readers and RSS keeps growing so that’s good with me.
I remember you told me how to get the secret! I’ll be sure to bring my flip if I’m ever around Matt Cutts!
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Garry Conn@make money online (5 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
… and I’ll be sure to bring the horse tranquilizers and booze. LOL!!!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Let’s do it!
Then we can create a membership site and sell the secret to 10 people per year…we’ll charge 10,000/head!
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July 27th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
PageRank Sucks but despite what everyone says we want a pagerank, Google knows it and that’s why it sucks. Good post man.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Yeah man, we all want it, unless you’re John Chow….then it doesn’t really matter. Thanks for stopping by.
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Garry Conn@make money online (5 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Having PageRank does help you rank better for more premium and primary keywords in Google. However, really I don’t focus to much on that. Typically with my blogs the post title is the primary keyword phrase that I am targeting. So when doing that, most of the cases all is fine regardless if you are a PR0 or a PR10.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
That makes sense…I just hope my hard work pays off next update! lol, I’ll just keep learning from the masters like the Conn man.
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July 27th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Awesome vid buddy, lol. Yeah, great camera stuff. I’m not exactly mister personna with all that stuff. It’s good to see a guy that’s fairly comfortable with all that. Talk soon Joe
Davin
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Thanks mate, really appreciate it. Yeah man, this stuff is fun for me, and I usually don’t have problems with being shy or anything so…I’m glad I won the camera.
I just plan to have fun with it, this vid was made to let some of us laugh at ourselves for how crazy we get behind the Googmonster’s system.
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Garry Conn (39 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
I don’t quite get that but lets try it:
garryconn@make money online
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Garry Conn@make money online (5 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
lets try that one more time.
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Garry Conn@make money online (5 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Very cool, I see how that works now… that is neat. Where do you download that plugin?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Hahahahaha
You are hilarious! here’s the link
http://www.scratch99.com/wordpress-plugin-keywordluv/
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July 27th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
I really loved that video
It was entertaining and still informative and put the whole PR thing into perspective – great stuff!
Love the certificate too, even the smiley….
Yes, a lot of PR is just guessework isn’t it? And some get their butt’s slapped without even knowing why. (Love the anaology of Google treating us all like babies by the way – how true!).
And as you said, whether we admit it or not, we all want page rank (for one reason or another…) except for John Chow. But as you said, it doesn’t matter much to him, does it…?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Hey Zania, I’m glad you liked it! I agree, we all want it, most of us need it, but we don’t understand it! It’s a weird relationship really, but, we must do what we need to get the rank we desire.
I have another quarter of hard work ahead of me, and we’ll see what I come out with next time. I’m hoping they send me a new certificate with more rank.
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July 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I only noticed about the latest Google’s Page Rank change from reading about it from others. My site’s home page sits on PR4 for a year, I only notice mild changes pages deeper within, I sure watch it it’s like playing a chess game sometimes heaps of variations you want to think of. The blog is new and recent change gave nice PR’s to most posts but none to its blog-home page, must check robots.txt if it’s not disabled but it shouldn’t. What I have noticed just now, my blog is DoFollow (nofollow free) and the PR addition took place at the posts with comments, which is s good sign for the matter! But even more puzzling now. I wish the PR Mystery wasn’t mystery any more, someone could explain it, what everything is reflected by PR?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 27th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
You know…I don’t really know what all is included in PR calculations. I hear links back to your page, maybe traffic, content…who knows…
Maybe Google has a big lotter wheel and they just randomly pick PR for sites! All we can do is continue to grow our sites in an organic way and hope we are rewarded with PR.
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July 28th, 2008 at 5:58 am
I love the vid! It really is an accurate representation of what happens every pr update. I absolutely believe that imwithjoe will hit a pr3/4 next time no problem. Keep the killer content coming!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 28th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Thanks buddy! It really means a lot. Many people think I’ll be up there next time, I don’t know…I’m just gonna keep pushing and see what happens.
Glad you liked the vid!
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July 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am
my precious PR of 3 sanked to 0..haha
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Wow…any idea how that happened?
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July 28th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Me too who knows how the Page Rank is calculated exactly but there are more insights I got in last 24 hours. Yan produced this great article on the subject with a table explaining a lot How Did Google Calculate Your PR? Thanks for the reply to my coment.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
No prob, I’ll check out Yan’s post, he has a great blog.
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July 28th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Okay… I totally missed this. This is the funnies video ever, haha. You just earned yourself one dedicated reader
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 29th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Lol, thanks Jim…means a lot coming from you! Glad you enjoyed it!
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July 29th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Hahahaha That is priceless Joe. I heard you mention your offical google certificate on your most recent video (loving the vids btw) and was thinkgin WTF! You are too funny!
I’d like you to re-do that video with a keyword count on the word pagerank!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Ha! Thanks man….I’m just trying let you guys get to know me a lil bit more. I really enjoy the video man, it ads that personal touch, as, I just get to be myself on camera!
As for the keyword count…if only they could develop some audio technology to crawl the vids!
Glad you guys like it man…
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August 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
LOL.
My blog was given a PR2 just because the spiders liked the size of my head in proportion to my body.
The only tips I can offer on how I got that rank is:
– Don’t update frequently (10 days minimum)
– Do NOT add posts that are relevant to any partiular niche or each other.
– Don’t make the site too easy to navigate. I think people like the challenge and will keep coming back.
There’s more, but I don’t want to get into advanced stuff right now.
Who knows dude. You’re PR7 in my book!
Lovin’ the vids.
Cheers!
Jay
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August 6th, 2008 at 11:43 am
@Normal Joe – There is a ratio… big blogs and big number of backlinks pointing back to their blog which counter balance the effect.
…. I think…
Could be wrong.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
August 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
It’s all good man…I’m just gonna roll with it. I’m sure you have a little idea of how things work.
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August 12th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Man Joe, congrats on the Google cert….LOL!
As usual, you crack me up. As for the Page Rank, I am with you and have no clue how it works, but I AM ADDICTED TO IT!!!! LOL! Like most bloggers, I wish mine was higher, but hey what can you do?
KEEP BLOGGING!!! That is what you can do and that is what I plan on doing.
During this update, our site went from 2 to 3, so that is great. I think it had something to do with us switching from static pages to a blog format. We made the move about a month ago or so and I hear that Page Rank, well Google for that matter, prefers blogs over regular websites.
Nevertheless, the addition is great, but I would trade it all for more traffic and a solid communicating community. That is what we are all blogging for, to help others and have others help others, right?
Congrats again and as usual….
I’m with Joe!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
August 13th, 2008 at 7:20 am
Thanks man! I love that thing man!
We all are slaves to the page rank in some way or another, everyone will be checking it again in a few months! We’ll see what happens, will I get a new cert, or will they snatch the one I already have? Only time will tell
I do know the Goog loves blogs man, so congrats on the rise from 2 to 3, maybe I’ll be able to join you.
And you’re right, I love creating a community more than pursuing page rank,eventually if you keep building the community structure, the page rank will follow. I just don’t “chase it” so to speak.
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August 17th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
I’ve got blogs that range from 0 PR to 5 PR and I don’t know how much difference it makes to be honest – my PR 3 blog makes me the most money to be honest, although I probably could monetize my PR 5 blog better – I have noticed people willing to spend money for links on there for the Goolge Juice.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
August 18th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Yeah, I don’t know…as long as I get some good traffic and readers I’m happy. PR is good for advertising, but even if you don’t have great PR, if your traffic and site stats are decent, folks will still pay to advertise.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm
The video rocks , i like your creative approach to posts…keep it going
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:27 pm
@WebTrafficROI -
Thanks for the encouragement man, I just try to have fun and I’m glad people enjoy it
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August 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Great video man. I think the truth is PR is only a big deal if you are selling text links or adverts where PR is considered. It does make a difference for your ranking of keywords…or much that matters,
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
August 24th, 2008 at 10:46 am
@Simon@how to make quick money -
Yeah, and even then it may or may not help. It’s all about what the value is to the person that wants to advertise on your site. They may not care about the PR if they see the interaction or demographic your site attracts. I know awesome sites with low PR and some not so awesome with high PR. It’s all subjective really. But good PR can help more than it would hurt.
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September 5th, 2008 at 10:36 am
How important is page rank these days. I have scored some very tough keyword listings in the top ten but my pagerank has not went up on some of my sites. I am not really sure why, but as long as I am getting traffic I am find with it.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I dunno, but everyone was trippin! As long as I’m getting traffic that doesn’t matter to me. It helps for some people who are depending on advertising, but then still…if traffic is there does it really matter?
I don’t know if it has any effect on your serps or not lol, if not..then it’s just another bragging number
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September 7th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Thanks for the SEO tools.
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September 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Welcome paulette, glad you found them useful.
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September 14th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Funny video man, you got a unique style.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 14th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Thanks dude, glad you enjoyed it, look forward to seeing you around more
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September 14th, 2008 at 4:55 am
@ Normal Joe-this is very helpful for internet marketers.Hope you post more articles about seo and marketing:) Thanks again.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 14th, 2008 at 11:11 am
thanks paulette, I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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October 1st, 2008 at 4:32 am
Hey Joe,
New update on the page rank. Any chance of you breaking out your updated google certificate again?
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
October 1st, 2008 at 6:19 pm
It may come through lol….. you never know.
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October 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hello to everyone reading this. It seems our rankings weren’t affected by the most recent Google update! That’s the good news, The bad news is it seems they changed the way Page Rank gets passed. It seem to me that there slowing down the rate at which page rank gets moved from one site to another. Just a few months ago we could pass a PR 5 in less than 90 days. With these recent updates it appears to be taking closer to 6 months.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
October 17th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Glad to see ya back around here man, that’s some good info about the rank and such. I don’t know much about it, I just have fun with it, but I know there is a method to it somewhere.
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November 7th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Content is king when it comes to increasing and keeping good page rank. There are a lot of ways you can manipulate your PR, but the one sure way to get better PR and keep it there is too have good, updated and relevant content on your website.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 8th, 2008 at 8:15 am
Yeah, I feel that Richard! It makes sense, and really…I don’t much care about PR on this blog, I’m not sure what benefit it will have for me? All I really care about is having regular readers lol. Welcome to the site!
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November 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
To be honest, you deserve a PR 5 or more. Only if the spiders had human tastes and could crawl your videos.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 23rd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Thanks Ganesh…it’s all good though, I get readers like you that keep coming back so that makes me happy lol. I’m not sure what a higher pr would mean for me though…..it’s all good anyway.
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November 24th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
well, instead of worrying too much about it.
I’m just gonna git my ass to work and build that pagerank step by step
no-where to go but up
im at prZERO
oops
thanks and take care
Bryan
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 24th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Yeah….I just let it happen man, it was just my first time being around it, so I had to make a thing of it! I don’t really care either way really man.
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November 26th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Hey Joe,
Your blog is now PR 2 and I’m sure if you keep on with this quality you’ll soon receive a PR 4 or more from google. Nice blog. I love it.
Cheers,
Daniel
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 27th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Hey, welcome to the site Daniel, thanks for the compliments. I’m not sure what a higher PR will actually do for me…it really doesn’t bother me, I guess it’s just another ranking system.
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November 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Joe,
Page rank is basic math. Take the page rank of the page linking to you and multiply by 0.85. Then divide by the number of links out from the page (including internal links). This is the PR contribution to your website.
Do this for each link coming to your website page (including your own internal links). Add up your PR contributions.
Google stores this as an internal number (not 0-10) for each link contribution. The toolbar PR is update every 3 months or so. Google keeps more timely numbers in its internal database.
Page rank is only a secondary factor in ranking pages. It is wise to build the PR of your site however. If a page has very low PR, Google will not index.
enjoy.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 30th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Welcome to the site Brian, and thanks for the tutorial! Actually, it really doesn’t bother me too much, it’s just fun to talk about because I know it bothers quite a few people.
As long as I go up and not down I’m good, even still….it wouldn’t be the end of the world.
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December 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 am
Google pagerank has been weird for me – having pagerank does not neccerssarily mean you have traffic. I have sites that are PR2 but only get 20-30 UV a day. Having pagerank didnt seem to increase visitors. Given the choice, I’d rather have visitors rather than PR as visitors = $$$
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 2nd, 2008 at 8:52 am
Yep….you said it buddy!
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I’m waiting google pr update
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 15th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Hahahaha, it’s not that special man…I just like to have fun with stuff that gets peeps all excited.
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December 22nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
Great video, but if you want to know yout google PR, I recommend you to use seotoolbar, it works faster.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Yeah…there are many ways to check it. Most will have to toolbar installed, but other online tools can sometimes give you the update status before the toolbar.
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January 5th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
How often is page rank updated?
My site has been online for 1/12 month and went from zero to 2.When is next update,is it regularly vevery few weeks or months?
Any help for web newbie appreciated.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
January 5th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
From what I can tell it’s pretty much every quarter….so every 3 months or so. I’m still not really sure how important it is though lol.
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January 7th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Oh, my gosh, Joe, you’ve been robbed!
You’re not going to believe this, but my blog went from a 4 to -1. It hurts, but it’s a mistake by AOL, moving our blogs incorrectly to Blogger, when AOL shut down. Oh, I’m a cross between hurt and furious. Still haven’t been able to get it fixed yet. Google thinks I’m “redirecting.” What’s really wrong is AOL shut down my blog incorrectly (actually about 5 of my blogs incorrectly). In other words, they didn’t really shut them down, and they are redirecting to my new blogs. Redirecting of course is against Google rules. So now Google is disallowing indexing my blogs. They won’t allow my blog to be placed in their search engine under ANY keywords. This of course drives no traffic my way. Any new blogs I produce also are being penalized because they are somehow linked to my main blog now, which is linked to the “redirected” one. A total and horrendous nightmare. I believe that is how all AOL blogs are treated. I guess I better stop yapping with you and head over to google and tell them to please get on the ball and fix this mess. Perhaps I’ll go to AOL first. Hmmm. I must think fast. Ugh. A -1.
y blogs to appear on the pages (this hurts as I used to be at the top of several search engines
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
January 7th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
wow…you have quite the story there. I never had anything hosted with aol…and haven’t known anyone who has. That’s very interesting. I’m assuming that your sites are on the same server, which is on the same IP address…that’s why they are flagging them all. You may need to move to a new host to get away from that. Definitely sounds like you’ve got a mess on your hands. Which blog is it that you’re having issues with?
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January 11th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Great post joe , I love your videos so hilarious , my page rank went from PR 2 -PR3 this last rank update
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
January 14th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Good stuff man! Glad you like the videos yo, congrats on the PR update.
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January 18th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I’m loving the mcdonalds metaphor haha.
With the latest PR updates, my site didn’t change but I’m keeping my fingers crossed for next time. Just gotta keep on keepin on you know.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:38 am
Hahaha….it’s all good yo, I’m not really sure what the benefit of page rank is anyway lol.
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June 16th, 2009 at 4:53 am
lol nice video, grats on the PR, ive been stuck at PR 1 for ages now, allthough i dont think PR matters much now days.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
June 17th, 2009 at 6:59 am
Nah, it doesn’t really matter at all man lol. I don’t think so, maybe internal pr does, or maybe I’m just lost on the whole thing but I don’t really pay attention to it.
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June 26th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Cool videos. It’s very interesting. Honestly, I don’t know my page rank.lol..I really don’t pay attention to it that much. I’ll check it out. Thanks a lot dude!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
June 27th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Thanks, yeah man, I don’t think it’s really that important though lol, but everyone was going crazy about it!
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July 10th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Hahaha you’re so funny.
“I had my kids on the corner buying links”
Thats hilarious. Will be watching you in the future!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 11th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Hahaha, thanks…you know, you gotta do what you gotta do!
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July 30th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
jajajajajaj lol, love your video!!! i’m going to be as happy as your smile face if i can get pagerank1 too. but sure Googoo doesn’t like me…. xD seriously, love your video and also like your post. i’m thinking of starting a blog and get mad with lots of links everywhere… and posts like yours are helpful and i get much information. Helpful and funny, perfect post! I’m new here and this is the first post i read, but sure i’ll keep reading. Sorry for my english, and greetings from spain!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
July 31st, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Awesome, welcome to the site! I do hope you share your name with us and return back and stay involved. I tried to checkout your site but I can’t read it lol.
glad to have ya!
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September 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I am just confused on one point, I understand that Google weighs backlinks a lot but how does Google determine site’s traffic? Do they consider how many people are pointing to that site from their search results or what? Since, a data of traffic is usually known to the owner of the site.
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Really not sure how they truly work all that, they can track web traffic and if you install google analytics on your site they can see who comes trhough.
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September 15th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Normal Joe you rule man…great video…you are funny mate really like your video and good beard…
Google slaps on the butt like a baby….LOL funny man…
Thanks for the information though really appreciate
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
September 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
hahaha, thanks man, glad you like it.
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October 28th, 2009 at 12:15 am
I love the sarcasm in the video. I have been trying to figure out how pagerank works for a long time. My blog is fairly new, so I guess Google has not ranked it yet. But I hope they do soon. Keep up the good work & posts!
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Normal Joe (2055 comments) Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 5:48 pm
page rank doesn’t really matter as much but it doesn’t hurt, especially when some advertisers still consider it a major factor
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