2 Non US government Pagerank 10 sites

As you might are already aware of we maintain only updated and comprehensive PageRank 10 list in internet today. PageRank is one of the important and most popular crazy among webmasters. Recently we scanned all country level government sites for any new PageRank 10 sites.

We found 1 that is already not in list ( http://english.gov.cn/ ) Chinese government website. After a lot of research we found only 2 country government sites that are Pagerank 10 apart from US government website ( USA.gov ) . They are english.gov.cn and india.gov.in . I wonder how from so many countries only 2 government websites have PageRank 10. Does it signifies something i cannot guess

Alexa and sub domain rankings;

Alexa has improved a lot than what it was before in ranking sites. Before Alexa used to rank websites just based on alexa toolbar users. Now the criteria for ranking has changed they have tie up with other ranking companies and they use their own toolbar data with other company data to decide the final rankings. Still I feel alexa rankings are skewed and influenced more by toolbar related factors.

Well here the question whether Alexa sees sub domain as a separate entity to rank it? In most cases no alexa rarely sees separate sub domains as a different entity. I have seen BlogSpot domains having Alexa rank of 500. The 500 is not for BlogSpot sub domain but the usage of blogspot.com itself.

A word from the official Alexa blog:

Alexa’s traffic rankings are for top level domains only (e.g. domain.com). We do not provide separate rankings for subpages within a domain (e.g. domain.com/subpage.html) or sub domains (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) unless we are able to automatically identify them as personal home pages or blogs, like those hosted on Geocities and Tripod. If a site is identified as a personal home page or blog, its traffic ranking will have an asterisk (*) next to it: Personal Page Avg. Traffic Rank: 3,456*. Personal pages are ranked on the same scale as a regular domain, so a personal page ranked 3,456* is the 3,456th most popular page among Alexa users.

So they don’t separate if the don’t identify them automatically. They have such a dumb automated algorithm and it never detects proper sub domains. I feel Alexa need to improve their algorithm on working with sub domains because sub domains are actually different websites.

Google ranks a page of a website?

Google ranks pages not sites we know that but the real question does Google rank a page based on keyword relevance on that page or keyword relevance throughout the website? Based on my, admittedly very targeted, sites I have to say Google is now sophisticated enough to analyze whole site for relevance than just the ranking page. Pages, yes, words are analyzed and targeted. But Google also seems to understand a sites “keywords” and rewards with better SERPS when those are entered.

I look at it like this. I have a site about widgets, 1,000 pages primarily aimed at widgets. Each page is about a particular aspect of widgets, green ones, round ones, making widgets, etc. A couple of my pages on that site are about an apparently disconnected subject, e.g. plankton. The reason that a couple of plankton pages are there is because they are the source of the material which is used to make widgets.

I have loads of these “disconnected” pages, all written well and in the same style as the base widget pages. But they don’t rank for plankton. My guess is that Google can’t connect plankton and widgets and therefore the plankton pages are considered as less value.

Increase in traffic and rankings can cause manual review:

We have seen this across some major sites. If your site is doing very well and if its starts appearing for some rare competitive keywords I am sure your site will be subject to manual review by search engine specialists.

Search engines are very careful about the quality of their SERPs. We know from some internal knowledge that Google uses people to manually review their search engine results. Main flag areas are if a search engine detects big boost in backlinks from high pagerank websites then you can be sure to raise a red flag. A manual review is not always bad but again it depends on the reviewer. A reviewer sees in Google point of view and they are pretty strict on their guidelines even a site going little bit out of bound might raise questions in reviewers mind. We should be careful especially gaining lot of backlinks in short time since Google is always watching us.

Does pagerank for a website affect crawling rate?

Pagerank is just a value assigned based on pagerank of other pages linking to it. Crawling rate for a site depends on various other factors and its definitely not pagerank alone. Martin Buster of webmasterworld gives a good explanation of the myths behind pagerank and crawling.

“I can’t be more emphatic about the falseness of this emphasis on PageRank 4. It has to die. If you are going to get ahead you must walk away from this myth. It’s a number that was arrived at in relation to backlink searches many years ago. The situation that gave rise to the myth went away, it ended, but the myth endured. I’ll explain.

History lesson
Many years ago Google used to show the backlinks of sites with a PR of 4 or more. This caused webmasters to make the erroneous assumption that PR 4 is the threshold between a good ranking and a bad ranking, that Google did not count links from -PR4 sites. Otherwise, why didn’t they show them in the backlink searches? It could be said to have been a reasonable assumption but at the time the Googlers were saying this wasn’t the case.

To the webmasters, because Google didn’t show links from sites with less than PR 4, they assumed that -PR4 meant you were crawled less, had less authority, etc. Over PR 4 meant your site had finally arrived.

Then during a London Pubcon DaveN suggested to Matt Cutts that this scheme was inaccurate and Matt Cutts agreed. Not long after he arrived back at the Googleplex their search engine began showing a sample of backlinks across a range of PR.

Stop and examine the facts

Anyone who has ever ranked a site with an under PR 4 site knows that the assumption that -PR 4 is less worthy is an assumption without foundation. Anyone who has watched their rankings jump with – PR4 backlinks understands that the PR 4 threshold is absolutely false.

The superstition continues

So even though Google began showing PR 4 backlinks, to this very day many webmasters still cling to the mistaken notion that PR 4 is a significant threshold. It is not. This belief in the superiority or meaningfulness of PageRank 4 meets the definition of superstition: “A belief in something not justified by reason or evidence.” It’s a myth. The healing powers of PR 4 is a superstition.

So what determines crawling?

What determines crawling is the amount of links you have. Each link is a new door, so to speak, for a bot to find you. One can have thousands and thousands of links and still rank under 4, yet be better and deeper crawled than a PR 4 with less inbound links.”

Why Google Ranking Drop

Site ranking was quite consistent for sometime. But today they are minus across the board. What are the potential causes? Is this a manual or automated?

Most of the ranking drop are first manual and then move to an automated system. The most common cause for across the board ranking drop linking that seems manipulative or involves “bad neighborhood”. Undetected servers are culprit these days which hack the cloaks for Googlebot.

Use of Iframe sometime triggers a penalty but that is Google’s head ache because there is no such restriction of using Iframe unless the frame is legitimate. These ideas that I have listed are just the possibilities that could happen. If your site rank drops wait for few days before taking action. It may be Google bug which might get clear on its own. But try to a lot sometime to scrutinize your site for technical issues, undetected hacks and so on.

If you’re ranking don’t come back quickly then send a reconsideration request. In that case it is always good to have a few things to say about clean-up efforts you have made.

Shortest list of Pagerank 10 sites in history of Pagerank

From the day we started monitoring pagerank 10 sites 4 years ago this is the first time we have only 2 sites / pages with PageRank 10. This comes to a big surprise since w3.org , adobe.com have always remained Pagerank 10 years together. This is an indication that Google has made significant changes to their PageRank algorithm.

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/pagerank-10-sites.htm

Only 2 sites to retain their Pagerank 10 is Google.com and USA.gov. Please check the above URL for sites which has pagerank 10 and the ones that lost their PageRank in latest PR Update.

Google Search
10
649,000
287,461,306
http://www.google.com
US Goverment website
10
14,200
7,013,414
http://www.usa.gov/

We were expecting PR 6 but never got it. Hope we get it next time Pagerank is a good measure of the quality of the site and its healthy backlinks.

Matt cutts announces pagerank update

Google’s Mattcutts was the first one to announce a pagerank update which is in progress. Pagerank is right now visible in most of the places.

A simple cartoon showing matt cutts announcing pagerank update July 2008.
http://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-page-rank-update-comic.htm

July 2008 Pagerank Update in Progress July 2008 current Pagerank Updated datacenter 209.85.173.147

We are currently witnessing the July 2008 Pagerank update. Pagerank updates happen once in 3 months and the current Google page rank update is in progress. Last pagerank update was around April 28 2008 so its exactly 3 months and we have the 2nd quarter update.

You can check your pagerank using our pagerank checker tool we have set it up to query the updated datacenter:

http://www.searchenginegenie.com/search-engine-page-rank-checking.php

Current updated datacenter is :

July 2008 current Pagerank Updated datacenter 209.85.173.147

I hope you have new pagerank for your sites. enjoy our free tools and don’t forget to link to it.

Vijay

New SEO tool to be released by us coming week.

Already we have one of the best list of Free SEO tools in market. http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-tools.htm . Now we are working on a new tool which will give predict the pagerank of a website based on their current pagerank plus user input values. Currently we don’t have any real pagerank prediction tools in Internet. All the tools now either check various datacenters and display’s the Pagerank or give some random values. But our tool will use partially use the Original Pagerank formula. Our programmers are doing their best to get user values and current pagerank to predict new pagerank.

Original pagerank formula:

:
$PR(A)=\; 1\; –\; d\; +\; d\; \backslash left(\; \backslash frac\{PR(B)\}\{L(B)\}+\; \backslash frac\{PR(C)\}\{L(C)\}+\; \backslash frac\{PR(D)\}\{L(D)\}+\backslash ,\backslash cdots\; \backslash right)$

or (”N” = the number of documents in collection)

:
$PR(A)=\; \{1\; –\; d\; \backslash over\; N\}\; +\; d\; \backslash left(\; \backslash frac\{PR(B)\}\{L(B)\}+\; \backslash frac\{PR(C)\}\{L(C)\}+\; \backslash frac\{PR(D)\}\{L(D)\}+\backslash ,\backslash cdots\; \backslash right)\; .$

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank