Page Rank vs SERP

swapw on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



This is also a …
This is also a false umption.

Blogspot is nowhere considered as authority, if anything it is always preferred to have your own website if you’re looking for a pure ranking purposes.

About what you say about PR, yes this directly relates to the ranking that I do talk about here in my video thus it is in agreement here.

michaelkarpeles on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



Your site is highly …
Your site is highly ranked because blogspot is an authority (as deemed by PageRank via ociation rules). Since your page is linked to blogspot, it receives increased authority. Imagine a new wiki article ranked on popularity. Without PR, the page would not be highly ranked because they have no hits. It would depend on random searches and or someone crawling through wiki (which is what PR handles). PR draws an ociation between Wikipedia and the new article and label it as an authority.

michaelkarpeles on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



“PageRank …
“PageRank Technology: PageRank reflects our view of the importance of web pages by considering more than 500 million variables and 2 billion terms. [...] PageRank also considers the importance of each page that casts a vote, as votes from some pages are considered to have greater value, thus giving the linked page greater value [...]”
- Google

And thus here is my rebuttal:

swapw on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



I disagree with you …
I disagree with you here in all. When people say a site that is “authority” it is not content that no one searches. That has been a myth. Almost all authority sites they are “popular” period nowadays.

About unpopular site not being able to rank high, that’s also false. If that statement were true, you might as well as give up SEO period. Take my blogspot site for example. It ranks real high for a lot of great kw and it’s no where near popular.

swapw on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



Popularity of a …
Popularity of a site is in many ways interrelated with PR, now I wouldn’t say that it’s the only thing. What you’re talking about here on the explicit weighing system was something that’s of the past yr or two but the big G has long changed the rules behind it since mid ‘08.

michaelkarpeles on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



Via a SERP …
Via a SERP implementation, users will only visit (randomly) a set of sites that are deemed popular — in terms of hits or number of times linked (whatever heuristic[s] google uses). Sites with the potential to be popular may never be seen due to the fact that unpopular pages are unlikely be listed highly. In this respect, it would be extremely difficult to find data that is deemed an authority/accurate but not commonly searched.

michaelkarpeles on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



I think you’re a …
I think you’re a little confused. SERP is the process of dynamically generating “reports” aka returning hypertextual markup correlated with a user’s query. SERP *can* list links in terms of popularity. PageRank is the algorithmic implementation developed by Stanford which measures a site’s “fittness” within a network by comparison (via an explicit weighting system). A higher PageRank value insinuates a page is more fit for viewing. Comparing the two doesn’t make sense and this is why:

MyNeeshes on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



Hi SWAPW, feel free …
Hi SWAPW, feel free to post your videos on web marketing over Neeshes-dot-com, and then you can link back to your site.

DigitalAquarius on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



Did anyone notice a …
Did anyone notice a 1 drop in ALL page rank on every site on the web?

theprocoder on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



i found it littel …
i found it littel bit good

ArizonaScenes on Sat, 6th Jun 2009 9:56 am 



Very good analogy, …
Very good analogy, thanks for this explanation.

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