Various PageRank™ oddities
The PageRank checker I’ve got in my sidebar stopped working for a few days, so I downloaded this PageRank extension for Firefox. It works really well, but I found some weird stuff while playing around with it.
First, the homepage of TBOTCOTW has gained in rank (from a five to a six) at the same time that it’s dropped from the first to the fourth search result for “Matt Moore”. How does that happen?
Second, AdActors.com has a rank of four, yet barely gets any traffic at all. The site has 544 visits this month, with only 127 of those off Google searches. Also, how in the heck did it get a four, anyway? The only links to it are from TBOTCOTW, The World Wide Rant, and ResurrectionSong. I don’t think three links from sites that all have a PageRank of six should equal a PageRank of four.
Finally, the most bizarre oddity of all. Why does Vodkapundit have a rank of zero? Steve gets four thousand visits a day, there must be at least one hundred links to his site from high traffic blogs, and it doesn’t appear that he’s blocking the GoogleBot (he doesn’t have a robots.txt file or any meta tags that would block the scrapers). Very strange, and if Steve had ads on his site, it would be a real drag on his revenue.
Popularity: 3% [?]
Vodkapundit; how long has it been active as a blog and as a domain?
The blog’s been around almost four years, I’m guessing the domain name for nearly that long. Interestingly, Google appears to have last cached his page on March 18th.
That’s weird. Have you asked them? Maybe they have it blocked for something – was it used for something else before that they didn’t like?
By “them” I guess you mean have I asked Google? No, not yet. I want to have Steve check a few things first, and I haven’t bothered to send him an email yet.