Originally posted by joele I never understand these page rank things...
my personal site (more photo site than real blog) that is linked in my sig which I haven't been updating in ages and it is still google rank 4... Though my Alexa rank is around 20,000,000... lol...
Speaking of which I really need to get off my butt and update it in the next week or so, I have heaps of pictures to upload :-/
Google page rank weights on how many in-links you have on your site. If many other sites that has a google page rank that has a link to your site, your page rank will likely add weight into the overall google page rank calculation. Google rank don't decide how your page is indexed. Not all sites that link to your site is counted if there is a link attribute of "NoFollow." My google rank was zero a month ago and upon my recent reconsideration request, they resurrected my previous rank=3 to rank=2. Your page rank at 4 is pretty good Google page rank. I think PF page is likely at 4 or 5. Having a high Google page rank does not mean a thing as what is being indexed on the Google Search Engine is more important. There is no magic formula in how a search engine rank a page or index a page and a research into SEO for search engine optimization will enlighten you if you are curious. And the best site to leverage your site with Google is through
http://www.google.com/webmasters. And you can see from google.com or search.yahoo.com on how the search engine see your page. For example
You have over 3K+ links and it will explain your high Google page rank. You are pretty popular.
Alexa ranking is ranking site on a different basis, I think they rank the traffic to a site, the more page-view that they detect by some means of toolbar and widget, the higher the ranking is.
SEOMoz ranking is probably a mix of Google page rank along with other proprietary criteria set from the site in
http://www.seomoz.org.
We may be off topic. Just a note, you have beautiful pictures with your Olmpus gear. Are you still shooting Pentax? I hope you do! I still love aps-c and I am sticking to aps-c and I highly value Olympus 620 and E3. The body in 620 closely resembles a Pentax mx and Pentax SuperProgram body. Not as small but small enough to remind me of the great Pentax film bodies.
Warmest,
Hin