So Much for The PageRank on the Niche Blog
July 29, 2008
I figured I would use my assets with experiment of building a niche Ebay blog. I had a domain with a PageRank of 4 that I used to sell Ebay software and ebooks from. It had been banned by Google about 4 years ago and I have been just sitting on the domain, waiting. I had no use for it other than it also held my main email address. I figured Google would give me a break sometime.
But the same thing happened that happened the last time I thought it was safe to put a site on the domain. The PageRank was 4 before the Google update and 0 afterwards. This happened to me once before. But this time I clicked around. The "About" page has a PageRank of 2. So I am going with it. Not sure why the homepage went back to 0, but now is not the time to regroup. I just have a few more handicaps.
My main blog took a hit, going from 3 to 4. At first I was worried, then I realized I specifically tried to move the Pagerank deeper into the blog by linking comments I made to the most recent post rather than the homepage. So I am not worried. My traffic has not dropped. The number just changed.
You have to realize that between each PageRank update, there are probably hundreds of thousands of new sites born and millions of pages. In a system where the rank is measured from 1 to 10, this will have to cause each point to be much more valuable. If the amount of links to your site remained the same during the gap, chances are, your PageRank will drop because more sites have to fit into each rank number. It’s just math.
So if your site got hit, don’t worry. I know what a banned site looks like and it’s PageRank is blank.
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