Back in the day, when Page Rank was known on Google. Google ranks pages now, but they just don’t tell you anymore.
This is quite funny because now both my sites have this page rank, including this site. I am astounded to see that somehow this simple little “online notebook” is actually ranked at 2/10, while my Canadian Personal Finance Blog which has thousands of links and such is also 2/10 (but then again, so is the Canadian Capitalist, and he is a much higher ranked blogger than I am). What’s funny is our friend over at Canadian Money Review is ranked 3/10, yet he hasn’t posted anything in months (busy with a new baby and such).
I think I am getting my ranks back because I have turned off the “Bots” on my left over sites over at Blogspot. At the end of the year, I am going to delete the Financial One, since it still seems to be creating “echos” throughout the Web, and the redirection from Blogspot does not seem to work that well these days either.
Given that I am using Chrome much more these days, I haven’t really been looking at my page rankings (I don’t have a Chrome add-in for this), so I only noticed that this site seems to have a page rank of 2/10 on Friday. I am not getting deluged with advertising opportunities here yet, and somehow I doubt that will happen, but then again, you never know either.
Key details regarding the evolution of Page Rank:
- From Public to Private: Previously, the Google Toolbar showed a public PageRank (PR) score from 0-10. This was officially removed in 2016.
- Still Active Internally: Despite its removal from public view, Google confirmed that PageRank remains an active component of their ranking system.
- Improved Quality Signals: Modern PageRank is more sophisticated, focusing on trust and high-quality link equity rather than just raw link counts.
- Integration with Core Algorithm: PageRank is now part of a broader, more complex set of signals rather than the sole ranking factor.
- Expiration: The original PageRank patent expired in 2019