Comments on: How Does Your Blog Rank?

By: VlogHog

VlogHog — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:59:49 +0000

Is there a guide that shows the value of PageRank? For instance, a PageRank of 1 = such and such or PageRank of 3= such and such.

By: Jonathan Drain

Jonathan Drain — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:03:39 +0000

My bad, Bart and Dave!

The published PageRank figures take quite a while to update, so a site’s true PageRank may not be shown if it’s changed in the past few months.

Micah: This is true, PageRank is only one measurement. I’m on the first page of Google for “Chaotic Evil” with a page that ranks only PR2, but Dungeon Mastering is on page 19 for “Dungeons & Dragons” and D20 Source doesn’t show up at all.

By: Micah

Micah — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:10:44 +0000

IMHO, PR values are not as important as your association with particular keywords. Choose the words and phrases you want and make sure they’re in your page text, in the title tag, and used by others when linking to you.

For example, we (Obsidian Portal) have the phrase “Obsidian Portal” locked down. Duh. However, we would like to show up for phrases like “D&D campaign website”, which happens to show this blog very prominently, even though both this blog and Obsidian Portal have PageRank of 4.

So, focus on identifying your keywords and making sure they appear prominently in your site. That will work much better than trying to brute-force increase your PR score.

By: Dave T. Game

Dave T. Game — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:03:17 +0000

Yeah man, according to the archives, we’ve been doing this rpg blogging thing longer than you have :)

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:51:52 +0000

My blog is relatively new. In fact it’s that new I haven’t actually bought a domain yet so it’s running off a subdomain of my personal blog at the moment.

I do know however that if I’m very lucky it’ll maybe jump to a PR1 at the next update purely on it’s link from the RPG network. It’s never going to get very high however as I’m never going to have the time or the writing skills to get it into the Same league as the big guns :)

By: Bartoneus

Bartoneus — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:37:47 +0000

Wait, new blog? Critical Hits? We used to be at google PR 4/10 but were penalized (and dropped to 0) at some point in the last two years. I thought we were back up to 3/10 but I’ll have to check, thanks for the link!

By: Alex Schröder

Alex Schröder — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:13:16 +0000

According to some webpage I found the pagerank for my blog is a whooping five. I’m assuming that’s because of the main site at emacswiki.org has a mind bending seven, however. My RPG category has a page rank of nil, nada, zero. :)

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