Page Rank, named after Larry Page, is a very confusing concept.
First of all there is the REAL page rank which only google knows. Then, there is the publicly viewable page rank on that little green bar (which has no significant privacy issues). It is only a faint distorted shadow of the real page rank. It differs from the REAL page rank since:
- real page rank is continously updated. Visible page rank is updated about 3x annually
- real page rank is a very complex calculation involving the incoming links weighted and adjusted in all sorts of different ways. Visible page rank is a simple count with occassional weird adjustments.
….”This page has been spidered and indexed but not yet ranked, so it makes sense.” Am I right?????
- the visible page rank for this page will someday appear. It will get most of it’s page rank (REAL & visible) from the vocab home page home from which it has a direct link. It will get some of it’s page rank (R & V) from the links that we are adding plus these links will refine for which terms this page ranks.
You are going thru a very similiar process that I went thru 5 years ago when I started T4L. I wish I had blogged about it all the way back. You can read some of it on the early “intermediate SEO” blog. Also, did I ever send you my powerpoint on intro to google?
Think of seo like soccer strategy. There are many basics to master. But then, it’s just an evolving game and much more art and feel than science.
