“How high does my PageRank have to be before I can celebrate?”
by ZetaGecko | 6 Comments | Marketing, SEO
Every time I see someone selling or trading a link bragging about it coming from a PR4 page, I'm not sure whether to chuckle or boggle. "PR4?" I think. "That's supposed to be impressive?" I guess it impresses some people, even if it doesn't impress us all. Which raises the question, what is "good" PageRank? I can imagine a few possible answers:
1) Good PageRank is anything higher than what you used to have. So yeah, PR4 really is good if you used to have PR3.
2) Good PageRank is however much it takes to move to the top of the search results. Keep in mind that higher relevance can overcome lower PageRank. A PR4 site that Google knows is highly relevant to particular search terms will come up higher than a PR7 site that's about something else but happens to mention those terms.
3) Good PageRank is however much it takes to get people to trade links with you. Of course, the higher your PR, the more likely you are to get lots of trades and trades from high PR sites.
4) Good PageRank is however much it takes to get people to buy links from you. But of course, higher PR will lead to a higher link price. (Just be sure not to claim to be selling PageRank, nor to tout your PageRank alone as the reason to buy the link--Google doesn't look kindly on people trying to game the system by selling PageRank).
So sure, be happy about your PR4. I'll be happy about my PR7.
January 10th, 2009 at 1:06 am
yeah I was wondering the same thing because I was just pr0 now I'm pr3 that's good considering but then again it goes up to 10 so.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
The goal posts have moved over the years as to how many links are required for a particular pagerank.
However, Pagerank has nothing to do with your SERPs.
That being said for vanity reasons, a PR of 5 in my opinion is decent.
May 28th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
I am a PR 1 and its taking me forever to get a higher PR. I just cant figure out what to do!! I can undoubtedly say that there is no glamor being a PR 1
June 18th, 2010 at 10:48 am
you know, I really think google judges sites on a whole new level now, So figuring out how to do it is just going to drive you crazy.
September 12th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
How important is the pagerank to position in the first page in google? I've seen sites in first position with pagerank 0.
November 26th, 2011 at 7:26 pm
My Page Rank just now went from 0 to 2 and I notice this change when I updated my Meta Tag info to more relevant keywords to my sites content. Google does make me wonder though because sometimes you will see a horrible content site have a High Page rank and a more professional site have a low Page rank.