Digital Musings

Written on October 28, 2007 – 10:00 am | by Vikram |

I guess its time to change the name of Blog-O-Sphere to Google-O-Sphere, as a tribute to the Page Rank Update buzz everywhere. Every blog I read today has a post dedicated to this Subject. I was going to write about it immediately, but instead of taking the “reporting only” mode I decided to go into the “analysis mode”, wait a bit, see what this hoopla is all about and then write a relevant post. I call this the PPP Report. Not Pay per post, but Past, Predicted and Present (PR) Report.

This post is divided into two parts:

1. Table showing the Past, Predicted and Present PR of TOP 25 Blogs about Blogging.
2. Table showing the corresponding back-links to these Blogs to get an Idea how Google is distributing the PR weightage.

Lets start from Table one. Its lists blogs in the order of Importance which is determined by 4 factors: 1. Google page Rank. 2. Technorati Links 3. Alexa Traffic 4. Subscriber Base.

Since we are discussing about Google Page rank, Only that factor is displayed in the Table below. Orignal list is can be found at Daily Blog Tips

This table is made specially for self analysis (no its not tiresome) by you. If you see the Titles, they are “Clickable” and would sort the Ranks from highest to lowest and vice versa. For example if we see Past Title and click on it is sorted according to the Past Page Rank Sorting from Highest to lowest and vice versa. And the results are:

PAST: 1.Performancing. 2. Build a Better Blog and 3. Problogger.

PREDICTED: 1.Copy Blogger 2.Lorelle on WordPress 3. BusinessBlog.

PRESENT: 1.Copy Blogger 2.Lorell on WordPress 3.Build a better Blog

As we can see during the 1st Update ProBlogger was nowhere to be seen in the Top 10, but after the revised update its back in Top 3.As in the Tables you can see several authoritative blogs have dropped their PR. Several reasons have been sighted for this PR Drop. The Google data centers are still reporting scattered data, so it is difficult to know what will be the Page Rank of some sites involved in the previous penalties. I would be keeping a track of this and If anything changes, well one more column in the table (Its getting wider and wider, Hope Google makes up its mind soon, before I run out of space.)

Page Rank Report for Top 25 Blogs about Blogging

A Detailed analysis of the Page Rank on Todays Most Influential Blogs about Blogging.

Page Rank Report for Top 25 Blogs about Blogging

Rank	The Blog	Past	Predicted	Present
1	Problogger	6	6(6.3)	4
2	CopyBlogger	6	7(6.9)	4
3	John Chow	6	6(5.6)	4
4	QuickOnlineTips	6	5	3
5	Daily Blog Tips	5	5	5
6	Lorelle on WordPress	6	7(6.5)	6
7	Dosh Dosh	4	6(6.4)	4
8	Performancing	7	5(5.3)	7
9	Weblog Tools Collection	6	NA	4
10	Blog Herald	6	NA	4
11	Blogging Pro	6	NA	6
12	SucessFul-Blog	6	NA	6
13	John TP	6	NA	4
14	EngTech	6	5	5
15	Bloggers Blog	6	6(6.4)	6
16	Andy Beard	5	NA	3
17	ChrisG	5	5(5.2)	5
18	Converstations	5	6	3
19	The Wrong	5	NA	5
20	Business Blog	6	7(6.5)	6
21	Alister Cameron	5	5(5.1)	5
22	Blog About Your Blog	4	5(4.7)	3
23	Blogtrepreneur	5	5(5.4)	5
24	I Help You Blog	4	5(4.5)	4
25	BuildABetterBlog	6	5(5.2)	6

The reason for the penalties it not entirely clear yet, but Darren said that he got confirmations from two sources at Google that the penalties were being given exclusively for paid links, and not for cross-linking inside blog networks. This latest furore has all been about the selling of links and is a warning shot to bloggers and webmasters who engage in the practice. Of course not everyone who sells links has been hit (there’s no way Google will get everyone) but it’s a sign of what Google are continuing to crack down on.

With this table we get a hawks eye view of who was Where, What was predicted and What actually happened!! A lot of other blogs have made such lists but no where the data is comparable in these 3 modes and also none of them allow sorting and let any do any self- analysis.

After the Page Rank analysis, Its imperative that we look at the factor that helps one to improve the Page Rank : Back Links.

The table below displays the number back-links these Top Blogs have and how many back links you require to actually get a specific page rank. There is a Column included which shows the Back Links detected by Google. And the other two show the Total back links by All Search Engines combined.

Corresponding BackLinks Report for Top 25 Blogs about Blogging

Corresponding BackLinks Report for Top 25 Blogs about Blogging

Rank	The Blog	Source SmartPageRank.com	Source IWebTool.com	Source: Google Search
1	Problogger	84248	88,348	13000
2	CopyBlogger	63075	63,002	5990
3	John Chow	25665	25448	3450
4	QuickOnlineTips	7570	7576	880
5	Daily Blog Tips	9784	9659	882
6	Lorelle on WordPress	27162	27821	4750
7	Dosh Dosh	30487	35849	2820
8	Performancing	12092	13282	7350
9	Weblog Tools Collection	20308	Unknown	1840
10	Blog Herald	34000	Unknown	5880
11	Blogging Pro	36022	Unknown	5310
12	SucessFul-Blog	27489	Unknown	1500
13	John TP	24553	Unknown	2750
14	EngTech	5777	5707	1960
15	Bloggers Blog	24241	24092	2800
16	Andy Beard	9230	Unknown	864
17	ChrisG	8207	8040	516
18	Converstations	13601	13465	2620
19	The Wrong	23595	Unknown	1960
20	Business Blog	31630	31771	3740
21	Alister Cameron	11690	11581	970
22	Blog About Your Blog	1450	1573	594
23	Blogtrepreneur	6510	6517	513
24	I Help You Blog	1181	1211	151
25	BuildABetterBlog	2334	2334	813

If we see at this Table we get to see and compare some really interesting statistics. Problogger has the Highest number of Back links that amounts to 13000. The second position goes to Performancing that has 7350 links which is about 5500 less than Problogger. Now the interesting thing is Performancing has a PR of 7 and ProBlogger s on 6 . Now why could this be?

Number one reason: The kind of back links that you have. Obviously the back links for Performancing have sites that have a high PR occurance i.e many of the blogs/websites that link to it have higher PR than the ones that link to Problogger. Another interesting fact to note is that the Blog with the least amount of links, 151 links, I help you blog has a PR of 4, and which is less than almost 13000 links but only a difference of PR 2. This helps us understand how important it is to build Quality Links. From there on in the table we observe that the PR increases as the back links increase.

The source for the Page ranks and the Back-Links are SmartPageRank and IWebTool.I will be updating the list with more sites, and for any changes in data centres over the next few hours.

You might wanna bookmark or save this Page or Subscribe to my Feed, as I am going to write about the Page Rank changes of top 25 SEO blogs. Lets see how the Big Boys who teach guide us how to do Search Engine Optimization are doing!!!

BTW, Digital-Musings.com jumped from PR 0 to PR 4 today. So guess I am not doing too bad Eh!

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