Our page ranks

[James]

Just used http://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php to check out the "friends of MAWA" websites' Google Page Rank:

http://www.cadtutor.net 5
http://www.gardenvisit.com 5
http://www.websitearchitecture.co.uk 5
http://www.longplayer.co.uk 5
http://www.freedigitalphotos.net 3
http://www.zombielore.com 3
http://www.southeastart.co.uk 2
http://www.giglondon.info 0

My comments:

I thought Cadtutor and Gardenvisit would be higher, as they appear high in related word searches.

I am surprised at how high Websitearchitecture.co.uk is, unless David has been doing a lot of SEO?

Longplayer is high as well - my perception is that it has not been marketed yet, but it's been around for years.

Freedigitalphotos is about what I was expecting although Zombielore is the same. Based on the different AdSense incomes reported by Phil and I (http://www.websitearchitecture.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=726&st=0&#entry3491), I expected I would be higher.

Southeastart - again I don't think JG has started an SEO blitz yet so 2 is not bad.

Giglondon - as expected, with just a holding page at the mo.


Anyone else got any theories?

[Tom]

The trouble with these figures is that they are only for the Page Rank of the homepage. My homepage seems rather unimportant - not many people go there and not many click there. Given the importance of the LONG TAIL what matters is how many pages on a site have a decent Page Rank. Do you know of any software which calculates an aggregate for the Page Rank of a site.

The page rank for competitor pages is also important. For example, my page on Austrian Gardens has a Page Rank of 4 - but I come top on Google searches for these terms. This applies to a lot of pages on my site and seems to me more important than the Page Rank of my homepage.