4 SEO Websites That Should Blatantly Have Higher PageRank Scores
Do any of you get annoyed when you see usability and web design sites with phat PageRank scores of 7, 8 or 9 out of 10 whilst our very best SEO sites are only getting a score of 5 or 6? I do, here are 4 really popular SEO websites that I think deserve higher PR scores:
1/ In my honest opinion SEOmoz.org should have a PageRank score of at least 7/10 on its homepage. There are 156,000 organic links pointing to it and the SEOmoz.org domain has 1.8 million links in total including link from places like the New York Times and the BBC – the kind of links you drool over. SEOmoz haven’t cheated the system, they got those links because they are incredible at what they do, so why are they not getting the PageRank they deserve?
2/ Next up is SEO Book, another website that should have a PageRank 7/10 on its homepage, but it doesn’t because someone at Google thinks we need to be kept in check. The site has a similar link profile to SEOmoz with 176,000 links pointing at its homepage and there are about half a million links pointing to the SEOBook.com domain in total including dream links from places like The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.
3/ Jim Boykin’s site We Build Pages has attracted organic links from places like Search Engine Land and Labnol.org thanks to it having kick ass articles published on its blog. Plus the free SEO tools that it offers have gained the site loads. The WeBuildPages.com domain has around 32,000 links pointing to its homepage and about 48,000 links in total. Currently the We Build Pages homepage only has a PageRank score of 5/10, the amount of quality links it has should easily make it a 6.
4/ The BigMouthMedia website has been around for years and it has some amazing links from places like Wired and W3 thanks to it having white papers published on it and about 5 years worth of industry news. According to siteexplorer there are about 26,000 links pointing to the BigMouthMedia homepage and there about 38,000 links pointing to the site as a whole. The BigMouthMedia homepage only has a PR score of 5/10.
Stop spanking our PR scores Google!
Posted in SEO News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
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August 10th, 2009 at 10:49 am
hmmm…I am thinking of the the best 5 SEO websites this past few days,,,, and this 4 top SEO sites mentioned above is the same as what goes on my mind….well….gudluck to the other SEO sites…
August 23rd, 2009 at 7:54 pm
True…although pagerank isn’t important, its the SERPS and traffic that arrive…
September 1st, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Yes these deserve a better PR at least 8 each but in fact i think SERP matter more then the page rank and traffic is very important for a website.
September 10th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I can see your piont.
However as mentioned above Pagerank is no longer as important. Pagerank is only an indication and should be used for that purpose only.
Far to many people chase pagerank.
The most important aspect should be traffic.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
At the end of the day all the page rank in the world won’t help you pay the bills if your business is not growing.
September 14th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Does’nt it proove that there is something wrong with Google pagerank algorithm.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
I agree, I’ve found that traffic far out weighs page rank when considering your own sites performance. Page rank begins to play a larger role when building links but only pertaing to the sites that your links are coming from, not really yours.
September 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
As long as these sites haven’t promoted some kind of ‘link to us’ exchange then you’re right, they should be higher.
There are directories out there that have higher PR simply because they INSIST on a backlink, those are the sites that should get penalised in my opinion.
September 25th, 2009 at 8:07 am
Real life observation tells us that, more often than not, those who work the hardest achieve the most.
October 1st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hi David.
I agree with you that the above four site has less PR what they actual should get…
But another thing is that the only back links are not the key fact for high PR of any site. There may be some other factors which affect the Google PR.
I think we shouldn’t give the stress only the PR of a site, If the site gots less business to their competitor so what is the value for high PR. The PR is more valuable in the sense of Web marketing but not in any other factors..
Thanks!!
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I find SEOBook and SEOmoz really helpful for tips and tricks.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
I think you are right. These excellent SEO web marketing sources should enjoyed a higher PR from Google than what they have right now. Why is Google so slow to reward such great sites?
October 14th, 2009 at 10:07 am
I think you are right. These excellent SEO web marketing sources should enjoyed a higher PR from Google than what they have right now. Why is Google so slow to reward such great sites?
October 16th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Im sure big mouths website dissapeared for a while was this google saying they had done soemthing wrong?
November 18th, 2009 at 11:39 am
I agree but luckily PR isn’t that important anymore…
November 29th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Yes I agree for seomoz.org. I am using this site for long time. Very good articles and seo tools. Site has got solid visitors. Why these sites shouldn’t get good page rank.
December 7th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Hey I didn’t know about 2 of these websites so thank you, I’m checking those out.
But yeah Google should give them some better score.
December 16th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Great post in highlighting some really good companies.
December 18th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Hasn’t bigmouth had previous issues with google though?
December 20th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Totally agree on this one. Especially for SEOMoz and SEOBook. Great example how bogus Google’s PageRank really is.
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Thanks for info.
I have a question though, my twitter page has Pagerank 5, is it valuable for my website ranking? Some people say it’s useless. little bit confused?
January 11th, 2010 at 9:50 am
No wonder why they have a higher page rank score on net, they are all truly helpful and deserve to be on top because their information, tips and advices are really wonderful that even a newbie can easily adopt.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:37 am
Google doesn’t always get it right.
January 13th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Frankly Page rank has lost its fire for me, I dont even look at it any more… its not worth it.
Like someone else said, its the traffic and conversions that count!
January 30th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Link building is like drugs. You always want more, now , and sometime will do whatever it takes. Better the machines. Xrummer can post a 1,000,000 blog and forum post, and do it pretty darn well in about 4 hours. natural, heck no, but the programs keep getting better and better. Links like a drug, draw you to the dark site. use the force, one link and relationship at a time. the force can also include out sourcing your slow but sure Method.
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March 19th, 2010 at 4:45 am
I agree, I’ve found that traffic far out weighs page rank when considering your own sites performance. Page rank begins to play a larger role when building links but only pertaing to the sites that your links are coming from, not really yours.
March 20th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
I guess the biggest would be on seomoz, its really a wonderful site and there are a lot of websites linking to it, what is google thinking?
March 31st, 2010 at 3:56 am
I guess the biggest would be on seomoz, its really a wonderful site and there are a lot of websites linking to it, what is google thinking?
April 8th, 2010 at 8:22 am
Sure, these deserve a better PR, but SERP matter more then the page rank and traffic is very important for a website.
April 10th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Didn’t Google mention long ago that we would see a slight reduction of the PageRank values in certain sectors?
April 11th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
ye……… agreed
May 4th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Google doesn’t always get it right.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:29 am
I agree. SEOmoz and SEO Book should get higher page rank. They’re the authority as far as SEO is concerned, for crying out loud. Not to familiar with the other two websites though. But thanks for sharing, will check them out right now.
June 12th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Hi,
Pagerank is very important. Pagerank is only an indication and should be used for that purpose only.
Thanks for info.
June 14th, 2010 at 7:13 am
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.SEOmoz must be the number one.
June 14th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
I thought econsultancy would be up there somewhere.
June 21st, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Excellent Post,
I think you made a very good point, i am totally agree with you, SEOmoz is my favourite website.
Thanks!
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:06 pm
I agree. SEOmoz and SEO Book should get higher page rank. They’re the authority as far as SEO is concerned, for crying out loud. Not to familiar with the other two websites though. But thanks for sharing, will check them out right now.
June 23rd, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I agree but luckily PR isn’t that important anymore
July 13th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
PR means nothing now!!
July 13th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Who needs page rank lol.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Its true that PR means very little these days however for the more tech savvy people they still may prefer to visit a site that has high PR than to one that has not.
It is an interesting blog however and i am surprised a site such as SEOMOZ is not higher.
July 16th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
@ Andrew, SEOmoz is now upto PR8, this post is out of date, I need to get some new stuff on here.
July 23rd, 2010 at 1:07 am
Nice article, but it’s indeed strange that seomoz.org has only pagerank 7
August 1st, 2010 at 10:05 pm
although people say PR is not important, but I still feel that the higher your PR is, the higher your pages rank in the search engine.
August 10th, 2010 at 9:08 am
Google still hard to understand, hehehe
August 14th, 2010 at 12:57 am
Time will tell if their page rank improves. After all, SEO is a step by step and ongoing process so you never know. These are popular sites. All you need is many many people tweeting away about them and before you know it, the page rank will improve.
August 17th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Good simple tip..thanks for sharing it.
August 19th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
I think google are starting to move away from the page rank model – they are not giving it as much weight thats for sure. Google caffeine is a prime example – recent content is getting boosted and the recent content is not even getting page ranked.
August 24th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Yup, these 4 sites really prove useful when it comes to SEO. Now, I tend to wonder if Google is somehow against SEO. Understandable though, especially with the number of people doing blackhat seo and spamming relentlessly just to rank. Anyways, I too think that these sites deserve a little more PR.
August 31st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
page rank is not that important as it was, but still when a site has higher PR than another, this site will have a priority on the other.
October 6th, 2010 at 7:40 pm
PR really doesn’t make a lot of sense any more. I too believe that Google is giving it less weight than it once did.
November 2nd, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Even though these blogs don’t have as good a page rank as they should, I’m sure you know that its not as important as quality content (which these sites obviously have) and traffic (which these sites also have). So it seems that they are doing pretty well for themselves
Page rank isn’t everything
November 19th, 2010 at 7:20 am
Hi..!!
Nice article. I found SEOBook here which is very useful and helpful for SEO’s people.
November 19th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Being good PR is always good, every one runs in the race to get good SE ranking and to get high PR.
December 4th, 2010 at 12:34 am
Yup, you are right, these are all websites that should have a higher page rank, but they are just a few amongst many! In the end, page rank is not that important as it once was, I am glad to be getting the amount of traffic I am getting and that has nothing to do with my page rank, it;s just a measure and nothing else!
January 13th, 2011 at 9:10 am
It is absolutely true that you have to look not only on your PR but to add value to your products or services and to use the web to show them to customers and furthermore to induce them in the qualities of your products or services!
January 13th, 2011 at 9:11 am
The PR is very important but in my niche there are competitors which PR is lower but they are still higher in SERP !?
January 21st, 2011 at 4:20 pm
They still have PR 7 (SEOMOZ)
January 24th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
PR really doesn’t make a lot of sense any more…
February 1st, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Do you think Google really does actually penalize SEO websites with lowered PR because of what they do?
May 8th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I agree about the page ranking scores, but its google who calculates them, so email them
May 11th, 2011 at 11:11 am
gree about the page ranking scores, but its g
November 30th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
i dont need a page rank. I need google first page first position only not interested in page rank.
December 1st, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Totally agree on this one. Especially for SEOMoz and SEOBook. They should be ranked higher.