Joe Majewski

Earning PageRank 0

On this day, November 14, 2009, Google has finally given the homepage of this site a PageRank value of zero. Prior to today, none of the pages on this site had PageRank information available. Note: PageRank 0 is not the same as PageRank N/A.

It only took two weeks for me to get noticed by Googlebot, which was much shorter than I expected. PageRank 0 doesn’t seem like anything to get excited about, but this just goes to show that putting time and effort into a project can produce desired results. PR1 is the next major step forward, and it’s going to take an even greater amount of effort.

What’s the difference between PageRank N/A and PageRank 0? The difference is quite large actually, and the same goes for the difference between each step in the PR ladder. Google will put more weight on my website when it’s within the pool of results grabbed from the search query than it did before. So now, when someone searches Google for “PageRank”, I will be much closer to the front of the results. Granted, it would be a miracle if I ever actually reached the first page for such a popular keyword, but you get the point.

I have another blog with PR1. Every time I post a new article to that blog, it immediately goes to the top of the search results (or very close) for queries containing the exact title of the blog post. This is not always the case, as if I write about something very popular in the news (such as the death of Michael Jackson), my article will not make it to the first page unless I alter the query to add more of my site’s keywords. Granted, not a lot of people search Google for the exact name of the blog posts I write, but rather for more generic phrases.

Here’s to PageRank 1!

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