After writing about the psychological power of the little green bar we know as PageRank, I decided to put my theory to the test at DP. I used nothing more than a simple poll to see whether, after reading my thoughts on how PR might effect people, if it would change minds. I wasn’t at all surprised by the results, which showed a healthy 381 people had read the thread but only 32 daring to dip their toe into the realms of admitting what their views were. (at the time of writing this blog). When I let the cat out of the bag via p.m that it was a test with loaded questions, it went even quieter and no-one else replied. Chinese whispers at work again perhaps? I can almost hear people uttering, ‘What’s this all about?’, or ‘what’s the catch?’ or even ‘I’m not telling’.

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Posted By admin
Mar 30, 2008

Love it or hate it Page Rank (PR) is if anything, one of the biggest moot points in SEO there is, certainly within the directory industry. If you look at the vast majority of forums even remotely touching on seo and or the directory industry, you’ll see what I mean. So, with this in mind I’m taking on the challenge of looking a little deeper into this modern day phenomenon and the psychological impact, if any, its had on us.

This isn’t going to be a ’scientific’ look at Page Rank by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I going to look at the ‘why’, ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘how’, Google uses algorithmic manipulation to reach a conclusion of what constitutes a good PR and what doesn’t. I’ll leave that kind of thing to the hundreds of SEO experts and Mathematical Genius’ to work out. My goal is to look at the psychological impact, if any, PR has had on the internet, primarily the directory industry.

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Posted By admin
Mar 25, 2008