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Time and link popularity

My reciprocal links page for ESL go has 4 links (all from other eslgo.com pages). and a page rank of 5. The links:

www.eslgo.com - page rank 6 (5 external, many internal links)
www.eslgo.com/sitemap.html - page rank 5 (no external, many internal links)
www.eslgo.com/tlinks.html - page rank 5 (about 50 external and a few internal links)
www.eslgo.com/slinks.html - page rank 5 (about 50 external and a few internal links)

It used to have a page rank of 4 with the same exact links (none of which have changed rank or (substantially) the number of outbound links (which increased a little bit). It seems like the page rank increased over time.

My ESL blog has a rank of 4 with these 5 links:

www.eslgo.com/ - page rank 6
www.eslgo.com/tlinks.html - page rank 5
www.esl-blog.com/ - just itself
songsforteaching.homestead.com/ LinksESLBilingualMulticultural.html - page rank 4 (5 external links) - at one point this was the only page google recognized linking to my site. ESL blog had a rank of 1 at that time.
www.literacyconnections.com/ LinksESLMulticulturalBilingual.html - page rank 4 (6 external links)

I would have guessed that ESL blog would have a better rank (due to the external links). I wonder if (supposing the links stayed exactly the same), the page rank would increase after a month or so.

Posted by James Trotta at January 28, 2004 5:39 PM