Time and link popularity
Wednesday, January 28th, 2004Originally from January 28, 2004
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.
I was trying to figure out why my reciprocal links page on eslgo.com had higher PR than my esl-blog.com site. I thought that in time, if the links stayed the same, PR on the esl-blog would meet or exceed the reciprocal links page. While we do know that old links are good, I don’t think that line of thoguht ever led anywhere.
I’ve since given up on Google PageRank and reciprocal link pages.