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How To Launch Your Website,
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What is Google's PageRank? If you have ever done any reading about search engine optimization or were just curious how you can get your site to the top of the Google search engine results, understanding PageRank is vital. I'm going to introduce you to the basics of PageRank and also provide a brief discussion on how much you should really worry about PageRank if you are running a website or Internet business.
Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, invented PageRank and it forms the basis for how Google works. Google didn't become the best search engine in the world by chance, it became the best search engine because it provided the best results. PageRank is in fact the technology that gave Google its competitor-killing edge, a way to greatly improve the accuracy and validity of a search response to a user query.
In essence PageRank provides a means to determine the value of a website for any given search term or keyword phrase. This value is determined by how websites link together with the more popular (and theoretically better) sites receiving more links. It's these incoming links that help the site have a high PageRank value and thus display higher up in search results.
Let's read how Google explains their PageRank system:
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
The key rule to understand is that it is a combination of variables that determine how well your site performs in Google. These are the most important variables to worry about:
Some of those factors you can control, others you can manipulate but not directly control. The important thing to understand regarding PageRank is that all those variables will determine how high your site shows up in search engine results. PageRank is the name for the technology that ranks sites and includes all those variables and many more.
If you install the Google Toolbar into your browser you can choose to switch on the PageRank display (it's in the options). This will make a little green bar appear above web pages you visit. The green bar represents the PageRank of the page you are viewing in your browser. The ranking starts at 0 (no ranking) up to 10, the highest ranking and can be blanked out completely if the page has been banned from Google. If you don't want to use the toolbar you can try this free PageRank lookup tool to find the ranking for any web address.
Google created quite a storm when it launched its green PageRank bar. Webmasters became obsessed with methods to increase their PageRank and high PageRank sites started selling text links for hundreds of dollars. A link from a high PageRank page, from a PageRank 7, 8, 9 or 10, has been known to make lower PageRank pages increase a full number, even two if the incoming link is from a PageRank 10, and there is no doubt it is good for search engine rankings.
The problem with PageRank being displayed in a little green bar is that it is very hard to really gauge how valuable a ranking is. The Google PageRank technology is complex containing many variables, some of which I mentioned above, and to interpret a number from 0-10, especially when only Google really knows how it works, is difficult. Worse still, the visible representation, the green bar that the public can see, only changes on a quarterly basis, while the real PageRank of a page changes on a daily basis. Most of the time you are looking at a very outdated ranking value.
PageRank paranoia is an issue that every webmaster may fall victim to. There are rumours that Google will be changing the PageRank system because they are not happy with how it is being manipulated and interpreted. As a rule of thumb, watch the green bar with interest but don't take it too seriously or spend too much time trying to force it to increase (staring and yelling at it will do you no good, trust me on that one).
Search engine optimization experts actively track PageRank and investigate things like page backlinks to try and work out what the top search engine ranked sites are doing right so they can replicate and then surpass them in the rankings. This is a very good strategy for any person running a web business looking to improve their search ranking. There is no need to reinvent the wheel – copy what works and do it slightly better than the competition.
This is all good in theory, but unfortunately there is a good amount of randomness in PageRank and search engine results. Google of course would argue that it's not randomness and their PageRank system is merely using algorithms that we don't understand, and no doubt that is true, but for the human webmaster trying to get traffic, PageRank and Google can be baffling sometimes.
There are instances of high PageRanked sites having little to no backlinks. Given that incoming links are one of the most important variables used in PageRank calculations you have to scratch your head and wonder how a site with no links could have a big green bar. Google's own backlink lookup tool (see this article – Beginners Guide To Backlinks – for details) is another phenomenon that search engine experts often choose to ignore rather than try and evaluate.
Thankfully the randomness of PageRank can result in positive outcomes as well, with your sites jumping high into search results in places where you wouldn't expect it. The only consistency is randomness but there is logic that can be followed and smart search engine optimization practices that when implemented well will work. Just don't expect it to work precisely how or when you want it to.
This advice I offer from experience as an avid PageRank chaser and search engine optimizer. The key to gaining PageRank is to ignore it and focus on the variables that control it.
Having people link to your site has always been a good thing and PageRank was in fact a result of this. Don't get confused with the order of things, first came the Internet and links and then came PageRank. Focus on amassing quality incoming links from quality sites relevant to your site. This practice will naturally improve your PageRank and also increase the amount of visitors coming to your site. Don't get bogged down chasing links from only high PageRank sites or waste energy adding links from just any site willing to link to you. Do things naturally and your site will grow naturally.
Learn about the importance of keywords. My SEO articles will help you with this. Keywords play a crucial role in bringing the right type of traffic to your site but you should never spend half an hour in front of a computer trying to come up with the perfect title for your article. Name your content logically and think about what search words your audience would use to find your article and you can very quickly and easily develop good keywords without spending hours and hours tweaking every little phrase and heading. See what your competitors do in regards to keywords if you are completely lost.
If you build a good website with good content, always keep in mind your important keywords and proactively work every day to earn and create new backlinks to your site you will improve your PageRank. The best sites with the highest PageRank never worry about PageRank, they simply keep churning out content that people love to link to. This is a strategy that every webmaster and Internet entrepreneur should emulate for success online.
Yaro Starak
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I came across this not long ago: a PageRank prediction tool. I don't know how it works, but it does gather it's data straight from Google. Fascinating stuff!
Even though I am not personally concerned with PR, I am a tinkerer and love finding out how things work. It still is a fascinating subject! – Nards
Hi Andy – thanks for the tool link. I'm not so sure how accurate it is but it's the first tool I've found that seems to be trying. I like it's result for this blog too! 😉
Also of interest, it predicted a PR 7 for the million dollar homepage. I'd believe that.
Hi Yaro,
Nice article.
I was going to write about this subject myself, but now I think I will just link to this post instead.
It does tie in quite nicely with an article I wrote the other day about the use of link exchanging to boost page rank.
Great article once again yaro.
To Andy, do we know how this prediction works? Do we also know how often google updates pageranks?
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Do you know how often Google updates it PR? I have heard that it is about once every 3 months.
I'm curious to know because my darvastrade.com website fluctuates between results 5 and 10 for a search on 'Nicolas Darvas'.
I don't understand how it can appear ahead of pages with a higher PR.
Any ideas?
James – I'm only making a wild guess here – maybe the PageRank Prediction tool uses the Google API to get its info. If you click the (check) link next to the results (here's an example of this site), you'll see the address points to Google's domain. The PageRank Prediction tool probably looks for the largest value as its basis of the prediction.
If I can chime in here Dominic, you shouldn't confuse search engine rankings with actual page rank and toolbar pagerank. Although I believe Google only reindexes the web every 3-4 months, your SERPs can fluctuate within that time frame. Brad Fallon has some good stuff on explaining the difference between PR and SERPs and how they inter-relate.
Dominic – what Will said. Your PageRank effects how well your site performs in search results pages. Visibly the toolbar seems to update about every 3 months (but no doubt behind the scenes it changes constantly). The results in search engine pages are completely dynamic, hence your site is always moving up and down in search engines.
I am not sure how important the PR numbers on the little green bar are. People overemphasize this too much IMO. Sure, it's one factor – but Google uses over 100 factors in its algorithm. If all other factors are equal, it may put your site above others but keywords and the website text content are more important for me.
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Thanks for the article! As a full time developer, this information is exceedingly useful to me.
QuickBits: October 7, 2005
Another eventual week in the life of this serial internet entrepreneur whose gone blogging mad
On Monday I launched my newest blog, BlogNetworkWatch, which as you might have guessed watches the goings on of the blog networks. A nice and quite week …
PageRank does not play a part in keyword ranking. This is why high PR sites do not dominate off-topic keyword areas. Actual PageRank is unknowable (the green bar 'aint it).
PR is yesterdays news. Instead, think in terms of longevity and community. Search on "Mike Grehan"
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Thanks for explaining google page rank.
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Great starting article! I recommend reading everything you can about this. You can't afford to ignore online marketing opportunities.
I have a lot more information on my website. This stuff can get really tricky, and it's important to not just go out and get a ton of links overnight. My site tries to network people and link related sites.
This site is still in beta, but there is some good information available:
Great article Yaro, interesting read, thanks.
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Nice Article. Do you by any chance know how the paerank formula can be calculated? I understand that it takes the PR of all sites to the equation. But what determines that?
Yaro, I'd have to argue (as Mike Grehan does), that PageRank is now nothing more than green fairy dust with virtually no value at all to a webmaster, SEO or content builder.
If you probe a little deeper into the SEO/M world, you'll see that this is, indeed, widely known among community members and professionals alike. PageRank was once a very important part of Google's ranking algorithms, but has gone the way of the Dodo bird and stuffed meta tags.
Anchor text, on-topic links, subject-specific communities and link poularity within them are all much bigger parts of the ranking equation.
However, I like your writing style and blog – keep digging and you'll find some great stuff in the world of SEO.
Randfish – yes I agree with you that most SEO experts and marketing professionals will understand that we shouldn't be devoting too much energy to PageRank, however because of it's visibility and popularity (regardless of value) I still consider it an important factor.
If for nothing else, a high PageRank demonstrates credibility. I have plenty of friends that will look at the greenbar as one of the first things to evaluate a site. If they see a PR 3 or less then they may surf away on that stat alone. If they see a PR 6 or more they pay extra attention.
Yes it's only a certain type of (perhaps misguided) browser that reacts this way, but that's the way it is (no doubt Google didn't intend the green bar to work that way). Until a new green bar comes along or if Google drops in popularity I don't think PageRank is ever going to be something worth ignoring, despite what the traffic figures tell you or the SEO experts understand.
The fact that this article on PageRank doubled the amount of visitors to this blog demonstrates it's influence, in a sort of indirect way.
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Does the text in , etc.. tags have a great effect on page rank?
I disagree with Randfish. It's true that many or most SEOs consider PageRank to be only a tiny ranking factor these days, but that view has evolved through the years more as a "probably", and even rumour, than as anything based on evidence. To the best of my knowledge, there has been nothing to suggest that the weight given to PageRank when scoring the rankings has been reduced to being almost irrelevant. Having said that, there's also no evidence to suggest that its weight hasn't changed through the years. I disagree with assuming that it's changed without anything to back it up other than what people say.
I agree completely with the idea of not chasing PageRank, though. Chase IBLs, and the PageRank will take care of itself.
Thought readers might be interested in this blog entry about PageRank and SEO as a web comic –
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…There are rumours that Google will be changing the PageRank system because they are not happy with how it is being manipulated and interpreted….
Are you sure?
I believe, google would be more interested in making their search results more relevent than worrying about how people misuse it. Also, that 'nofollow' thing being recommended by google shows how helpless they are in this regard.
[…] The PageRank update (learn about PageRank) has been occurring over the past 24-48 hours. My friend Alborz, who manages the MyWeblog free blog hosting service has been jumping up and down with glee as his blog went to a PageRank 5. Regardless of what you think about PageRank, an increase can really put a smile on a webmaster's face. […]
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[…] It's all speculation am I'm fairly certain it will calm down and settle like usual. When Google plays with PageRank, just like when it was offline for nearly a month last year, all kinds of speculation goes on. It shows despite that fact that we shouldn't pay too much attention to PageRank it really still has an impact on us Webmasters. We just can't help but chase the little green bar. [ | Add Your Comment ] […]
I understand that google takes into consideration the realevant links to your site when assesing Pagerank, but how long does it take to regognise your links as realevant?
Im currently running a pagerank experiment to sEE if its possible to get a new PR0 site to a P10 in 2 years.
You can view its progress at http://www.pagerank10.co.uk
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Page rank has been the focus of many web developers as sort of a benchmark to how popular the site is even though page rank by many accounts is starting to be devalued and keyword density etc are more important to having your site listed at the top of the engine. With all that said I would still love to have a higher page rank and also for google to update the rank more frequently.
I am also running an experiment with Google Page Rank; I'm trying to see how fast I can get my site up to 5 from initial launch of my site:
I'll come back with updates.
Well only after 3 weeks my site had a predicted pagerank of 5 in the next update using the future pagerank tool.
Although this is only a prediction it shows it can be possible.
Hi Yaro,
Excellent article.
I was going to write an article on this subject but after reading your article i just link your article from my blog website. Nice Job..
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Jimmy – Sure, by all means link to this article as an explanation for PageRank, I appreciate the vote of confidence. Cheers!
it really warms my heart to read a post like this. Thanks for explain about pagerank!
I don't know how many times I've said to others (and myself) that pagerank green bar watching is just a futile, frustrating experience, yet when Google updates, my heart goes pitter patter in anticipation of where the little green monster ranks my work 😉
– Kenny
Thanks for the interesting article. There are some good comments to. As for the ranking of search results and PageRank influence on the algorithm, seems maybe the biggest factor can be smart keyword selection (and I don't mean those worthless META keywords). If you find keywords nobody is optimizing for, it's a lot easier to jump up in the results.
Thanks for the article Yaro. I know google can be baffling sometimes, and I can attest to the randomness of their search results.
– Bryan
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I've been going through the PR building process again with a new site I started up, Credit Card Debt Reduction, and it's always a bit of a challenge. Yaro is right, all you can do is focus on what you can control, like link building, on-page SEO, and, of course, content.
Great article. We tried to make our site easy to navigate and added some quality articles and resources for our visitors. We rank well w/ most keywords related to our products but the main keyword "sports memorabilia" we are nowhere to be found. I understand the sandbox theory. But can someone tell me if your PR & baclinks get updated while site is in the sandbox or do you have to wait until it crawls out?
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People only want their sites to gain high and high page rank but only some of them have got.While if any blog which is just bogus demanding then how come its page rank would be high.
You always offer really good advice. I have increased my traffic thanks to your newsletters and I appreciate it. Now if I could just get a link from Dooce!
Hi Yaro,
I noticed this page has a PR5 – must be good content!
Thanks for explaining it.
hey pls any one tell me how to increased traffic in my site. can u pls send me mail in this id [email protected]
some question here:
If there is a page with PR4, and the content doesnt change for over 4 months or even more, and, I dont add inbound link to the page during the time, will the PR down after a google PR changes?
I just started up one of my first sites and I find the idea of page rank interesting. So far I've got a 0 but I've only been up for a week. How long will it take to update?
How often is the page rank updated?
What is considered to be a good page rank?
HI, I was wondering those Google like those kind of backlink?
http://www.visipixstudio.com In the footer there is a link called Visipix Network.
Thanks for your help and commments.
Eric Senecal
Kevin… page rank lately is updated 3-4 times a year! Good page rank is 5, 6, 7 – it's hard to get PR 5! You have to work a while!
Hoe werkt PageRank?…
Een link van tipt.nl zal zeker helpen :-)…
Great topic yaro! sure cleared up alot for me.
Nice Article. Do you by any chance know how the paerank formula can be calculated? I understand that it takes the PR of all sites to the equation. But what determines that?
You can look up google's explanation of the PageRank formula, however I don't think anyone knows exactly how to calculate it from a practical standpoint – only Google technicians.
We are experimenting to see if Affiliate Programs will make a nudge in the search engines. So we'll see how it will all go. These articles help alot.
So until the next PR update, Google ranks a website on its old PR, despite the fact its current PR may be higher?
Google ranks a site based on a constantly changing PR – what is current in the toolbar doesn't not reflect the current reality since links to website are always changing.
I have one site that Google indexed on 01. of August, 2006. and I still haven't got PR on that site. It means that more than 3 months passed and the page hasn't received any PR. Does someone know how long it takes to get PR?
Thank you Yaro for your article very interesting.
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Hi Guys,
I am a luxury retailer and I have three websites working for me promoting my luxury pens:
see http://www.elegant-lifestyle.com
(ConwayStewart banner)
Can any one tell me how I can rank 1-10 on goggle for Christmas gift, Unique Gift, Mens Gift.
Chuks Uwaechia
Thanks Yaro for the Nice article! As a full time developer, this information is exceedingly useful to me.
Hey Yaro, nice explanation! Thanks for posting this information. Greetz, Tottigol
But what about the text in , etc.. tags… Do they have a great effect on pagerank?
PageRank still bemuses me – is it better to therefore have one-page websites with focussed content linking to you web page and prevent indexing or link follows on your main site…..worth a try.
[…] I have a confession to make. Ever since I installed the SearchStatus extension into my FireFox browser I have discovered a new addiction to go right along with my healthy love for PageRank – it's close cousin, AlexaRank. In this case the bar is blue, and unlike PageRank the statistic AlexaRank represents has more to do with traffic and reach than search engine ranking authority or incoming links, but like PageRank is probably best interpreted as a "fun tool" rather than a definitive way to evaluate a website. […]
Does the text in , etc.. tags have a great effect on page rank?
regards from Poland,
I trully understand how hard it is to reach a good pagerank, and also how much it takes …to see PR results .Is a very interesting page that keep me udate .
Hi Chris – I don't think your comment came out right since you may have used code so I don't understand your question.
Feel free to post again and I will see if I can help.
Well the Artical is good. Not very deep but good.
It is funny though, that everyone here tryes to get that ext. links by saying "mysite.com website is…" or the "Comment by mysite.com".
People, wake up!!! Leave the links and do some work!
PS! Sorry for the "dead" link, but I don't have a site yet.
dont wanna be a victim of PR paranoia but the strong relation among page popularity and number of essential links you make to your site with PR makes me think it's a good measure for my site importance. isn't it true?
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I have recently started an Africa travel and Safari forum – http://www.safaritalk.net using Invision Power Board. Does page rank take into account pages that are php? Also as this forum is non commercial it won't feature many outside links meaning it will likewise receive few inbound links: how can one increase page rank status without a whole list of linking websites other than standard in page optimisation?
Thanks in advance. Matt
Very nice article on google's PR…it was very helpful.
PageRank ist just one of many criterias that Google uses to calculate the rankings. So a high PageRank doesn't make a good ranking. 😉
very interesting is the point of getting pagerank without links AND without content. I have a webpage for more than 7 years now, but I never got backlinks and there was a problem with the links on the start page, so the spiders did never follow any link. Additional there was absolutly NO text on the startpage. And the page title was only: welcome at… At the end after 7 years, the page had a pagerank of 3 (But remember: no spidered content, no backlinks). So I guess also the age of a page should be an important point.
Thank you for the explantion of Page Rank. As for myself I was thrilled to see my Page Rank is up to a 2 out of 10! I take it only that I must be doing something right and my content is valuble to some. As far as other sites without any page rank, I find many things valuable in them also. As with anything it can be taken with a grain of salt. Thank you again for the Great information I always find at your site. Cheers and God Bless!
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2007 Feb – next PR update this mo ?
Anyone knows ?
Is there a website out there with a PR update history ?
Very Informative article indeed. But i am still confused, why some really popular sites has a page rank of 0?
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In my opinion PageRank is just a "number" that people fixate on. People love rankings for things and PageRank is a good example of that.
For instance, one of my site's is PR5 and it links to another page which is now PR4, I'm guessing solely due to that link (it's the only link to the page!). It gets very little traffic so I'm a bit confused.
Nonetheless, it can't hurt to be PR10 can it? By the way, for the math people, what is the base used by PR? Is it base-10? I.e. is PR6 10x as good as PR5?
Mike – http://www.entreblogeur.com/
Good job Yaro!
Find out which Blog Directories are linking back to your blogs and which are only trying to increase their own PR (page rank)
Do you have any tips on what happens if your PR goes down in value? How do you get it back?
Chesq – just keep focusing on attracting links from authority sites over time and your pagerank will increase. If you are not building new links with higher pagerank than yours your own rank isn't going to increase.
Page rank is just one of over 400 pieces of information Google uses to determine SERPS. PR alone will not get you a top 10 ranking. Most webmasters don't realize this, but if they would just focus on creating well optimized pages and inbound links to those pages with their keywords in the anchor text, they will have a much better chance of ranking well for their keywords. This does not happen overnight and as long as you stay the course and repeat your seo efforts over and over you will be rewarded in the end. I have seen site with a PR5 that don't rank well for anything. IMHO, PR will come last after you have done everything else right.
Going after high PR will not place you on the first page of Google results, it is just not enough. If Google counted just on that manipulatable bar to show its results it wouldn't be what it is now – the best SE. There are many more important factors that PR that were already mentioned here – links from authority sites, links from relevant sites and etc. Yes, high PR helps but it is far far away from enough.
PS. I doubt that expriment with the PR10 in 2 years will be successful. The function calculating PR isn't linear and I am sure it depends on some other factors too.
Agreed! PR has so much more weight when coming from an authority site. Having a PR 6 link from a beer authority site to your book & CDs site will not buy you much in the SERPS. But if your books site has a link from Amazon…now that means something to Google and you have a better chance of ranking in the serps.
I am not sure how important the PR numbers on the little green bar are. People overemphasize this too much IMO. Sure, it's one factor – but Google uses over 100 factors in its algorithm. If all other factors are equal, it may put your site above others but keywords and the website text content are more important for me.
Hi all,
I have recently been working on submitting our website (http://www.applianceplanet.co.uk) to directories with high PR on the listings pages. It has cost us a couple of hundred pounds but I believe with backlinks from high pr pages we will definitely be at an advantage 1 month down the line.
Also, I think most people do not realise that having outbound links on your website leaks some PR so if possible you should change your outbound links to use javascript so google does not pick these up at links.
This is quite a big topic and one factor such as PR is simply not gonna be enough to drive traffic to your website. There are a thousand things one can do.
Does anybody knows, where to download pagerank plugin for Safari(macosx)? Does it exists? 🙂
My page rank just dropped from 4 to 5. Did I do something wrong? The only change I have recently made was to add a www in front of my domain name. In other words I usually just use http://susansdesign.com for my Url and then I read something about the important of adding the www. So now I have been adding the www to my domain whenever I add it to some new place. It now is http://www.susansdesign.com Is this really important or did this mess me up?
Any ideas?
Does the text in , etc.. tags have a great effect on page rank?
regards from Poland,
Hi Joshua,
Unfortunately your code didn't come through so I'm not sure what you are asking?
I thought your post to SEO was pretty good. I've been working on a site called Free For All Reviews and its only about 3 weeks old now but I used a strategy to get my site indexed in Google by obtaining a backlink from another site with a PR of 5. Well in 3 days my site was indexed. I thought that was pretty cool!
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i still dont understand how it works…
Very useful article.
Is it true, that PR is less important for SEO than few years ago?
Seo IS and will be SIMPLE no need to keep it simple 😉
Good job.
A while back my PR dropped 1 point to a PR5 (from a PR6). Strangely the visitor numbers have been growing since that so the PR can't be the only thing to worry about. I'd been a PR6 for way over a year so was surprised at the drop as the content has increased a lot and so has the number of inbound links.
Any ideas? 🙂
Hey Mike – PR changes a lot and it's very hard to correlate changes in traffic directly to PR since it's only a very small part of the influencing variables that impact traffic.
Watch the traffic and conversion data, it's way more important.
I believe, google would be more interested in making their search results more relevent than worrying about how people misuse it.
Forum Nox.
I recently experienced ups and downs in pagerank of many pages in last 2 months . Even my blog page fall down from 0 to 2 . I come to know that previous year as well People faced similar problem. Google regular update rank of pages on what basis can anyone tell me ?
very interesting is the point of getting pagerank without links AND without content. I have a webpage for more than 7 years now, but I never got backlinks and there was a problem with the links on the start page, so the spiders did never follow any link. Additional there was absolutly NO text on the startpage. And the page title was only: welcome at… At the end after 7 years, the page had a pagerank of 3 (But remember: no spidered content, no backlinks). So I guess also the age of a page should be an important point.
This is one Great Article that i have ever come accross relating to Page rang. Thanks a lot for the Article Yaro…
Hi Yaro,
One thing I would I like to ask is how often and when google update page rank and backlink
This is a great Articl yaro… Do you have professional SEO Package with you?
PR is very importan to SEO,but i still don't know how to get high PR,my website's PR still zero
Very useful article.
Is it true, that PR is less important for SEO than few years ago?
Just a little clarification that Page Rank Patent is not owned by Google. It is owned by a Stanford University.
Page rank is only needed when you are selling links. For PR7 you can get 100$ for 1 link!
While saying you should ignore PR, you should also keep in mind that PR is a good indication of your own SEO and whether you are doing it right or not. (although the results may take 3-6 months to show). I have also noted that some links seem to pass PR over time (say 6 months or so) so you may not get PR passed to you until 6 months after you originally get the link
I'am working on my link popularity but i have only one website with Pagerank 5. I live in Poland, and SEO is very poor
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Great Article although there is some talk about Google scrapping the Pagerank System in the near future due to the shortcomings in the time it takes for them to update the whole system, and Pageranks do not reflect the true popularity of the page , moreso Alexa appears to be a better indication of Page popularity… Just one for some thought…:-)
i have 2 sites with PR 6. In next update google can i get pr 4 or 5 ;/ ?
I read somwhere that traffic and conversion data are the most important in pr but who knows ,they have over 100 different factors
I have lots of links but no PR. When do you guys think it will kick in?
It appears that Google are scrapping Page Rank according to this article:
God knows how Google rate the web sites and also I completely agree with you Yaro apart of all Google calculation that is very strange for some sites to have only few backlinks and very high PR. For instance I've seen sites with only 2 to 3 backlinks and PR5. What kind of calculation is this?
Nice Thanks For Interesting Information about Pagerank….. Helpful For Me….
I wonder if they will tell us what will replace the Pagerank as criterium when they actually do "replace" it.
I have lots of links but no PR. When do you guys think it will kick in?
Thanks for the helpful article! As a beginner, this information is very useful to me. So, tags, content, links have a great effect on the PR.
[…] It never ceases to amaze me how much attention the budding webmaster and blogger gives to PageRank (if you are new to PageRank, read this explanation – PageRank Explained – Keeping SEO Simple). […]
Well, Linkbuilding should never stop, for me this article was very useful, i thank you very much for that.
By the way, Jeremiah, double-clicking on a word is supposed to select that word. And if you don't let go after the second click, you can drag to select the whole sentence or paragraph. It's very handy when you copy and paste a lot.
[…] I'm fairly certain it will calm down and settle like usual. When Google plays with PageRank, all kinds of speculation goes on. It shows despite that fact that we shouldn't pay too much attention to PageRank. […]
…God knows how Google rate the web sites and also I completely agree with you Yaro apart of all Google calculation that is very strange for some sites to have only few backlinks and very high PR.
For instance I've seen sites with only 2 to 3 backlinks and PR5. What kind of calculation is this?…
Nice Article.As a full time developer, this information is exceedingly useful to me.
[…] frowns upon links purchased purely for SEO sake and in most cases affiliate links do not pass on pagerank because of the structure of the links (although some affiliate programs have figured out ways […]
[…] as you like. This sounds interesting in theory, in practice I would wonder how this can affect your PageRank in the long term since Google slapped some bloggers recently by dropping their […]
And i saw sites with only few backlinks and pr 3 and 4 but those sites were very old … and ugly
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Its amazing how simply you explain complex things. Inspiring indeed. SBDC
Thanks for your great advice, Yaro. I run a science website that is slowly growing in popularity — with a page rank of 5 so far — and the insite you provided about Google is useful. I think you're right when you say that it's best to focus on providing great content, and the rest will take care of itself. ~ Norm
PR is important, but is not main indicator to how Google arrives at it's serps. There are many other factors which G puts for weights into.
Thanks, this article really opened my eyes.I really did not know anything about page rank and how to get it.
I do understand what you mean, Anna
I have lots of links but no PR. When do you guys think it will kick in?
Google PageRank is not so important by now but I preffer more than less 🙂
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thanks for the explanation about this Page Rank everybody is talking about.
Hi Yaro,
wonderful post, hope i have learnt the history of Page rank. Absolutely superb explanation. this is the first time that i came across that even keyword plays a vital role in Google Ranking. thanks for the great information, yaro. i am going to try it for increasing my website PR.
I think that pagerank shout be actualized once a month:) everything will be more clear.
i've read a lot of articles on page rank, all of which are convoluted and frustrating. yours makes the most sense. thanks.
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And i saw sites with only few backlinks and pr 3 and 4 but those sites were very old … and ugly
Hi Yaro,
Very useful article , Thanks for share.
Good stuff here. Just trying to get my blog off the ground and am enrolled in your Blog Mastermind program. I've oftened wondered about Page Rank but really never took the time to investigate it. Now that I'm getting my blog started, it's something I've been much more curious about.
Oddly enough, the second day after my blog went live, I was the 11th position in Google search results for my major keywords: naval, officer, and careers. But, my domain name is navalofficercareers.com, so I'm sure that helps tremendously.
Was about time that somebody explains the Pagerank in a professional way, thank you for that!
Doing SEO is getting changed from time to time and every company needs to take that into account.
great post and discussion!!!
I have just added new tool to check all Google DataCenters for PageRank
Pagerank is not everything but it is still important for websites and blogs to get higher pageranks.
the page rank is definitely important but what is shown in the toolbar is just a marketing instrument, isn't it?
pagerank or not pagerank. i rely on good content and usability to improve the conversion rate of my website.
Algorithm of Page Rank already is discontinued
Many of the services of Google also need urgent update, is why Google prefers to buy to other companies of Internet.
That small finder that began many years ago very good, because only era of text, very fast and efficient, that antigüo AltaVista moved my, nowadays became a Giant.
But that has happened with the progress of his so promoted PageRank? By the sight it has not evolved in the same way, as much money and they have not managed to optimize it.
In summary the PageRank de Google or PR simply is a numerical value that it represents the importance that a page Web has in Internet, this value is obtained through the bonds that make other pages Web to your site. (it is a summary of the great roll of his operation) the PR has been that has not evolved as it would wish the user it, many webmasters astute position their Web in the first results search of Google and when we make a search as simple as the task of your primary son of the first results that we obtain is companies doing publicity to their products/services and nor to speak of the swindles that abound by Internet.
What happened with the quality of content? , What happened with the Google that invented an algorithm to benefit the searches from the users? Simply it turned towards the money of the publicity and grew like great company forgetting its roots.
As much it forgot its past that now cannot produce some own project, I buy to YouTube because GoogleVideos did not do competition to him.
Purchase technology of other projects Web because although it is certain that it sees future in them, same Google does not have it developed.
It must have given Google account of its own weakness that now has a Laboratory as they call to him for own projects. But and what has of their essence? To as much to arrived the weakness from the PageRank that now Google penalizes to the sites of high PR that sells links, or the case of the page of a well-known Alemana company that was penalized by unsuitable practices of positioning Web. Acting as Goliat is giving bad reputation him to Google.
To many webmasters is to them beneficial to work with Adsense, but victims of a repression feel, to the being directed by norms imposed by the greatest finder of history.
Now we asked ourselves, Who is making its work bad? Webmasters or the PageRank de Google? Although it is certain that webmasters are many bad, also are many more if they are good, that they include/understand that to give content of quality to the users it is more important that to fill to its pages Web of words that position them in the finders.
What is failing in the PageRank? As lack would claim to my grandmother… him to it to be more human, he is incredible that the heart of the finder, does not have the greater budget of investigation and development.
Hay Competition at this moment? Lamentably next as Yahoo and MSN do not approach which the user wishes and for that reason the Monopoly of Google almost is guaranteed.
Inevitably the users little by little could emigrate to another finder, as flock of doves, if this were more cash in the searches, but at the moment Google does not have competition, although personally I have seen some other finders with very interesting characteristics.
They already say: It does not have bad lasts one hundred years, nor body that resists it and in Internet the years are months…
this is the best article on PR I've read. As a beginning blogger, I was relieved to read your advice about not spending a half hour trying to look up key words (exactly what i do) but doing it naurally instead (figure out what key words people will enter to read my article and look at competitors keywords.
I read your article at a good time. I've been agonizing over how to build viewership. I also appreciate your suggestion to make finding backlinks a daily habit.
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Sure PageRank still counts, large quantities of incoming links will still get any site a long way.
i am still learning about pr and how to advertise the more i read the more i get confused but a few things are made clear here for me and the mist is clearing a little 🙂
Mike, Yes pagerank is updated on a regular basis.
It must have given Google account of its own weakness that now has a Laboratory as they call to him for own projects.
Hi Andy – thanks for the tool link. I'm not so sure how accurate it is but it's the first tool I've found that seems to be trying. I like it's result for this blog too!
It's becoming even more clear that having traffic come from very like niche websites should be the main focus of a link campaign. By doing so you will increase the quality of traffic. The end result will that you will also increase your search engine status.
For those who say the green bar means nothing I believe are lying. If Pagerank increases, so do the amount of webmasters willing to link to you and the amount you can charge for advertising. The end result is more incoming links, traffic, sales, and income. As of course Yaro pointed out.
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Great article! Many things about Page Rank was hard to understand for me but your article makes it clear.
I have been waiting for Google to assign pagerank to one of my new sites for over six months. Thanks for the link to this pagerank tool.
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Nice article with good tips about Google PageRank.
For all the readers from The Netherlands I have translated this article into the Dutch language. Just visit our website and send me an email (with a reference to this blog) to receive your free of charge copy.
This page seems to have a high Page Rank so it adds even more credibility to your advice. Thanks Yaro.
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hi mate, do you have any summarized how google computes pagerank? i have an old website that doesn't have any updates but now on PR 1 while my other website i used to update every time doesn't have PR. thanks and keep up.!
I has no idea that the page rank criteria were so detailed. Thanks for the explanation Yaro.
Hello Yaro. I founded your site at a time that I was ready to host my new Blog. Let me tell you one thing, I think the becomeablogger.com with your 10 videos was the best thing I came across. I read your blog all the time for new tips from you. I can say I consider you my mentor. I love this post about "page rank". I have worked hard on my new blog and got my site ranked from pr0 to a pr4 in 44 days. Thanks for all the great and useful content. I know that everyday is a learning experience and I love to learn more and more about everything possible out there on making money with your blog and online. Have a nice day Yaro!.
I think page rank is becoming irrelavant.. if you don't have great content and great products or services to offer your customers, than your rank won't matter..A buddy of mine created a blog just for the fun of it, and ended up with 23K back-links…
Great writing, i think it gets to the point of great contribution..
And now after ~4 years this page is PR3. Interesting to see SEOMoz used to comment here. Good post. That about explains page rank.
Hi Yaro,
Thanks for educating me on the importance of PageRank and then letting me know to focus on content instead of worrying about it at this stage of my blog game.
I'm pressing on…
Hey Yaro,
Here I am Again,I just received your Email on Page Ranking.
I Rank #1 for pyradom,because I created this word.If you are
the only one with a certain word,I assume you would have to
Rank #1..
This has been my case now for several years.This has been
this way for me even B4 I began to Blog..So if you are the only
one with a certain word and one word only..You do in fact rank
If you Google pyradom you can see for yourself…
I guess I have left Foot Prints every where..
To Our Success,
One of your followers,
Congratulations Yaro for your work of four years ago, from where some informations are still valid today. Many bloggers and owners of websites runs after backlinks, more backlinks for page rank… What it`s the main difference between all these and a pro bloggers e.g.?
One pro will search for quality one way backlinks and more less of them will monitorize these backlinks. I`m not the first who write these things. In January a known SEO expert afirmed in public that in present it`s not more needed to be a SEO expert to obtain a fast indexing in search engines and even to obtain top positions.
I can confirm that theory, in July 13 I started a little project, only with free methods and I obtained the indexing in Google in less than three days and for a second domain name I obtained the 2-7 position in the first page of Google for few targeted keywords in less than 13 days. These things can be done without have SEO skills indeed, anyone can do when he/her know some things and start to apply those. In my blog it can be found more details.
I had a 4/10 PR and it disappeared about a month now to 0/10 and I know i got some really good backlinks and unique content. So I just don't worry about it because I am still getting visitors from Bing and Yahoo.
Great post! I have actually been really getting into all of this SEO stuff since I just started my blog. Thanks for the info…it has really helped!!
@Keron: I have the same experience with my pagerank in Google. Although it dropped only from 4 to 2. I was very worried that I would loose my visitors. Fortunately Bing has picked up my website and now most of the the visitors come from Bing. Notice: I also added more unique content. Unique content is still the most important thing that attracts visitors.
Regards, Juan
It seems to me that when Google is working on PR or BL, they throw huge resources into it. If you keep an eye on GoogleBot spidering of a site, the number of spiders per day, reduces drastically, about a week before the new rankings appear, from between 4 and 8 a day, to only one a day.The strange thing is that although this happened up until 17th July, when sites were re-ranked, and then spidering went back to normal, this weekend, it has gone back to just one spider in 24 hours.
Maybe Google is doing something else with their resources, that we aren't aware of !! Maybe a new ranking system, or BL [backlink] system
People keep saying that PR is not matter, traffic is matter. For some I agree but if you have high PR then google will visit your site often more.
I got PR 3 website and every time I post an article it will inserted into SERP in a matter of seconds.
I was wondering what the fuss was about regarding PR's. Thanks to this post of yours I am now enlightened. My website just got PR 1 as of today and I'm really happy 🙂
I must admit page rank always baffled me. I understand the basic concept of links as a 'vote' but when I installed 'SEO for Firefox' which display various SEO data in the Google sesrch, I found that some sites which weren't great had good PR. I have just ocncentrated on writing and linking with good sites. I launched the blog in May and have a PR of 4, I consider that not a bad effort.
Yaro, thanks for the great info on pagerank. This is a great article for those who want an easy way to learn the basics of what pagerank is, and why it's important.
Maybe the PageRank Prediction tool uses the Google API to get its info. If you click the check link next to the results, you'll see the address points to Google's domain. The PageRank Prediction tool probably looks for the largest value as its basis of the prediction. PR is not matter, traffic is matter. For some I agree but if you have high PR then Google will visit your site often more.
Thanks to Google for bringing me here… Love your explanation… Now I understand PR more…
Hey Yaro, it's been a long time since I've visited your blog, and decided to take another go at your Blog Mastermind program. Explains how I got here (yet again). The problem is that though I've taken your advice, to ignore it and just focus on the variables behind it; it's still pretty hard to let go (maybe because I'm just being stubborn in that sense?). Though there are a lot of things spiraling about in my head, thanks for clearing up the issue on PageRank. It was a little hard to digest the information, but thanks for enlightening me upon this matter (especially through your Blog Mastermind program).
Very useful article.
Is it true, that PR is less important for SEO than few years ago?
I really don't understand why a lot of people focus on PR when it's only 1 or the 200 signals used by google to rank their website. It may be helpful to get a PR so other sites will request a link exchange, but will waste a lot of time. Natural links will come to you if you build great content…
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Crazy that it's almost 5 years since you wrote this and people are still obsessed by Google and PR and how it all comes together. I used to work for an seo firm and PR was something we focused most of our attention on because the clients themselves look at that magic number as a parameter if we were doing our jobs.
[…] They would penalize websites they knew were giving links in exchange for money, by reducing the PageRank of the site selling the links. There was also the possibility that you rankings – and thus […]
Hello Yaro, thanks for the information. I learned lots about page rank from here. Page rank is really important for our sites or blog because it determines or measures how our sites are known by the other people. However, I'm still confused with how and when will the page increases.
Good Information.. about page rank.. thanks Yaro..
Thanks for the very informative article. I'm new to SEO and you explained page rank perfectly. Cheers!


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It's hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week and Christmas is right around the corner. I love holidays as much as the next person, but understand they can be stressful. Extra money is spent on holiday food or gifts, causing financial stress. In addition to that, it's easy to become overwhelmed with the social expectations of friends and family.
To many, the holiday struggles are just a part of life that is dealt with, but to some the struggles are larger than they can handle. So I wanted to take this time to provide everyone with some of the resources available in Grundy County to help you survive the winter and holiday season.
Living in the Midwest, we deal with a variety of weather patterns. Winter with its blizzards, ice and subzero temperatures can be unbearable for those without a home. Grundy County does have a local overnight PADS shelter operated out of various churches in Morris. PADS is operated from October to April.
With winter comes layoffs from many jobs in and around Grundy. Some of these jobs will be regained once spring comes around, but others will not. In any event, Joliet Junior College's Grundy Workforce Center is a great place to get assistance with your employment search or increasing your credentials.
Unfortunately, winter can also bring high electric or gas bills, in addition to the normal rent or mortgage bill.There are several agencies in Grundy which can assist individuals having a difficult time paying their utilities or rent/mortgage. Kendall-Grundy Community Action runs the Illinois low-income energy program, which is referred to as LIHEAP. For those struggling to make a rent or mortgage payment one month, We Care of Grundy County and Catholic Charities may be able to assist through their emergency assistance programs.
With the raise in layoffs and increased utility bills, winter can be a tough time financially. Some families may find they have limited financial resources to spend on holiday food and/or gifts. We Care provides assistance with Thanksgiving and Christmas meals, as well as Christmas gifts for children; however, applications must be completed and returned to We Care by Nov. 16 in order to be considered.
The holidays can also be challenging for individuals struggling with addictions, including food and alcohol addictions. Holidays can also be a struggle for those who are grieving for any reason. There are several organizations in Grundy that offer individual and family counseling.
Contact information for the agencies listed above are available through 941-HELP. 941-HELP is a program of the Community Foundation of Grundy County in conjunction with the Interagency Council of Grundy County.
941-HELP can be accessed a number of ways including: by calling (815) 941-HELP; visiting www.815941help.com; finding us on Facebook; or visiting one of our many card racks or touch screen kiosks throughout the county.
In addition to individual counseling, there are several Blue Christmas events for those grieving this holiday season. Angels of Hope will hold its annual candlelight vigil for those suffering from the physical absence of a child on at 7 p.m. Dec. 6, at Campbell Park in Coal City. A secular Blue Christmas event will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 9, Morris Hospital Whitman Conference Room. For more information, contact Steve at (815) 252-4744.
Morris United Methodist Church's Blue Christmas event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Dec. 10. Minooka United Methodist Church will hold their service at 7 p.m. Dec. 16, and Coal City United Methodist Church's event will be at 6 p.m. Dec. 21. For more information on these events, please contact the individual church.
It has been said Grundy County organizations and residents pride themselves on taking care of their own. This is evident in the number programs available to assist those in need this holiday season. I would encourage anyone looking for assistance this winter, whether it be for utilities, food, prescriptions, counseling or employment to check out 941-HELP for more information on a local organization who can assist with your needs.
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Little known fact: penguins are native to the city of Milan.
Well, ok, not real penguins, but urban ones!
The Milanese street artist Pao is famous for spray-painting adorable little blue penguins all over Milan. The dome-shaped cement blocks, used for keeping cars from driving up on the sidewalk (even though Italians find a way up on them anyway), are transformed into something much cuter!
The penguins have become considered Pao's "classic" street art examples, at least in my mind, but he also does other characters and forms of art like paintings, sculptures, and graffiti murals.
I really enjoy seeing Pao's artwork all over town, and I've even picked up a mini penguin replica for my apartment. I think it's fun and colorful, plus I'm supporting local art!
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Will you fire me?
Better idea - ask about management style, then count the buzzwords. Deduct 10 points for each buzzword, and reject the candidate when the score drops by 50.
In all seriousness though, HR is probably going to ride shotgun over the whole process, and they will most likely provide the article submitter with guidelines (usually that STAR thingy, where you ask questions like "...tell me about a time when you were frustrated with another employee during a project, and how you overcame it to meet the project goals.")
What I would do is not only ask similar questions, but pay very close attention to body language, personality, and suchlike. Be sure to throw in questions that make him/her squirm and think a little, to see how they react. Maybe make him write a script/program/etc or two while you're at it to see how proficient the person is.
I hear that bullshit about "honestly" and "frankly" all the time and most everyone believes it. I say the same words as filler speech to invoke attention at the beginning of a statement or to add a bit of dramatization. It certainly doesn't mean I'm lying. Honestly, when I'm lying, I won't say that shit because of the connotation it has on it. I'll also look you straight in the eyes.
I'll look someone straight in the eyes when telling the truth, and I'll do the same thing while lying to your face...
I try not to do the latter...but in the past, I'd dare say the lies would often sound more heartfelt and honest than the truth did....
Deduct points for every time you hear "Honestly..." or "Frankly...", for you may be sure that after these words you are going to hear the exact opposite of what they mean.
You must be american
Deduct at least 10 points for the phrase "moving forward".
And 15 for "synergistic". 20 for "incentivize". And if you hear "empowerment", you are already dead, vote NO!
Body language is very important.
Aaaggh! This is what I hate so about interviewing. All my education, training, and experience means less than a highly subjective and unreliable measure such as body language. In those kinds of interviews, it's annoying to discover you've been wasting your time talking with someone who doesn't care what you're talking about because they don't know jack about technology. All they've been doing is judging your mannerisms, seeing how old you look, and listening for any hints about your family situation that they're not supposed to consider when making a hiring decision.
You rely on body language, and you will get stuck with the bullshit artists. There are more bullshit artists than there are competent engineers. Think you can tell the different between these two kinds of people? If you don't know the field, you haven't got a chance. Take people who are weak on math and hazy about the odds and rules of poker but who think they're great at reading body language, and see how far they get.
There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions
1. Can you do the job?
2. Will you love the job?
3. Can we tolerate working with you?
Why No. 2 matters? I mean, I can understand why it matters to employee, but why the employer cares?
This really should be:
I agree partially. I hired a tech guy with horrible body language. He was incredibly nervous and made notes the whole time. Still, he turned out a pretty good colleague (with his faults, of course). But I wouldn't hire him as my manager. But then my manager wouldn't be an engineer.
Even better - apply to the position yourself.
You're almost sure to ace that interview!
In answer to your question about "why not promote yourself", allow me to quote your own post
Managers should manage, coders should write code
Some people are comfortable and enjoy managing, others are comfortable and enjoy clacking on a computer.... myself being very much in the latter category. I absolutely can't stand the thought of managing a team and having to deal with interpersonal people problems and office politics, whereas instead I could just do what I love instead.
For some people, the ultimate goal of your work at a location isn't "make as much money as humanly possible", but instead "Enjoy what you do". There literally was an opportunity for me to apply for a management position. I didn't even slightly think about putting in my resume for it.
Why would I want to do a job where I'm going to be miserable? If I can currently feed, clothe, and shelter myself quite comfortably, what incentive do I have to be miserable for almost all of my waking hours for the next 3 or 4 decades, with the only payoff being able to feed, clothe, and shelter myself slightly fancier?
Sorry, I'd rather not spend the best years of my life deliberately making myself miserable.
Managers should manage, coders should write code Some people are comfortable and enjoy managing, others are comfortable and enjoy clacking on a computer.... myself being very much in the latter category. I absolutely can't stand the thought of managing a team and having to deal with interpersonal people problems and office politics, whereas instead I could just do what I love instead.
But maybe you should manage at least once, and see what it's like, before knocking it.
Also... Hiring and interviewing
I couldn't agree more. For 20 years I've watched as good, happy technical people turn into lousy, miserable people by going into management. I saw too many stress-related illnesses, too many divorces, too many kids who didn't know their parents, too many people wasting their lives miserable and robotic. I vowed that I would never become one of them, and since then I've turned down every opportiunity to go into management. That's held back my salary, definitely, but I still make twice what the national a
Let's think about this, if you're good enough to hire your own boss, you're good enough to be that guy, well betas excluded.
Let's think about this. The original question didn't say anything about hiring, just about interviewing.
I strongly suspect that the final hiring decision will come from a senior manager higher up the chain, based ultimately on that senior manager's own judgement. That decision will, however, be informed - in part - by the input he receives from the underlings who participated in the interview process.
And that's a Good Thing, for everyone involved. Senior management needs to know if prospective manag
if somebody asked me to hire my own boss, I'd recommend myself and if not, I'd find another place to work.
Some of us don't want to be managers. I sure don't want my boss's job. I'm a tech and fix stuff. He's a pencil pusher and firewalls against stupid and hostile customers. I couldn't stand to do his job.
BOFH, the whole series. From managing HR to selecting your boss, it's all there.
Reject any management candidate who has job-hopping in their history. If they spent less than 2 years or so in their last three positions and the companies they worked for are still around, odds are good there's a reason behind all that shuffling, and it indicates that said manager never really got to know his or her team that well.
If he says Tony Danza, just get up and walk away.
Ask him who's the boss? If he says you, give him a big thumbs up!
Oh, God. No.
That will sink you both.
A similar strategy I use a lot of times is ask them a question they don't know the answer to. The purpose of the questions isn't to make them look bad, but to gauge their reaction. For example in some interviews I've asked "Can you define and explain the purpose of ASLR and DEP?" for a technical interview. The answer I'm looking for in this case is "I don't know, but I'll find out." But I've gotten people who got flustered, confused, and worst totally lied.
Its an interesting strategy I think to find someone with an open mind who can be honest with themselves. You also want to be prepared to provide the answer, and let them know "I didn't expect you to know that, its something you would learn or blah blah blah." Either way the reaction to tough questions is the most valuable tool I have as interviewer I think.
Geeze not only did you read the article, but you googled the terms. The point of the example was that you want to ask a question the interviewee can reasonably be expected to not know the answer to. OP should probably choose something relevant to the interview he will be conducting. The question I asked was relevant to an interview I had conducted.
Its also an extremely bad idea to ask a question you don't know the answer to, logically you will need to be able to determine when an interviewee lies... Its alw
Those are good questions. I've interviewed 'supervisors' as well in the past and mostly focused on organizational talents.
Ask them how they would handle a project falling behind schedule. Ask them about how they like to assign projects. Ask them about their philosophies on what to do when budgets are reduced. What their position is on overtime. Etc.
To the people who are responding "If it's not you quit" you clearly don't understand the role of a project manager--and how that's completely different fr
"On a scale of one to ten, are you a douchebag?"
What is your management style?
What are your job priorities?
How do you think I can help you?
Take notes, because none of their answers will be truthful.
I disagree - and I'm in the same boat. We've had a few search cycles now, in our 3rd. First two ended due to a lack of qualified candidates.
Of our 8 person department, 2 of us are on the hiring committee. Other department chairs and AVPs make up the balance.
And yes, we need to be on the committee because we know what we do every day, and areas our prior boss both lacked and excelled in. We're hoping to keep the excelling part and get rid of the lacking part.
being part of a search committee is different than being the sole guy responsible for picking your boss.
Except the way we do it the committee does all the interviews, etc. and then sends forward a recommendation... if hte Big Boss agrees, the offer is made. The Big Boss doesn't see anyone we don't pass on to him/her.
He said interview, not hire. It's generally a good policy to get many people involved in the interviewing process.
Don't hire your boss, find a different job! The idea that someone is qualified to hire their own superior is so asinine that it could only come out of a corporate red-tape nightmare so awful it is doomed to an epic fail. If the company had any idea about how to manage whatsoever then they would either have someone higher-up the ladder do the hiring or move someone qualified up from within. Run! Run now! Run fast!
In converse, I'd say if you aren't qualified to interview a potential future manager, you have some serious deficiencies in life skills. This practice is against the status-quo of corporate red tape practices. Also in direct contradiction to your statement, I'd say that always having people higher up the ladder do the interviewing is one of the causes of hiring bad managers, and having direct reports participate in the process is part of a good solution the problem.
Also in direct contradiction to your statement, I'd say that always having people higher up the ladder do the interviewing is one of the causes of hiring bad managers, and having direct reports participate in the process is part of a good solution the problem.
It's good not to just improve the evaluation process, but to start with buy in for the direct reports.
The flip side of that is a dork actually makes it through and proceeds to shit on and/or fire all the interviewers that made him feel uncomfortable. I think the downside also needs to be considered.
This question is impossible to answer truthfully . This really depends on the hiring manager's style noy the supervisor or mid level manager's preference.
This question is impossible to answer truthfully
Snicker. Guess you told us how you'd answer it - if you answered it truthfully.
The pain in the ass about interviews is that nearly everybody is looking to please, and trying their damnedest to give the answer that they think you want to hear.
So you need sort of roundabout ways to get to the questions you *really* want answered. But before you even get that far, you need to figure out what qualities you'd like to see in a boss.
For me at least, the ideal boss is:
1. competent
2. professional
3. willing to shield me from the political BS that is part of his job
4. knows when to leave me alone (most of the time) and when to get on my case (once in a while)
5. understands what I do and the value of it, even if he can't necessarily do it himself
6. knows what I'm better suited to accomplish than he is, and is willing to leave those tasks/decisions to me
There's more, but that covers a good chunk of the basics. That list might suit you, but then again you might have something totally different in mind. The important thing is to have some clue of what you're looking for first. As far getting to know whether or not a potential supervisor has these traits, the best generic way I know of is to ask about prior experience and how he's handled specific scenarios.
This. There are two major schools of thought in management: One is that managers should ride everyone's ass because as soon as the manager leaves their field of view they're going to be playing solitaire and wasting company money, the other is that all they themselves should have to do is relay orders from Up Above and then fire up solitaire themselves.
In reality, management is a logistical position. Their job is to make sure orders get relayed, everyone is cool with it (aka that it is well within their
I'm a software dev, and I could do a decent evaluation for anyone from architect down to data-entry, but I don't know that there's anything in my background or skill set that would mark me as being especially able to evaluate a manager based on their day to day duties.
That being said, what I could look for that's important for my manager to have that affects MY day to day duties - which is going to be the minority of what they do - is awareness of the technical processes, awareness of technical limitations, and a reasonable shot from the hip estimate of costs and risk they think a given task will require.
I have had managers who have asked me to get a remote server with no external access email us when they or their internet connection goes down. I've had folks who don't understand that if I push a change of a major subsystem directly into production after working on it for only a few hours, it could very well take down all customers. In many cases, these folks won't be able to justify or even consider the costs for refactors, or for separate test environments, but it's a little late after they've told their boss's boss they'll hit the deadline and now you're on the hook for it.
Beyond those things, just check to see if his management style gels with how your company like to work. Some folks like teams, some like seclusion. Some managers are hands on, some are hands off. Some like rigid project plans, others prefer desk drive-bys. Make sure that their style is good for your company, and for you.
What mental disability do you have that makes you think you're capable of micro-managing something that you have not comprehension of?
I have multiple personality disorder, and some of my personalities are very good at what you do.
why the fuck aren't YOU being considered for the position?
if you're qualified to interview and evaluate candidates for that position, you yourself must also be qualified -- even more so because you are already an employee there, know the company, its policies, procedures, customers and other workers.....
Maybe the manager will be overseeing multiple departments, and the submitter only represents one department. Also, being good at following instructions is not equivalent to being good at delivering them and managing people. Also, maybe the submitter is; that was never ruled out. Also, maybe the submitter already turned down the position because of the stress, current commitment to work on certain projects, et cetera. There are plenty of reasons why an individual would be in this situation, and most of them
The reason why most teams fails is because of culture issues, not technically issues. The wrong person can destroy a team just as well as a incompetent boss.
I assume the poster's upper management only hires talented people and respects the poster's opinion. I don't see where the poster said they had decision making power or a veto. I assume that their opinion will be consider along with other factors.
One of my worst job experiences was with a highly competent accountant. She managed 14 acc
why the fuck aren't YOU being considered for the position?
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't want to be the boss. Approving time sheets and attending manager meetings and balancing budgets sounds freaking awful.
I'd rather do things than manage them.
"Where do you see yourself in five years?"
"Doin' your wife."
What's out of bounds?"
I hope you have had a bit of training on the legal in's and out's of interviewing. Asking an illegal question in an interview can be a liability to the entire company. e.g.- How old are you, I noticed an accent, are you from Timbucktwo? Do you have any kids?
Depending on which state/province/country you live in the legal rules can be very different, brush up on them so you yourself don't get fired.
"A valuable employee leaves your group. You get a call from an employer verifying period of employment. What do you say?"
Follow up with: "An employee with unsatisfactory performance leaves your group. You get a call from an employer verifying period of employment. What do you say?"
Ask the boss that and if he does not say part of it are manual on what not to do.
Start looking for another job. In my experience having another manager come in to the group is always a disaster. I've never had it go well, and that's WITH new managers who seemed to think I was doing a great job.
Do you understand the acronym "PEBKAC"?
Connery or Moore?
Episodes IV-VI or I-III?
Shirt or skins?
Can I have a raise?
I said "CAN I HAVE A RAISE?"
Ask his position on "undocumented time off"
You might ask how he feels about meaningless, "feel-good" management consultant-theater exercises like having a worker "interview" his own boss-to-be.
It'll be a good indication of how much time you're going to be wasting in meetings, "team-building" exercises, etc.
At most, all that's going to be accomplished by this nonsense is you getting a sense of just how much of a sociopath your new boss is going to be. Maybe you should ask him if he still wets the bed and sets small animals on fire.
I'd ask how they gauge productivity - particularly if you are an odd one out in a team. I'm in a similar situation where I do many things outside of my job role, and without my skills, so many projects and other tasks would have taken way longer if they happened at all. The difficulty though is in justifying my time further up the chain. That's why my manager worked with me to ensure she knows what I'm doing and why, and I know the kind of information she needs from me in order to explain how three days of
Ask some vaguely technical questions. Yes, it's a bit of a trick question. If he starts coming up with elaborate and specific implementation details and other micromanagement, rather than a high-level understanding of the business constraints and risk assessment, who he would delegate to, and what requirements he would communicate, I'd be at least a little bit worried.
If I ask my manager what stance to take with sales data retention, he'll tell me the business policies and IT resource constraints that affec
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3: Profit.
Ask why it would be hard to work for them and demand a meaningful answer if they offer something stupid like "I expect amazing things from my people" - ask them why that's hard to handle and what support they would give you to accomplish that.
Make them be specific in their answers to all questions. If they describe something about themselves, make them give an example from real experience.
Question them about their use of buzzwords and bullshit.
Other co-workers will be interviewing them, too - so ask them to
(Ego, Politics)
How concerned are you with others' perception of you and your actions?
(Self-Confidence, Protection)
How do you handle stress passed down from the higher rungs on the ladder? Do you pass it down the hierarchy or do you act to shield your employees from stress they don't genuinely need?
(Field Sgt. vs. Desk Jockey)
How important is it for a manager to be capable of replacing her/his employees in absence of the employee? Are you willing to fill-in for your employees to the best of your capability?
1) Does the interviewee have a good chance to win in a game of 'Buzzword Bingo'?
2) Describe your management style?
2a) Do you manage upwards or downwards?
3) Describe what you did when 'shit hit the fan in a previous position.
4) Describe what you did when your team excelled in a situation.
5) Describe the hardest thing you have ever had to do as a manager.
One last question you should use to end the interview: "Has everything you've told me been the truth?" but it's
What's out of bounds?
Asking you to interview your future boss....
I sense a HUGE cultural problem in your company...
I've had to interview a prospective boss a few times, and it seldom goes well. All you end up doing is weeding out people who don't interview well. The ones left are either (a) the manager of your dreams, or (b) a total sociopath bent on making your life a living hell, and it's impossible to tell the difference during the actual interview.
There are a lot of good questions here, and all things being equal, one could put together a strategy to single out the best candidate. The problem is, the truly career
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LEWISBURG, Pa. - When Edward Albee writes a play, he "sees and hears" the characters in his mind and waits for them to tell him where his story is going.
He sometimes lives with a play for a year or more, developing and revising many times before committing a story to paper.
"I hear voices of characters of mine who want to be in a play I write," he told an audience at Bucknell University's Weis Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday night. "I have some vague sense of their intention. I write the play to find out why I invented these characters and how they work together."
A three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Albee was honored as the 2010 Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters at Bucknell before his talk on Tuesday. He is the first playwright to receive the award. During the talk, Albee read from three of his plays, sharing with the audience how the voices of his characters were revealed to him. Professor of Theatre Gary Grant then interviewed Albee, who also answered questions about his work from the audience.
Great American playwright
In bestowing the honor on Albee, Bucknell President John Bravman described Albee as one of the greatest American playwrights of his generation.
Albee writes about difficult and sometimes uncomfortable subjects as a way of asking his audiences to examine societal morals, he said. In "The Goat, or Who is Silvia?," for instance, a respectable middle-aged man falls in love with a goat, and the life he knows is ruined.
"I think there are many worse things in the world than falling in love with a goat," Albee said. "There are many ways we lie to ourselves about what we believe and how we behave. I wanted to examine how people feel about their values. When your values are put to the test, how would you behave?"
Albee's first play, "The Zoo Story," was hailed in 1959 as the birth of American absurdist drama, a blend of the traditional and the avant-garde, with Albee considered a successor to American playwrights Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. Originally titled "Peter and Jerry," the play explores themes of isolation, loneliness and social disparity.
"The Zoo Story" was followed by a series of well-received, one-act plays, including "The Death of Bessie Smith," which explores racial discrimination, and "The Sandbox" and "The American Dream," both of which are linked by the theme of death. His first three-act drama, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," is the play for which is he is best known and one of his most controversial.
When its nomination in 1962 for a Pulitzer Prize was not accepted unanimously by the prize committee, two members of the committee resigned. The play, about a couple's turbulent relationship and undeniable devotion to one another, received the Tony Award and New York Drama Critics Circle Award and now is widely considered a classic of American contemporary theater.
Three of Albee's plays have received Pulitzer Prizes: "A Delicate Balance" in 1967, "Seascape" in 1975, and "Three Tall Women" in 1994. "Three Tall Women" also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Albee has also received a Kennedy Center Honor and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996. Following a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" in 2004, the Academy of Achievement-the American Theater Wing presented Albee with a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, recognizing him as America's greatest living playwright. The only other playwright to receive this honor was Arthur Miller.
Deep, emotional conflicts
Albee's characters' deep moral conflicts and sometimes-squirm-inducing actions are fictional with few exceptions, he said. One true scene involved a middle-aged, nearly deaf silent movie actress who the narrator suspects was paid to come to a dinner party but drove guests away with her awkward stories about falling for a gay man.
"That was a true story," he said. "But I never put myself in my plays. I invent characters. I don't know that I have sufficient objectivity about myself."
Albee advised aspiring playwrights at Bucknell to be protective of their work and to resist changes from actors and directors. To accomplish this end, he suggested writing "so precisely that (the actors and directors) really have to be creative to go away from the author's intentions." He disagreed with the notion that actors and directors should change the play on stage in an effort to be creative and described a gifted actor as one who is able to embody a character as it was written by the playwright.
"If a dealer is having a show at a gallery, he does not hang the paintings upside down," Albee said, giving examples of how music and art are performed and displayed as intended by their creators. "Everything is done according to the creator. There's a difference between creation and interpretation."
Weis Award
Bucknell established the annual Janet Weis Fellow in Contemporary Letters in 2002 to honor and recognize individuals who represent the highest level of achievement in the craft of writing within the realms of fiction, nonfiction or biography. Previous recipients have been John Edgar Wideman, David McCullough, Derek Walcott, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Wolfe, Salman Rushdie, John Updike and Toni Morrison.
The Weis Fellowship was established through a grant from the Degenstein Foundation in honor of the late Janet Weis, who was an author, civic leader and philanthropist. Weis also was trustee emerita of the University. Her late husband, Sigfried Weis, was chair of the Bucknell Board of Trustees from 1982 to 1988.
WVIA air dates
Albee's talk and discussion will be broadcast on PBS station WVIA at 7 p.m. Monday, March 28; 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31; and 10 p.m. Saturday, April 2. Check local listings for details.
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March 2003—HIV infection in the Philippines is often described as "low and slow," referring to the low prevalence rate and slow rate of new infections. In this country of 80 million, UNAIDS estimates that only 9,400 are living with HIV/AIDS (end of 2001). But among the country's 500,000 to 1 million commercial sex workers, there are alarmingly high rates of unprotected sex and sexually transmitted infections, and 52 percent of injection drugs users are estimated to have shared syringes in 2000 (UNAIDS/WHO Fact Sheet).
Located in Muntinlupa City in metropolitan Manila, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) is the primary referral center for Filipinos with HIV/AIDS. RITM was founded in 1981 through a grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency. After the first cases of HIV/AIDS in the Philippines were reported in 1984, RITM's HIV/ AIDS Research Program pioneered HIV/AIDS control in the country with clinical research, prevalence, education, and intervention studies, and a multidisciplinary approach to care. It also paved the way for the creation of the Philippines' National AIDS Program and the establishment of AIDS service organizations.
Dr. Rossana Ditangco, who heads the HIV/AIDS Research Program at RITM, attended her first TREAT Asia meeting in Bangkok in September 2002. There are currently less than 40 patients receiving antiretroviral treatment in the Philippines, according to Dr. Ditangco. The government-sponsored health insurance program is small, and antiretroviral treatment remains out of reach for many people with HIV/AIDS. RITM has been able to get discounted antiretrovirals through bulk purchases from the Indian generic manufacturer Cipla, and the treatments are available to those who can afford them.
As an essential part of its research program, RITM maintains a database of demographic and clinical information on Filipinos with HIV/AIDS—an important source of data for medical, social, and behavioral research. Over the years, RITM has amassed research on the natural history of HIV/AIDS among Filipinos, the use of antiretrovirals in the Philippines, cost-effective methods of HIV testing, and the economic impact of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Ditangco hopes that RITM's participation in TREAT Asia will encourage wider use of antiretrovirals by physicians and help lessen the stigma and discrimination that many people with HIV/AIDS face in the Philippines.
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Emotional Kitten Wins Hilltop Stakes With Stretch Drive
BALTIMORE, 05-17-13---Kenneth L. & Sarah Ramsey's Emotional Kitten arrived late on the scene, reaching the front in the last two jumps to win the $100,000 Hilltop Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, the finale on the 13-race Black-Eyed Susan Day card at Pimlico.
Joel Rosario was at the controls as the Wesley Ward trainee beat six rivals in the 1 1/16-mile event contested over the firm turf. This was her third lifetime win and her first stakes victory. Emotional Kitten edged post-time favorite Summer of Fun for the win, with Zenara finishing third.
The winner, who completed the distance in 1:41.98, paid $12.
Wesley Ward (trainer, Emotional Kitten, winner)– "She stumbled out of the gate and grabbed a quarter. She showed a lot of heart. I had this horse in at Churchill and decided to scratch and come here. The farther she goes, the better. We'll go down to that race in Virginia (Grade 3 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs on July 13).
Joel Rosario (jockey, Emotional Kitten, winner)– "She stumbled a little bit out of the gate and broke to the ground. She straightened out but I was so far behind. Hopefully, they were going fast up front so they'd come back to me. Off the final turn, we were steadily moving up and finished as the best horse in the race."
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