Is Google punishing weblogs aka blogs?
Nowadays I have noticed that Google apparently confers pagerank only to the front page of the blog. All other pages appear to have a rank of zero! I have noticed it across a wide spectrum of blogs, even blogs with very high pageranks. Is Google identifying blogs somehow and punishing the actual blog pages?
For example PhotoMatt.Net has a Google PageRank of 7 out of 10. However his individual blog pages like Braindead Finder Behaviour has a pagerank of 0/10.
It is not a case that a particular page is not popular. Even for his more popular individual pages you will find the same thing.
If the actual blog pages (which contains the comments normally) do not have any pagerank then they cannot confer any. So nofollow or not Google appears to have adopted a nasty strategy to eliminate any value of blogroll, comments and trackbacks.
I think it is a seriously wrong move on many counts.
But first things first. Have you noticed the same? Have you noticed any exceptions to this?
In this case I would love to be wrong.
Looking forward for your thoughts.
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April 13th, 2005 at 5:55 am
I think that’s just an artifact of the tool that you’re using to determine the PageRank. The *visible* PageRank (as seen in Google ToolBar and such) relies on a static dataset that is only updated once every few months.
According to http://www.mcdar.net/q-check/datatool.asp the last ToolBar PR data update was January 1st. Since the article that you mentioned is less than a week old, it wouldn’t appear in the ToolBar PR data.
If you do a Google for “braindead finder behavior”, Matt’s page comes up as the #1 result, so that page does actually have pretty good PageRank.
April 13th, 2005 at 6:14 am
I have seen the same thing. However, it is not just blogs. It is ecommerce sites too (including amazon and my employer, magazines.com).
I think this is just that PageRank is not SiteRank but rather on a per-page basis. I don’t follow this as closely as I used to though.
-Jackson
May 12th, 2005 at 7:00 am
Interesting site - found you through Bloglet.
Anyway, Google can take 4-12 weeks to give a newly created page a PR. It is assigned on a page by page basis, so PR for a generic site’s home page is typically larger than the PR for the rest of the site.
By way of example (and I hope I don’t get accused of comment spam here):
My home page http://www.open.com has a PR 7
My April blog http://www.open.com/blogs/2005_04_01_archives.jsp archives has no PR yet
March blog http://www.open.com/blogs/2005_03_01_archives.jsp has PR 4
All the permalink pages under March have PR of 3, none of the ones in April do yet. I’m guessing they’ll end up with a PR 3 too. I expect that PR will show up for April postings sometime in the next 2 weeks.
FWIW
Phil
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:32 am
Quick update FYI. Still no PR for April
Plus we are moving to http://www.openservice.com and I’ll have to recreate the PR all over again…