Oh it is so true. We are often judged by our page rank. It is just wrong. There is so much more to life than PR. I will openly admit that I have friends who are 2's or 3's. An SEO expert from www.godaddy.com recently told me that a PR 6 or above is just about impossible.
He laughed at me when I told him about my PR 5 site that just won't move up. (I am not exaggerating, he did laugh at me) There are other 5's out there who are seriously depressed by the situation. They are asking that I either be moved down to a 4 or that they be moved up to a 6. Sad to say but the world just doesn't work that way. Google makes the decisions and we don't get to know why.
I know that if I should lose my page rank I will also lose most of my friends. If I can keep it above a 4 I will have plenty of friends but if it slips below I will be eating lunch alone again, by myself, lunch for one, solo, just me . . It is indeed a harsh world we live in and few people have time for the 0 to 3's.
When meeting a new blog or blogger try to look beyond the page rank. It is what is inside that counts. Try to think back to a time when you were a 0. How did it make you feel?
Teresa...don't be so hard on yourself...I checked "St. Paul Real Estate" this morning on Google and you are 2. :)
Posted by: Jake Witham | June 12, 2007 at 09:01 AM
I made it to a 2? Cool. :)
Posted by: Teresa Boardman | June 12, 2007 at 09:07 AM
Number 2? Teresa, you have been number 1 on google every time I check from tucson.
Here's the link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=st+paul+real+estate
check it out!
Oh, Yeah, Number 1 : ) T's number 1 in a lot of people's book
Posted by: Dave Smith | June 12, 2007 at 07:22 PM
Thanks Dave. I was a long climb and I can't believe it myself. I get calls from tech companies asking me if I would like to be number one. I tell them that I already am. :)
Posted by: Teresa Boardman | June 13, 2007 at 06:25 AM
I am just a 3 across the board on my blogs and website. I think it will be a while before I move up. Linking is so important and right now only a few know I am out there. I'll keep blogging though. How long was it before you starting getting popular? Since I wasn't there when you started I have no idea when you got famous! :)
Posted by: Jennifer Kirby | June 13, 2007 at 05:40 PM
Great cartoon. I vote that you be moved up to 6. I'm still working on losing my -0-.
Posted by: Kelly Kilpatrick | June 15, 2007 at 03:06 AM
We did not know our page rank until someone told us (they wanted to advertise on our blog). We told him we didn't put much faith in PR & who cares except techies and he said --oh yeah--check your Google visitors. Not knowing that a PR 6 was anything to celebrate, we discovered that our visitors from Google organic search had risen dramatically. Maybe the PR had something to do with it. Not only that, but our text link ads filled up and they raised the ad rate. Hmm.. maybe we should have been paying more attention....nah
Posted by: Joseph Ferrara.sellsius | June 25, 2007 at 11:31 AM
JF - like I said don't judge me by my page rank. :)
Posted by: Teresa Boardman | June 25, 2007 at 01:13 PM
Now Sellsius has listed this as a nominee for one of the funniest real estate blog posts of 2007. I have to agree. I was laughing hardily at this one. I'll keep reading your stuff no matter what your page rank falls (or rises) to.
Posted by: Pensacola Real Estate News | December 16, 2007 at 09:51 PM
I didn't even know what my page rank was until recently, and I didn't really care all that much because I get business off my sites. That's what matters to me.
Hmm, choosing friends based on page rank - how funny! "Don't hate me because I'm beautiful"... "Don't hate me because of my page rank"... where would be be with Pantene and Page Rank!!??!!? Or maybe it's Loreal...... ;-)
Posted by: Ann Cummings | December 17, 2007 at 06:52 AM
Wow! I wish everyone else knew this. I got all excited walking into a conversation where I planned to announce I was #6. I expected silent awe, a cheering crowd, and maybe a huge bottle of champagne. What I got was "That's worthless, It means nothing" I guess bubbly before noon is not a good fantasy anyways...back to the happy world of the blog
Posted by: real estate your opinion | May 09, 2008 at 12:26 PM
Wow! I wish everyone else knew this. I got all excited walking into a conversation where I planned to announce I was #6. I expected silent awe, a cheering crowd, and maybe a huge bottle of champagne. What I got was "That's worthless, It means nothing" I guess bubbly before noon is not a good fantasy anyways...back to the happy world of the blog
Posted by: real estate your opinion | May 09, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Wow! I wish everyone else knew this. I got all excited walking into a conversation where I planned to announce I was #6. I expected silent awe, a cheering crowd, and maybe a huge bottle of champagne. What I got was "That's worthless, It means nothing" I guess bubbly before noon is not a good fantasy anyways...back to the happy world of the blog
Posted by: real estate your opinion | May 09, 2008 at 12:27 PM
Well I missed this the first time around, but it is just as good a year later. Thanks to @tcar for sending me here.
Posted by: Missy Caulk | July 26, 2008 at 05:41 PM