The low down on PR
This whole new internet technology thing is really all just smoke and mirrors if you think about it. There is a huge market out here that is driven by things like google or alexa page ranking. Just what are these ranks and how do you get them anyway? Well the google pr makes good sence. Based on content to keyword ratios as well as site structure, in bound links, pages without error or warnings and other sensible things like that.
What I find overly amuzing about google pr though is that they have 66 errors on the main page alone. I have found there to be 18 as of now on asylum et and as time progresses those will disapear as well. We only have a pr of 3 though and google has a pr of 10. Now if it were any other business would voting or participating in your own things like that be against regulations.
I have great apretiation for what google does though. They are working hard to clean things up. I have noticed others though that claim to be something special like alexa. I am less than impressed with them though. Searching for relevent content is a chore. This site has a ranking with them of like 936,945 or something like that. Google is at number 3 with them. I guess the way they say it is setup over there is it is traffic based. Well that is not entirely true.
What is very unfortunate here is in a place that companies strive to stay on top we have alexa’s out there saying oh no they are no good cuase we have not heard of them yet or whatever. Well that wold almost be fine but here is the catch. Our alexa ranking will never go up much more than maybe 10 points wich I might add keeps us out of a higher earning braket and doesnt even allow us within sight of it for that matter and do yo wanna know just how they deside how much traffic you get?
You have to have an alexa toolbar in your browser as you visit a site otherwise you dont report to them and they never know of the site. That is just lame. That is like saying well Fred you have a subaru so you can not shop at Sears because to shop at sears you need to have a purple subaru with yellow polka dotted dice hanging from your mirror.
This is the furthest method from accurate that we have seen yet. Even quantserve has a more appropriate way of detecting these things wich I do not overly aprove of having to add javascript to my site but at least the webmaster has some control over things.
Overall if you have one of these toolbars great. If not you would be doing myself and others like me a great justice. I still would hope that people choose to disregard these types of things as for making there mind up about a site though due to the fact that we are driving a market into unreachable places for the average person. I have more faith in people than that though.
Here is something you may find amuzing to. This whole pr thing. You want to know just how accurate it is? As of right this moment Asylum ET is rated 987,628 on alexa. Now here comes the part that is going to really get you. My home development site, a mirror of this site wich I will add is not a public server. Guess what it’s alexa rank is. I bet you don’t even come close. It has a ranking of 1’256 that is a difference of 986’372 and the kicker there is this. With Alexa pr the lower the number the better so tell me just how accurate and stable is this internet world we all relly on so much.