Google recently recalculated PR (PageRank) for a lot of websites. Some of my recent blogs benefited from this change; others are still at . Nick at Performancing.com thinks that pagerank is a useless metric. Now I may have been a search engine webmaster at one time, but that was a decade ago. Nick’s experience is much fresher, and I’ll bow to his opinion, with one exception.

Each time my weblogs have increased in PR (from 0), there has been an immediate, essentially permanent increase in traffic. However, the concession I’ll admit to is that most of my sites have a very low daily pageview figure. Together, I am heading towards a substantial metric, but not individually. It’s possible that PR changes only really benefit sites with low traffic. Ask me in a year, and I might know the answer to that firsthand.

Nick, and Martin N via a comment, do give better indicators of a blogs health. And I wholeheartedly agree that PR is not sufficient as an indicator of such, that there are better indicators. As part of my ongoing series about web metrics, I’ll be deciphering more stats in future posts.

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