Yesterday I had a rather pleasant surprise. While navigating around my blog to check out my latest readers from MyBlogLog I noticed that my page rank bar looked rather fat. I did a double take and sure enough I had been upgraded from the almighty to a page rank 4.
While it isn’t really that important to even bother about page rank, it sure as hell is for credibility amongst other bloggers.
I’m not sure what you guys do when browsing blogs. But when I check out what’s happening in the blogosphere I normally always glimpse in that toolbar to see where they stand in terms of page rank.
When I see a decent enough figure it tells me that this person is credible enough and obviously has a decent blog with decent traffic. Do you do this too, or do you focus more on the content of the blog itself without bothering to look at the little bar (come on, be honest here).
I know it is probably silly, but I have always done that, ever since I learned about page rank and how Google rules the Internet.
This doesn’t mean that I won’t read a blog that hasn’t got any page rank, or even think that they are not worth anything. Far from it actually.
But this little green bar just has that special attention grabbing effect, that coupled with a great headline will make me read on for more.
I wonder whether anybody else has experienced the same on their own blogs?
