Low Google PageRank, higher Adsense income
April 6, 2009
While we’re busy on April 1 playing a prank on our PMT members about paid posting on the PMT Forum, Google was apparently busy too updating the PageRank of websites.
For the uninitiated, Google PageRank (PR) is a numerical figure from 0 to 10 that supposedly shows the relative importance of a site. A site with a PR of 10 is considered “more important” than a site with a PR of 2.
In the Philippines, popular sites with a high PR include the online version of newspapers Inquirer.net, PhilStar.com, and ManilaTimes.net — all with PageRank of 7.
Filipino blogs with a high PR include FilipinoLibrarian.blogspot.com (PR 6) and BryanBoy.com (PR 5).
As for PinoyMoneyTalk.com, well, we have a head-turning, jaw-dropping, and mind-twisting PR of zero (0). Yup, zero as in zilch, nil, nada. Prior to the update, our PR was 2. We’re not alone, though. Macuha.com shared that his site dropped from PR 4 to 3 while Selaplana.com, like us, dropped from PR 2 to 0.
We don’t know yet what the consequences of having zero PageRank would be. Until today, we still rank high on the SERPs (search engine results pages) in some of our keywords such as “mutual funds Philippines” and “stock trading Philippines.”
More importantly, income from Google Adsense is recovering. After seeing our Adsense income drop by 50-60% in March 2009, it is now back to its normal level. Actually, during the first 3 days of April 2009, we experienced high daily incomes never seen in the past recent months.
Even though our site has low PR, as long as our online income is not affected, we’re not complaining. If we are to choose between high PageRank and high income, we’ll definitely choose the latter.
What about you?
May 23rd, 2009 at %I:%M %p
guys, can any body discuss me or tell me how many backlinks do i need to have to get atleast PR3?
June 18th, 2009 at %I:%M %p
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July 1st, 2009 at %I:%M %p
this is so true james, mine also suffered from pagerank of 4 then 2 now 0, but the income from adsense is increasing. strange huh?!
July 31st, 2009 at %I:%M %p
This is true, my site all about auto zone was formerly PR3 last 2008, then came January 2009 it became PR2, but sad to say it became PR0 to date, but i have no regret because as what you also discuss, eventhough I have a PR0 site it still is my good source of income. It still performes well in adsense.