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title: "Google PageRank navel-gazing"
date: 2003-08-30
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2003"
    url: "/tag/2003.md"
---

# Google PageRank navel-gazing

A few days ago [John Robb complained](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153511/http://jrobb.mindplex.org/2003/08/26.html#a3578) about his Google PageRank being zero after he moved to his new domain. I was in the same situation, but this morning I noticed my weblog has a new Google PageRank of 5/10. I see John Robb’s PageRank is back too (6/10). Another new blogger who had 0/10 PageRank up till today is [Adam Bosworth](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153511/http://www.adambosworth.net/) (a former Microsoft executive) and today I see his rank is 6/10.

Some background: about 3 weeks ago I moved to my new domain name and accordingly my Google PageRank dropped to zero. Actually, I only had a ranking of 1 or 2 before the move. I’ve only been officially blogging since April this year (I originally bought Radio Userland in 2002 and played around with it, but I didn’t seriously start blogging till a year later when I had to choose whether to renew my Radio Userland license). Anyway, up till now my Google PageRank was minimal. But I am pleased to see it is now 5/10. Sure this is the kind of weblog vanity that [Andrew Orlowski](https://web.archive.org/web/20040310153511/http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30621.html) would snigger at. Hey what can I say – guilty as charged 🙂

I also noticed that my old domain, on Radio Userland’s server, also now has a 5/10 PageRank. So that must mean Google has worked out how to factor in re-directs when calculating PageRank, or has found some other way to synch old and new domain names. Nice one Google!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/2003/08/30.html#a105))*