MT Herald Regains PageRank 4, Google’s Trust. googleMT Gets PR 3

By Raj | Jan 5, 2009

I’m happy to share with my readers the happy news on this New Year that MT Herald regains Google’s trust which got reflected in the latest Google PageRank update, with a PageRank more, from 3 to 4.

For you people who are not familiar with PageRank technology and Google’s query handling processes, I will have you the PageRank explained in brief. Google assesses the importance of a site or a web page and assigns a rank called PageRank, on a scale of 1 to 9, 1 being the lowest and 9 being the highest depending on the count of links that point to that particular site or web page. Along with PageRank, Google considers 200+ other factors before returning the answers to your query. Though nowadays PageRank has got only an importance of 1 in 200+, it is still considered as a dignity having higher Page Ranks and as a display of having gained Google’s trust among the blogger and webmaster community. For you to have an idea and display of the PageRank of the web pages you visit, install Google toolbar on your browser.

So, for a site or a web page to have a PageRank, it should have links pointing to it elsewhere from the web. With the increase in link count that point to a site or web page, the importance of that page on the web increases, which in turn increases PageRank. The links should be gained in a natural fashion in such a way that if some blogger likes your site and articles, he includes a link with an underlying keyword from his site to the site/page he got attracted. Any other practice such as buying links will be considered as a blackhat SEO (search engine optimization), undermining the basic algorithm of Google.

Google sends scores of traffic to the sites that it trusts the information contained is accurate, dependable and not spam. Traffic is the secret of not getting extinct on the web; hence, to gain Google’s trust is the prime motto of any blogger.

As a newbie, MT Herald got a PageRank of 4 in October 2007 within four months from launch. However, in April-May of 2008, I tried to act over smart (or was ignorant rather about Google’s webmaster guidelines and warnings to not participate in PageRank manipulating link schemes!) by trying to gain links artificially by submitting to cheap directories that accept submissions to include one-way links freely. This might have triggered alarms on Googlebot’s algorithms that MT Herald got degraded to PR3 in July 2008. Sensing the mistakes made, I rectified those mistakes and waited patiently for the results to come in, and with the latest Google dance (as it is called by bloggers and webmasters around the web) on the midnight of December 30, 2008, MTH is back to PR4.

Furthermore, googleMT, the custom-made Google for medical transcriptionists, which searches medicine related sites on priority, was unveiled on November 12, 2008, to the medical transcription community heeding to the suggestions of couple of my medical transcriptionist friends. With this short span of time, it too got a Page Rank of 3. googleMT is functioning smoothly handling vast amount of queries daily.

So this New Year has begun well. These tips on regaining Google’s confidence will surely help if any of you blog. Hope this New Year brings prosperity to you all.

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10 Responses to “MT Herald Regains PageRank 4, Google’s Trust. googleMT Gets PR 3”

Raj on January 24th, 2009, at 9:38 am said:

Your blog hamroawaaz.com too have a good a PR of 3, Rahul. Follow my tips and you’re sure to tread up. Concentrate on quality content, rest will follow.

By the way, what I noticed annoying on your blog was there was no “about” page which lacks intimacy with your readers. A blog is a tool to socialize with your readers. The authors of the articles were “administrator,” “Sangesh,” and “Guest.” No details about these authors which lacks intimacy for any reader. It’s not a newspaper site like “The New York Times” or “The Washington Post” to care a little about all these. Build a good site and you’ll have everything coming on its way. Good luck.

Rahul on January 24th, 2009, at 9:12 am said:

Cool. Congrats on your page rank man. Well, btw, I’m also trying for better page rank for my site as well.

Rahul on January 24th, 2009, at 6:07 pm said:

Thanks Raj, for your personalized attention for my blog. I really appreciate it. I will definitely follow your valued suggestions regarding my blog too. Cheers.

Gennice on January 29th, 2009, at 11:36 am said:

I’m glad you regained PR 4. After all, this blog deserves it. I think you can get even more PR with more regular posting. I really like your posts.

Oh and by the way, Google PageRank is from 0 to 10, 0 lowest, and 10 highest. e.g. Google has PR 10 :D

Raj on January 29th, 2009, at 12:09 pm said:

Thank you Gennice.

I couldn’t hold back myself from the temptation of subscribing to your feed with the tech stuff on your blog, really great, keep writing. Geek at such a young age? After all, age is not a barrier for achieving anything!! Good for me that you ran across my blog.

Gennice on January 29th, 2009, at 1:55 pm said:

I’m glad you like my posts on Gnoted Raj. Thanks for subscribing.
Btw, I subscribed to your blog too… It’s that kind of blog that I really enjoy reading.

Keep up the good work!

Raj on January 29th, 2009, at 3:24 pm said:

Thank you. Even I commented on couple of your posts which got trapped for moderation.

It’s hardly one month since you started your blog, December 30, 2008, if I’m right. So don’t worry about PageRank within such a short time. I noticed a few trackbacks on some of your posts, that’s a good sign of informing Google about the quality of your contents (was wondering how you could make that or if all those blogs that linked to you were also yours!). Keep posting good articles like that and you’re ought to start with a decent PageRank in the next update. Good Luck.

Raj on April 2nd, 2009, at 12:16 pm said:

Back to square one.

With April 2009 Google Page Rank update, I’m back to PageRank 3. Don’t know what went wrong this time. May be because of that I have been commenting on a couple of “dofollow” blogs, but not sure if that is the case again.

Sierra Wills on April 27th, 2009, at 5:47 pm said:

It sounds like you’re creating problems yourself by trying to solve this issue instead of looking at why their is a problem in the first place.

Raj on April 28th, 2009, at 1:06 am said:

You are right dude. I erased the thoughts of treading up the PageRank graph and now let Google decide its course. I’m more concerned about writing for human beings than for search engines now.