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Well I just got in from the Aesop Rock concert here in Vancouver. (it was incredible, by the way)

As I logged on tonight, I noticed that there’s a new pagerank listed for seocracy.com.

Now, I can’t really be bothered about Page Rank, but bear with me here:

My whole site was previously PR 0. My downloads page received a PR 2….that page isnt even fully accessible to the spiders as it requires a login, so clearly the ranking wasnt based on content relevance. Nor is that page receiving any extensive degree of inbound links. It is getting no great push from inner linking amongst other pages in the site, at least not compared with the databases page, which by the way, received a PR 0 still.

What’s weird about that is that the database page has all the elements one would expect to find in a well ranked page. It receives in bound links, it has nice structure, healthy accessible content which is actively updated…….yet it still received PR 0.

Anyways, when it comes to page rank, I say: fuck it. Really. I do. I read so many heated conversations on the topic of pagerank, and what it all means…..and everytime I read about it, I think to myself: “Fuck it…….I have never experienced a dramatic increase/decrease in traffic based on visible pagerank.”

Listen, ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something. The truth is, obsessing over the little grey pagerank icon on your Google toolbar? It’s an unhealthy habit.

It’s……..well……….it’s like masturbation.
It’s self serving. It’s repetitive. And it’s addictive………..
It’s time you kicked the habit.