Web 2.0 Websites and the Pagerank Myth

How often do you see something along the lines of "Squidoo has a pagerank 8. Create a lens to get high quality backlinks." Actually, it doesn’t have to be Squidoo, it could be Hubpages or USFreeAds. I’ve heard it said about a lot of websites.

There are a lot of reasons for using Squidoo which I’ll write about later (with my extensive experience ;)) However, don’t think that you are going to get a PR8 backlink without any effort.

On Squidoo you can take a look at the top lenses. These lenses have had a whole bunch of work put into them (not to mention the effort put into the owners’ other lenses and profiles) and they rank at either PR4 or PR5 - good but not a PR8. The front page gives PR8 links and there are some deep links within it that also have a good pagerank but I’m afraid your newly created lens has a PR0.

So to summarize, if you think that PR8 links are free to every Tom, Dick and Harry on the internet, well, they’re not. And that is a good thing.

Lens	Pagerank	Traffic
http://www.squidoo.com/lcd-televisions	4	1,885
http://www.squidoo.com/robert_pattinson	4	6,157
http://www.squidoo.com/workathomewithsquidoo	5	881
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-twitterdrive-for-charity	5	312
http://www.squidoo.com/Panini-sandwich-recipes	5	7,635

Pagerank is a trademark owned by Google.

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