Contest Blogger benefits from the PageRank update

PageRank is a system used by Google to help measure the popularity of websites using a ranking of 1 to 10, and generally the higher your site’s PageRank, the more credibility Google assigns your website.  A website with a PageRank of 2 likely has more backlinks from other sites, more daily visitors, and more valuable content in Google’s eyes than a website with a PageRank of 1.

Google generally updates its PageRank toolbar once every three or four months, and it looks like they’ve done a fresh update this week.  The blogosphere is abuzz about PageRank going up or going down.  Although it doesn’t play much of a role in how much traffic your site gets, webmasters can get very upset if their PageRank is lowered and very excited if it goes up, even by one point.  Getting to a PageRank above four is quite difficult, and sites with PageRanks of ten can probably be counted on your two hands.

We’re happy to report that it looks like Contest Blogger’s PageRank went back up to a 5 again, after dipping to a 4 after the last update.  We’re not quite sure why it went up again, although we do appreciate all of the Contest Blogger fans who have linked back to our homepage to tell their readers about our awesome forums.  Our PageRank may go up or down in coming months, of course, but we’re glad to see that Google regards us as a trustworthy, authority website for finding contests, sweepstakes and free stuff.

Hey, have you linked back to Contest Blogger yet?  If not, check out how you can win $100 by pointing a link to our homepage.  We’re drawing our next $100 winner this week, so you still have time to get your name in the hat!