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Another three of my websites are now having PageRank 3!
http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fpentaxworld.com&#rÂ
 
 http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fcapturesg.com&#r
http://oy-oy.eu/google/pr/?url=http%3a%2f%2fecmalaysia.com&#r
Some said PageRank is useless nowadays. Is it really useless? Personally I still believe there are useful, as Google is still using PageRank to rate the importance of their indexed sites. There might be more and many websites indexed by Google nowadays, hence PageRank 3 might not mean much…but at least it still give an indicator to webmaster how importance the sites in Google’s eyes. Websites with PageRank 5 or higher definitely mean they are of more importance and will show up more frequently in Google search. 🙂
One thing pagerank is good for is when you are looking for advertisers for a website. The pagerank number is easy to check and easy to understand (even if the average web-user doesn’t understand the significance – or insignificance of it :-)).
One thing you could be doing is to concentrate your pagerank on the root URL, eg:
http://pentaxworld.com/forum/ shows PR2
http://pentaxworld.com/forum/index.php shows PR3
If you did a 301 redirect from “/index.php” to “/”, you could concentrate those two numbers on a single URL. I don’t know if it would be enough for a PR4, but it might just be. You can do that kind of redirect with the .htaccess file, there are lots of how-to-guides on the web.
The same goes for your root page http://pentaxworld.com/ – personally, I would have it 301 redirected right to the forum. Alternately, you could provide a portal to more information than “just” the forum, but as it is now it’s a “doorway page”. This is something that Google (for one) doesn’t really like, it has little unique content and value, but is filled with keywords: http://oy-oy.eu/page/spider/?url=http://pentaxworld.com/ . Google could possibly penalize your site for something like that and it will certainly have trouble getting the page to rank properly. A clean 301 redirect would solve that issue.
hi JohnMu,
Thank you very much for the reply and details! I will try your suggestions. 🙂