There is a law that is valid on both the internet as on every school yard: how important you are depends on who your friends are. Nowadays on the internet, your importance is expressed as PageRank. PageRank is a number between 0 and 10, calculated in a very secret way, but based on the amount of links to your site and the PageRank of the sites linking to you. If you own a site with a high PageRank (8+) you can earn a lot of money by simply putting a link to other sites on your homepage.
Knowing this, I wondered how popular I am. What is the PageRank of this site, where on the internet popularity scale am I. I looked it up, and found that I am exactly in the middle; I have a PageRank of 5/10. I am not the most popular guy on the school yard, but neither a looser without any friends.
This made me wonder what I had to do to get a 6. What kind of sites have a 6? And a 7? So I visited some sites from my bookmarks and made a short list with example sites for each PageRank:
| PageRank | Example site |
|---|---|
| 10 | |
| 9 | SlashDot |
| 8 | CSS Zen Garden |
| 7 | Zeldman |
| 6 | Weblog about Markup & Style |
| 5 | Brain Tags |
| 4 | Fimcap |
| 3 | Familie Naafs - Van Dijk |
| 2 | KJG Roundabout |
| 1 | Startpagina voor Jong Nederland |
| 0 | Jong Nederland Harmelen |
It was quite difficult to find sites with PageRank 1 and 2. Most sites I found have a PageRank of 3 and 4. Most popular sites reside at PageRank 8. Jong Nederland Harmelen obviously did something very wrong, since Google punishes them hard for not letting the GoogleBot spider their site.
