Moz Page Authority and MozRank History for Some of My Web Sites (April 2016)

MozRank compares to the previous interesting Google pagerank (a measure of the pages linking to the page, with greater value given to links from high ranking pages). Moz Page Authority is meant to more closely measure the importance of links by considering not just the number but also the quality of the links. This is oversimplified but essentially can be seen as if a page had a high number of links (even from other pages with high numbers of links to them) but those links were not deemed to be high quality the Moz Page Authority would be lower. So things like having links from trusted authority sites would pass on that trusted authority (a bit) to the linked site. And things that are seen as lower quality (could be lots of different things: poor links from that page, text that seems spammy or not of high quality, lots of pages without much content, slow loading site or things like Moz detailed in the Spam Flag Score, etc.) would harm the Moz Page Authority number.

Therefore, the Moz Page Authority number is more important than MozRank. MozRank however is closer Google pagerank.

In the chart below the MozRank is shown inside ( ) after Aug 2014. [] indicate Google PageRank measures. Those without parenthesis are Moz Page Authority divided by 10 (because SEO Moz also decided to scale MozPA up to 100 while Google PageRank tops out at 10 and I already been listing the data listed in the 10 scale the last few years).

Site	Apr 2016	Sep 2015	Aug 2014 (MozRank)	Dec 2013 [GPR]	Oct 2011	Dec 2010
MozPA > 5
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog	5.7 [6.6]	6.4 (6.2)	5.2 (6.0)	5.5 [5]	-	-
Curious Cat Management Blog	6.1 (5.8)	6.0 (6.1)	5.9 (6.0)	6.1 [5]	5.5 [5]	[4]
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5.8 (5.7)	5.6 (6.0)	5.5 (6.0)	5.8 [5]	5.3 [6]	4
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	5.7 (5.9)	5.5 (6.1)	5.5 (6.1)	4 [5.7]	5.3 [4]	[3]
@CuriousCat_com	5.6 (4.3)	5.8 (4.4)	5.8 (4.6)
My Kiva page	5.5 (4.4)	5.8 (5.1)	5.6 (4.7)	5.8 [-]	4.0 [-]	[3]
Curiouscat.com	5.1 (5.8)	4.9 (6.1)	5.0 (6.0)	**	5.6 [4]	[3]
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	5.3 (5.8)	5.1 (5.9)	5.0 (5.9)	4 [5.0]	3 [4.9]	-
John Hunter	5.0 (6.1)	6.2 (6.1)	4.8 (6.1)	5.0 [5]	5.4 [4]	[4]
MozPA > 4
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	4.7 (5.5)	4.6 (5.7)	4.6 (5.6)	3.3 [**]	5.5 [5]	[4]
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4.6 (5.3)	4.8 (5.7)	4.7 (5.6)	4.9 [**]	[4]
Investment Dictionary*	4.5 (5.5)	4.7 (6.0)	4.6 (5.9)	4.8 [**]	5.2 [4]
The Aim Should be the Best Life – Not Work v. Life Balance*	4.5 (5.2)	4.3 (5.3)	new
Living in Singapore	4.4 (5.7)	5.1 (5.8)	4.0 (5.7)	4 [4.1]	3 [4.0]
Curious Cat Gadgets	4.4 (5.6)	4.7 (5.7)	3.9 (5.5)	4.1 [4]
Management Dictionary*	4.4 (5.4)	4.3 (5.6)	4.0 (5.4)	2.6 [**]	5.4 [5]	[4]
Curious Cat Travel Blog	4.3 (5.9)	4.0 (5.8)	New
Living in Malaysia	4.3 (5.7)	5.2 (5.8)	3.9 (5.8)	4.0 [4]	4.1 [3]
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4.3 (5.4)	4.8 (5.6)	3.8 (5.5)	4.1 [4]	4.2 [4]	-	-
Architecture and home design inspiration	4.2 (5.6)	4.5 (5.6)	3.9 (5.5)	4.0 [3]	-	-
Curious Cat Management Comments	4.2 (5.3)	4.2 (5.3)	4.1 (5.0)	3.9 [3]	4.5 [3]
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4.2 (5.2)	4.2 (5.2)	4.1 (4.9)	4.1 [4]	4.7 [3]	[2]
Management Articles*	4.1 (5.5)	4.0 (5.6)	4.1 (5.5)	3.9 [3]
The Future is Engineering*	4.1 (5.2)	4.2 (5.8)	4.3 (5.7)	4.3 [4]
Life and Legacy of William Hunter	4.0 (5.4)	3.9 (5.6)	3.7 (5.5)	4.0 [4]	4.5 [4]	[4]
Management Matters (my book)*	4.0 (5.3)	3.8 (5.6)	3.5 (4.6)	3.8 (5.4)	3.5 [4]	-	-	-
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership*	4.0 (5.4)	4.1 (5.8)	4.1 [5.8]	4.2 [-]	4.7 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	4.0 (5.3)	3.9 (5.3)	3.8 (5.1)	3.9 [3]	3.8 [-]	[3]
Site	May 2015 (MozRank)	Aug 2014 (MozRank)	Dec 2013 [GPR]	Feb 2013	Oct 2011	Dec 2010
MozPA > 3.5
W. Edwards Deming quotes	3.9 (6.5)	3.3 (5.7)	new
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3.9 (5.7)	3.6 (5.8)	3.4 (5.7)	3.2 [3]	-
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3.9 (5.2)	4.0 (5.2)	4.2 (5.2)	4.0 [3]	4.1 [3]
Management and Leadership Quotes	3.8 (5.4)	3.7 (5.8)	3.6 (5.7)	3.7 [4]	5.2 [2]	[2]
Statistics for Experimenters	3.8 (5.3)	3.6 (5.7)	3.7 (5.7)	3.9 [4]	4.5 [3]	[3]
Curious Cat Travel Photos	3.7 (5.2)	3.2 (4.7)	New
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	3.6 (5.3)	3.2 (5.3)	2.9 (5.3)	2.9 [2]	-	-
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer	3.5 (5.2)	3.8 (5.8)	3.9 (5.7)	4.1 [3]	4.7 [4]	[4]
Freelance Lifestyle, Finance and Entrepreneurship Blog	3.5 (5.1)	4.5 (5.2)	new
MozPA > 3
Justin Hunter (my brother)	3.4 (5.1)	3.4 (5.4)	3.3 (4.8)	3.4 [-]	2.9 [2]	[2]
CuriousCat Wordpress	3.4 (3.9)	3.6 (4.4)	3.4 (3.8)	3.5 [1]	[-]
Improving Your Search Engine Ranking Blog	3.3 (5.3)	3.1 (4.1)	New
Management Improvement Resources	3.0 (5.1)	3.1 (5.1)	3.0 (4.7)	3.1 [3]	3.8 [3]	[3]
Johor Bahru Real Estate	3.0 (5.0)	3.0 (5.4)	2.8 (5.3)	3.0 [2]	-
MozPA < 3
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	2.9 (4.8)	4.8 (5.5)	4.8 (5.4)	5.0 [**]	5.0 [5]	[4]
Hexawise.tv	2.4 (5.3)	2.8 (5.4)	2.8 (4.9)	2.8 [2]	-
W. Edwards Deming on Management*	2.0 (4.4)	4.7 (5.5)	4.7 (5.3)	4.9 [**]	4.5 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	1.9 (5.2)	2.0 (5.2)	1.4 (5.1)	1.3 [-]	[-]
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	1.9 (5.0)	2.1 (5.1)	1.5 (4.9)	1.3 [-]	[-]

* internal pages
** new url or old url forwarded (so Google losses track of the page rank for awhile)
- didn't exist yet or google didn't rank it for some reason
[blank] I don't know what the pagerank was, sometimes the site didn't exist yet.

Related: Moz Page Authority for Various Sites (August 2014) - Historic PageRank and MozPageAuthority for Various Sites (December 2013)

Moz Page Authority and MozRank History for Some of My Web Sites (May 2015)

MozRank has stepped into the gap created by Google no longer publishing meaningful pageranks.


MozRank compares to Google's pagerank (a measure of the pages linking to the page, with greater value given to links from high ranking pages). Moz Page Authority is meant to more closely measure the importance of links by considering not just the number but also the quality of the links. This is oversimplified but essentially can be seen as if a page had a high number of links (even from other pages with high numbers of links to them) but those links were not deemed to be high quality the Moz Page Authority would be lower. So things like having links from trusted authority sites would pass on that trusted authority (a bit) to the linked site. And things that are seen as lower quality (could be lots of different things: poor links from that page, text that seems spammy or not of high quality, lots of pages without much content, slow loading site or things like Moz detailed in the Spam Flag Score, etc.) would harm the Moz Page Authority number.

Therefore, I would give priority to the Moz Page Authority number as more valuable. Note while Moz reports page authority as 0 to 100 I divide that number by 10 just to compare it to all the others which are between 0 and 10.

Site	May 2015	Aug 2014 (MozRank)	Dec 2013 [GPR]	Feb 2013	Oct 2011	Dec 2010
MozPA > 5
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog	6.4 (5.6)	5.2 (6.0)	5.5 [5]	5.2 [4]	-	-
John Hunter	5.9 (5.2)	4.8 (6.1)	5.0 [5]	5.3 [5]	5.4 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Management Blog	5.8 (5.3)	5.9 (6.0)	6.1 [5]	6.3 [5]	5.5 [5]	[4]
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5.7 (5.1)	5.5 (6.0)	5.8 [5]	6.1 5	5.3 [6]	4
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	5.5 (5.2)	5.5 (6.1)	4 [5.7]	5.9 [4]	5.3 [4]	[3]
@CuriousCat_com	5.3 (3.5)	5.8 (4.6)
Living in Malaysia	5.0 (5.0)	3.9 (5.8)	4.0 [4]	4.2 [4]	4.1 [3]
MozPA > 4
My Kiva page	4.9 (4.0)	5.6 (4.7)	5.8 [-]	6.2 [-]	4.0 [-]	[3]
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	4.9 (5.0)	5.0 (5.9)	4 [5.0]	4 [5.1]	3 [4.9]	-
Living in Singapore	4.8 (5.0)	4.0 (5.7)	4 [4.1]	4 [4.3]	3 [4.0]
CSS 4 Free	4.7 (5.4)	4.4 (5.4)	4.7 [5]	4.9 [4]	5.4 [4]	[4]
Curiouscat.com	4.7 (5.2)	5.0 (6.0)	**	5.4 [4]	5.6 [4]	[3]
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4.7 (5.0)	3.8 (5.5)	4.1 [4]	4.3 [4]	4.2 [4]	-	-
Curious Cat Gadgets	4.7 (4.9)	3.9 (5.5)	4.1 [4]	4 [4.3]
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4.5 (5.0)	4.7 (5.6)	4.9 [**]	5.0 [4]	[4]
Architecture and home design inspiration	4.4 (4.9)	3.9 (5.5)	4.0 [3]	4.2 [4]	-	-
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	4.4 (4.8)	4.6 (5.6)	3.3 [**]	5.4 [4]	5.5 [5]	[4]
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4.0 (4.9)	4.1 (4.9)	4.1 [4]	4.1 [3]	4.7 [3]	[2]

Site	May 2015 (MozRank)	Aug 2014 (MozRank)	Dec 2013 [GPR]	Feb 2013	Oct 2011	Dec 2010
MozPA > 3.5
Investment Dictionary*	3.9 (5.0)	4.6 (5.9)	4.8 [**]	5.0 [4]	5.2 [4]
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership	3.9 (4.8)	4.1 [5.8]	4.2 [-]	4.5 [-]	4.7 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Management Comments	3.9 (4.8)	4.1 (5.0)	3.9 [3]	4.3 [4]	4.5 [3]
The Future is Engineering*	3.9 (4.3)	4.3 (5.7)	4.3 [4]	4.6 [4]
Management Articles*	3.8 (5.0)	4.1 (5.5)	3.9 [3]	4.3 [4]
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3.8 (4.8)	4.2 (5.2)	4.0 [3]	4.1 [3]	4.1 [3]
Management Matters (my book)*	3.8 (4.7)	3.5 (4.6)	3.8 (5.4)	3.8 [4]	3.5 [4]	-	-	-
Life and Legacy of William Hunter	3.7 (4.9)	3.7 (5.5)	4.0 [4]	4.1 [4]	4.5 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Travel Blog	3.7 (4.9)	New
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3.7 (4.8)	3.8 (5.1)	3.9 [3]	4.0 [3]	3.8 [-]	[3]
Management and Leadership Quotes	3.6 (4.8)	3.6 (5.7)	3.7 [4]	4.0 [4]	5.2 [2]	[2]
Freelance Lifestyle, Finance and Entrepreneurship Blog	3.6 (4.3)	new
Statistics for Experimenters	3.5 (5.0)	3.7 (5.7)	3.9 [4]	3.9 [4]	4.5 [3]	[3]
Management Dictionary*	3.5 (4.6)	4.0 (5.4)	2.6 [**]	5.2 [5]	5.4 [5]	[4]
MozPA > 3
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3.3 (4.9)	3.4 (5.7)	3.4 [3]	3.2 [3]	-
Justin Hunter (my brother)	3.3 (4.9)	3.3 (4.8)	3.4 [-]	3.4 [-]	2.9 [2]	[2]
CuriousCat Wordpress	3.3 (3.9)	3.4 (3.8)	3.5 [1]	3.6 [-]	[-]
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	3.1 (4.3)	3.9 (5.7)	4.1 [3]	4.4 [4]	4.7 [4]	[4]
Improving Your Search Engine Ranking Blog	3.1 (4.1)	New
MozPA < 3
Management Improvement Resources	2.9 (4.8)	3.0 (4.7)	3.1 [3]	3.4 [3]	3.8 [3]	[3]
Curious Cat Travel Photos	2.9 (4.0)	New
Curious Cat Web Directory	2.7 (4.2)	3.1 (5.0)	3.3 [2]	3.6 [4]	4.7 [4]	[3]
Deming's Management Method*	2.5 (3.7)	4.7 (5.3)	4.9 [**]	5.0 [3]	4.5 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2.5 (4.1)	2.9 (5.3)	2.9 [2]	3.0 [2]	-	-
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2.9 (4.2)	2.8 (5.3)	3.0 [2]	3.2 [2]	-
Hexawise.tv	2.4 (4.9)	2.8 (4.9)	2.8 [2]	2.9 [2]	-
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	2.3 (3.6)	4.8 (5.4)	5.0 [**]	5.1 [4]	5.0 [5]	[4]
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	11 (?.)	1.5 (4.9)	1.3 [-]	1.8 [-]	[-]
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	1.4 (3.6)	1.4 (5.1)	1.3 [-]	1.9 [-]	[-]

* internal pages
** new url or old url forwarded (so Google losses track of the page rank for awhile)
- didn't exist yet or google didn't rank it for some reason
[blank] I don't know what the pagerank was, sometimes the site didn't exist yet.

Moz Page Authority is the measure that is equivalent to Google PageRank. So in the chart below the MozRank is shown inside ( ) for Aug 2014. [] indicate Google PageRank measures. Those without parenthesis are Moz Page Authority divided by 10 (because SEO Moz also decided to scale MozPA up to 100 while Google PageRank tops out at 10 and I already been listing the data listed in the 10 scale the last few years).

Related: Moz Page Authority for Various Sites (August 2014) - Historic PageRank and MozPageAuthority for Various Sites (December 2013) - Using Twitter Data to Improve Search Results

Moz Page Authority for Various Sites - Updated August 2014

Google used to update published page rank every 3 months. Now they have only updated it 2 times in 18 months. I am glad Moz stepped up with a frequently updated page link ranking measure (Moz Page Authority). I just find it interesting to watch what happens over time as I have done in previous posts here.

Since Google no longer finds it in their interest to share the even very old data with us (the current data is over 8 months old), I demote Google Page Rank to the lessor measure - and don't include it for Aug 2014 since it hasn't been updated).

Site	Aug 2014 (MozRank)	Dec 2013 [GPR]	Feb 2013	Oct 2011	Dec 2010
MozPA > 5
Curious Cat Management Blog	5.9 (6.0)	6.1 [5]	6.3 [5]	5.5 [5]	[4]
@CuriousCat_com	5.8 (4.6)
My Kiva page	5.6 (4.7)	5.8 [-]	6.2 [-]	4.0 [-]	[3]
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	5.5 (6.1)	4 [5.7]	5.9 [4]	5.3 [4]	[3]
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5.5 (6.0)	5.8 [5]	6.1 5	5.3 [6]	4
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog	5.2 (6.0)	5.5 [5]	5.2 [4]	-	-
Curiouscat.com	5.0 (6.0)	**	5.4 [4]	5.6 [4]	[3]
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	5.0 (5.9)	4 [5.0]	4 [5.1]	3 [4.9]	-
MozPA > 4
John Hunter	4.8 (6.1)	5.0 [5]	5.3 [5]	5.4 [4]	[4]
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	4.8 (5.4)	5.0 [**]	5.1 [4]	5.0 [5]	[4]
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4.7 (5.6)	4.9 [**]	5.0 [4]	[4]
Deming's Management Method*	4.7 (5.3)	4.9 [**]	5.0 [3]	4.5 [4]	[4]
Investment Dictionary*	4.6 (5.9)	4.8 [**]	5.0 [4]	5.2 [4]
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	4.6 (5.6)	3.3 [**]	5.4 [4]	5.5 [5]	[4]
CSS 4 Free	4.4 (5.4)	4.7 [5]	4.9 [4]	5.4 [4]	[4]
The Future is Engineering*	4.3 (5.7)	4.3 [4]	4.6 [4]
Good Process Improvement Practices*	4.2 (5.2)	4.0 [3]	4.1 [3]	4.1 [3]
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership	4.1 [5.8]	4.2 [-]	4.5 [-]	4.7 [4]	[4]
Management Articles*	4.1 (5.5)	3.9 [3]	4.3 [4]
Curious Cat Management Comments	4.1 (5.0)	3.9 [3]	4.3 [4]	4.5 [3]
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4.1 (4.9)	4.1 [4]	4.1 [3]	4.7 [3]	[2]
Living in Singapore	4.0 (5.7)	4 [4.1]	4 [4.3]	3 [4.0]
Management Dictionary*	4.0 (5.4)	2.6 [**]	5.2 [5]	5.4 [5]	[4]

Site	Aug 2014 (MozRank)	Dec 2013 [GPR]	Feb 2013	Oct 2011	Dec 2010
MozPA > 3.5
Living in Malaysia	3.9 (5.8)	4.0 [4]	4.2 [4]	4.1 [3]
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	3.9 (5.7)	4.1 [3]	4.4 [4]	4.7 [4]	[4]
Curious Cat Gadgets	3.9 (5.5)	4.1 [4]	4 [4.3]
Architecture and home design inspiration	3.9 (5.5)	4.0 [3]	4.2 [4]	-	-
Curious Cat Code (programming)	3.8 (5.5)	4.1 [4]	4.3 [4]	4.2 [4]	-	-
Management Matters (my book)*	3.8 (5.4)	3.8 [4]	3.5 [4]	-	-	-
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3.8 (5.1)	3.9 [3]	4.0 [3]	3.8 [-]	[3]
Statistics for Experimenters	3.7 (5.7)	3.9 [4]	3.9 [4]	4.5 [3]	[3]
Life and Legacy of William Hunter	3.7 (5.5)	4.0 [4]	4.1 [4]	4.5 [4]	[4]
externs.com - internship directory	3.7 (5.3)	4.0 [4]	4.4 [4]	5.2 [4]	[4]
Management and Leadership Quotes	3.6 (5.7)	3.7 [4]	4.0 [4]	5.2 [2]	[2]
Hexawise Software Testing Blog	3.6 (4.9)	3.8 [4]	4.0 [3]
MozRank > 3
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3.4 (5.7)	3.4 [3]	3.2 [3]	-
CuriousCat Wordpress	3.4 (3.8)	3.5 [1]	3.6 [-]	[-]
Justin Hunter (my brother)	3.3 (4.8)	3.4 [-]	3.4 [-]	2.9 [2]	[2]
Curious Cat Web Directory	3.1 (5.0)	3.3 [2]	3.6 [4]	4.7 [4]	[3]
Improving Your Search Engine Ranking Blog	3.1 (5.0)	New
Management Improvement Resources	3.0 (4.7)	3.1 [3]	3.4 [3]	3.8 [3]	[3]
MozRank < 3
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2.9 (5.3)	2.9 [2]	3.0 [2]	-	-
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2.8 (5.3)	3.0 [2]	3.2 [2]	-
Hexawise.tv	2.8 (4.9)	2.8 [2]	2.9 [2]	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	1.5 (4.9)	1.3 [-]	1.8 [-]	[-]
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	1.4 (5.1)	1.3 [-]	1.9 [-]	[-]
Curious Cat Travel Blog	New

* internal pages
** new url or old url forwarded (so Google losses track of the page rank for awhile)
- didn't exist yet or google didn't rank it for some reason
[blank] I don't know what the pagerank was, sometimes the site didn't exist yet.

Moz Page Authority is the measure that is equivalent to Google PageRank. So in the chart below the MozRank is shown inside ( ) for Aug 2014. [] indicate Google PageRank measures. Those without parenthesis are Moz Page Authority divided by 10 (because SEO Moz also decided to scale MozPA up to 100 while Google PageRank caps out at ten and I already been listing the data listed in the 10 scale the last few years). Related:

Historic PageRank and MozPageAuthority for Various Sites - Updated December 2013

Google pagerank is a measure of the number and importance of pages that are linking to the page (with the public page rank lowered by Google if they don't like some things the site/page does). One measure obviously has huge limitations for capture the nature or value of any page (for more info see previous post). Even with the limitation I still find it fun to look at the pagerank values - except when they go down for my sites :-(  Now I also track the similar Moz Page Authority and can take some solace if the MozPA goes up :-)
Google is downplaying pagerank and only updated the public rankings twice this year (they update the real page rank that they use themselves in real time). The only reason they updated it now (they say) is because they needed to make another coding change and it was easiest to update the public pagerank view rather than keep the old values during the code update.
** [5.0]

Site	Dec 2013 [MozPA]	Feb 2013	Oct 2011	Dec 2010	Dec 2008
PageRank 5 and MozPA > 4
Curious Cat Management Blog	5 [6.1]	5 [6.3]	5 [5.5]	4	3
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5 [5.8]	5 [6.1]	6 [5.3]	4	5
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog	5 [5.5]	4 [5.2]	-	-	-
John Hunter	5 [5.0]	5 [5.3]	4 [5.4]	4	4
CSS 4 Free	5 [4.7]	4 [4.9]	4 [5.4]	4	5
PageRank 4 and MozPA > 5
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	4 [5.7]	4 [5.9]	4 [5.3]	3	4
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	** [3.3]	4 [5.4]	5 [5.5]	4	3
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	4 [5.0]	4 [5.1]	3 [4.9]	-
PageRank 4 and MozPA > 4
The Future is Engineering*	4 [4.3]	4 [4.6]	4 [4.7]
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	3 [4.1]	4 [4.4]	4 [4.7]	4	3
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4 [4.1]	4 [4.3]	4 [4.2]	-
Curious Cat Gadgets	4 [4.1]	4 [4.3]
Living in Singapore	4 [4.1]	4 [4.3]	3 [4.0]
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4 [4.1]	3 [4.1]	3 [4.7]	2	1
PageRank 4 and MozPA > 3
externs.com - internship directory	4 [4.0]	4 [4.4]	4 [5.2]	4	4
Life and Legacy of William Hunter (my father)	4 [4.0]	4 [4.1]	4 [4.5]	4	4
Living in Malaysia	4 [4.0]	4 [4.2]	3 [4.1]
Statistics for Experimenters	4 [3.9]	4 [3.9]	3 [4.5]	3	4
Hexawise Software Testing Blog	4 [3.8]	3 [4.0]
Management Matters (my book)*	4 [3.8]	4 [3.5]	-	-
Management and Leadership Quotes	4 [3.7]	4 [4.0]	2 [5.2]	2
PageRank 3 and MozRank > 3
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3 [4.0]	3 [4.1]	3 [4.1]
Architecture and home design inspiration	3 [4.0]	4 [4.2]	-
Management Articles*	3 [3.9]	4 [4.3]
Curious Cat Management Comments	3 [3.9]	3 [4.3]	3 [4.5]
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3 [3.9]	3 [4.0]	- [3.8]	3	3
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3 [3.4]	3 [3.2]	-	-	-
Management Improvement Resources	3 [3.1]	3 [3.4]	3 [3.8]	3	3
PageRank 2 and MozRank > 2
Curious Cat Web Directory	2 [3.3]	4 [3.6]	4 [4.7]	3	4
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2 [3.0]	2 [3.2]	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2 [2.9]	2 [3.0]	-	-
Hexawise.tv	2 [2.8]	2 [2.9]	-	-
PageRank 1 and MozRank > 3
CuriousCat Wordpress	1 [3.5]	u [3.6]	-	-	-
urls changed since the old data Google is using, so no pagerank
Curiouscat.com	**	4 [5.4]	4 [5.6]	3	3
Management Dictionary*	** [2.6]	5 [5.2]	5 [5.4]	4	3
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	4 [5.1]	5 [5.0]	4
Deming's Management Method*	** [4.9]	3 [5.0]	4 [4.5]	4
Six Sigma Management Resources*	** [4.9]	4 [5.0]	4
Investment Dictionary*	** [4.8]	4 [5.0]	4 [5.2]
No PageRank
My Kiva page	u [5.8]	u [6.2]	u [4.0]	3
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership***	u [4.2]	u [4.5]	4 [4.7]	4	4
Justin Hunter (my brother)	u [3.4]	u [3.4]	2 [2.9]	2	2
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	u [1.3]	u [1.9]	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	u [1.3]	u [1.8]	-	-	-

* internal pages
** new url, old url forwarded
- didn't exist yet
u unranked
[blank] I don't know what the pagerank was, sometimes the site didn't exist yet.

***I have noticed my high pagerank blog posts can be at PR of 4 for years and then have no page rank at all. Meanwhile MozPA doesn't seem to disappear the authority of those page. The PageRank can often reappear in another update (I even think they may come back in between updates but I might be mistaken).

Related: PageRank Moz PageAuthority for Various Sites (February 2013) - Google Page Rank Updates for November 2012 - Google Toolbar PageRank Update December 2008

Remove Popup Ad Sites From Search Results

My feedback to DuckDuckGo:

I would like to be able to have popup ad sites flagged/removed. 

Maybe let me set no popups (then on the far right column (or something) show the sites you skipped because they are flagged as popup ads so I can click them if I don't like any of the non-user-hostile sites. 

Obviously this means getting a list of popup sites and maintaining it.  Would be a challenge but would great improve search results.  Lots of the big sites now are using popup ads (just ones that get around the users opting out of popup ads on their browser).

I would love it if the other sites (Google, Yahoo, Bing) would do this too, but Google is not likely to unless they are copying one of the others.  I understand sties want to make money by using popup ads even if they know users said don't do it (using browser settings).  This is why all the major sites now use popup ads that circumvent the browser settings).  I don't mind the sites choosing to how readable or customer unfriendly they want to be.  I just wish search engines wouldn't give me results as if popup ads are no a negative that should reduce the suggestion of using a site.

Related:  6 years Later Goolge Acts To Let Me Block Sites I don't want to see from 2011, does anyone else have this missing most of the time now? - Improvement ideas for Google (2006) - Web Search Improvements (2005)

PageRank Updates for August 2012

The pagerank google displays is mainly a fun measure, rather than a measure of much importance. But I still find it fun to look at the pagerank values - except when they go down for my sites :-(  Now I also track the similar MozRank and can take some solace if the MozRank goes up :-)

Pagerank is a value given to the links coming into a web page on a logarithmic scale. So a PR of 2 is 10 times greater than PR 1 and 100 less than PR 4. MozRank is a similar measure, developed by a separate company that is updated much more frequently. See more details on this topic in my previous post: Google PageRank and MozRank of some of my pages (Oct 2011).

Google updates the visible PageRank occasionally (often about every 3 months). The real pagerank Google updates much more frequently (it is only the pagerank shared with the rest of us that is only updated occasionally.

Check the current pagerank on your sites using our related site: Multiple Site PageRank checker.

Site	Aug 2012 [MozRank]	Oct 2011	April 2011	Dec 2010	Dec 2008	July 2008
PageRank 5 and MozRank > 5
Curious Cat Management Blog	5 [5.6]
John Hunter	5 [5.6]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	4
Curiouscat.com	5 [5.6]	4 [5.6]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5 [5.5]	6 [5.3]	6	4	5	5
CSS 4 Free	5 [5.5]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	5
Management Dictionary*	5 [5.3]	5 [5.4]	5	4	3	3
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	5 [4.9]	5 [4.97]	5	4
PageRank 4 and MozRank > 5
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	4 [5.5]	5 [5.5]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	4 [5.5]	4 [5.3]	4	3	4	4
Investment Dictionary*	4 [5.4]	4 [5.2]	4
externs.com - internship directory	4 [5.2]	4 [5.2]	4	4	4	4
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	4 [5.2]	3 [4.9]	3	-
Statistics for Experimenters	4 [5.1]	3 [4.5]	3	4	3	4
The Future is Engineering*	4 [5.2]	4 [4.7]	5	5
Alumni Connections*	4 [5.2]	4 [5.0]	4	4	4	5
Credit Card Tips*	4 [5.1]	4 [4.6]	3
Management and Leadership Quotes	4 [5.1]	2 [5.2]	2	2
Lean Management Resources*	4 [5.0]	4 [5.0]	4	4
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4 [5.0]	4 [5.0]	4
PageRank 4 and MozRank > 4
PDSA Improvement Cycle*	4 [4.8]	4 [4.9]	4
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4 [4.8]	4 [4.2]	0	0
Life and Legacy of William Hunter (my father)	4 [4.8]	4 [4.5]	4	4	4
Curious Cat Gadgets	4 [4.8]	-	-
Living in Singapore	4 [4.7]	3 [4.0]	-
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4 [4.5]	3 [4.7]	2	2	1	3
Mortgage Rate Article*	4 [4.5]	4 [3.8]	4
Curious Cat Web Directory	4 [4.5]	4 [4.7]	**	3	3	4
PageRank 3 and MozRank > 3
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	3 [5.2]	4 [4.7]	5	4	3
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3 [4.8]	-	-	-	-	-
Hexawise Software Testing Blog	3 [4.9]	-	-	-	-
Living in Malaysia	3 [4.8]	3 [4.1]	-
Rocky Mountain National Park photos*	3 [4.8]	4 [4.8]	4	3	-	2
Deming's Management Method*	3 [4.7]	4 [4.5]	4	4
Architecture and home design inspiration	3 [4.6]	-	-
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3 [4.3]	3 [3.8]
Curious Cat Management Comments	3 [4.2]
Management Improvement Resources	3 [4.2]	3 [3.8]	3	3	3
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3 [4.1]	- [3.8]	-		3	3
Best Research University Rankings*	3 [4.1]	3 [3.8]	3	3	4
PageRank 2 and MozRank > 2 (or no MozRank for new pages)
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2 [4.6]	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2 [4.6]	-	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	2 [4.1]	-	-	-	-	-
Parfrey's Glen, Wisconsin Photos	2 [3.7]	2 [3.8]	2	2	-
CuriousCat Wordpress	2 [3.3]	-	-	-	-	-
Justin Hunter (my brother)	2 [4.1]	2 [2.9]	2	2	2
No PageRank
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership*	u [5.2]	4 [4.7]	5	4	4
My Kiva page	u [4.1]	- [4.0]	-			3
Reddit management*	u [4.0]	4 [u]	7	4	0
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	u [3.9] ***		-

* internal pages
** new url, old url forwarded
*** (May 2012) 2 [-]
- didn't exist yet
u unranked
[blank] I don't know what the pagerank was, sometimes the site didn't exist yet.

Related: PageRank Updates for May 2012 - Web Page Authority - Google's Search Results - Should Factors Other Than User Value be Used

Using Twitter Data to Improve Search Results

Doesn't it seem pretty obvious that it would be possible to use Twitter mentions to improve search results?

I understand you would have to deal with people trying to "game the system."  Google seems pretty good at doing this.

The nofollow attribute was suggested by Google as a way of marking untrusted links.  I don't believe the application of that is great, but that was Google's plan.  One weakness is the nofollow name is not the same message as untrusted link.  This might not have mattered to Google originally but when you add confusion unnecessarily you open the door to problems.

Google then added to the problems by declaring paid for links should also be nofollow.  Again Google confusing the issue - if they want paid links noted as paid it is fine for them to say that is what they would like.  And if they want to treat paid links the same as untrusted links that is their option.  I think it is a mistake but it is their option.  Telling people they are suppose to mark links as nofollow when they are paid seems confused and lame to me.

Lately I have heard sources quote Google as saying we can't follow Twitter links because they told us not to.  And those are saying that using the untrusted link text Google asked them to was how Twitter told Google not to follow the links.

So anyway here we are today and there are many ways for a search engine to decide some Twitter accounts are trustworthy and that links from those accounts are an indication of the merit of the site linked to.  Why would you not use this information?  Even if Twitter told you the links were untrustworthy (because they were worried about sanctions Google might impose if they linked to sites Google didn't like without making those links nofollow) that doesn't mean you couldn't use the data from Twitter links to improve results.

Maybe in the decision to use the term nofollow and then set standards for what Google would do around this link Google has put themselves in a position where they can't follow nofollow links and do what they said they would do.  I am not sure about this.  But if they can't take advantage of useful data to make search results better due to their previous mistake of calling a untrusted link nofollow they should correct that failure.

If sites want to tell Google not to follow links that is fine (to preserve server bandwidth or just because they don't like Google or whatever).  But, I believe, most nofollow links are now used to

   1) avoid sanctions by Google
   2) keep "link juice" for the monetary benefit of the site that makes the link nofollow (ironically, that makes the non-nofollow links "follow" links essentially for monetary gain, which somewhat subverts Google's desire to remove monetary incentive from placing links)

It seems foolish to me to not use information that could make search results better.  It seems to me valuable information to make search results better is now clouded by nofollow links.  I certainly would be using that information if it were up to me.  And my guess is you can use a large part of it even if the past decisions mean you can't follow the links (this likely would make the silly use of link shorteners more of an issue - but at least the urls that are actually shown could be used to improve search results).

I am pretty sure Google ignores useful measures hidden in nofollow data.  I woudl guess the other search sites are ignoring it too, but I am not sure.

Related: Viewing Unpersonalized Google Search Results - Google Rank Patent for Delegation Authority Factors