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)

British Library Makes Over a Million Copyright Free Images Kind-of Available

The British Library lets you view over a million copyright-free images available online.

Well, I was planning on linking to it and showing some photos but they chose to use a service that blocks you from downloading the photos without signing in. Seems like a lame way to provide what could have been open access content so it doesn't seem worthy of linking to in my opinion. Hopefully they will find a better solution soon.

See the Curious Cat creative commons attribution photo feed.

Help Evaluating Server Co-Location Sites

Online security does get a fair amount of attention but it is still paid too little attention. Everyone should be using password manager to create long passwords, unique for them (not duplicating across sign ons) for our online accounts. And when possible using two factor authentication.

Part of the reason we need to be extra careful is to make up for less than ideal security practices at companies. I wrote about something that is similar to how Apple Pay works before they announced: a method to secure your credit card even in the event the store fails to protect their computer systems.

Since most businesses outsource hosting their web sites to network operations centers run by others this is another area that must be addressed. Evaluating co-location hosts is a complex task and companies such as Colocation Authority provide expertise in this area.

The factors in choosing a host for your servers are complex. Essentially you want a reliable connection to the servers either to access by your network (almost certainly tunneled over the internet) or to host content available directly via the internet. Physical security is one important factor but there are many others including redundant power supply, redundant connections to the internet, sensible infrastructure within the operations center and often security code at the network operation center level to aid in blocking things like denial of service attacks.

For even fairly large businesses having expertise to evaluate the best co-location options is difficult and would be expensive. Therefore using specialized experts is wise.

Related: Site Owner Impressed with FBIs Response to The Theft of Their Domain - Don't Lock Your Content Inside a Proprietary System

Hootsuite Scheduled Posts Fails When urls include /@

When adding Tweet via Hootsuite schedule posts the Tweet was schedule without the url. I was trying to add a Medium url (Twitter also used to have /@ in some urls). I guessed the @ symbol was likely the cause of the failure. I did just tiny bit of experimenting and it seems as though Hootsuite removes the link if /@ are included in that order (but more experimenting - or looking at the code used by Hootsuite should be done - I spent less than a minute on it).

Given how popular Medium is I am amazed Hootsuite allows this problem to slip through software testing and use. Maybe Medium recently switched the url or Hootsuite just pushed some new code that broke it.

Luckily you can just remove the @ from the url and then it works (Medium just redirects to the url with the @ in front of the username).

But this is a lame error by Hootsuite. I would imagine it will be fixed quickly - so this post won't make sense anymore (but occasionally big sites fail to do obvious stuff - for example Google still fails to use human readable urls or have even mildly acceptable help).

Related: Coping With Bad Web Page Layouts - Use Urls Not "Click x, Then Click y, Then Click z" Instructions - Bad iTunes Ux and How to Submit a Podcast to iTunes - Poor Web Site User Experience (Ux)

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:

Getting Around Bad Web Page Layouts

The page layouts of some sites seem to be designed by people only viewing sites on huge monitors. Google also seems to test some of their stuff only with super fast and super low latency connections. It isn't so surprising companies that don't have much customer focus just do what looks good in their office (which often isn't what the customer experiences).

Zillow and Trulia offer real estate information and provide maps. Unfortunately they don't bother to design the page layouts for the needs of people without huge monitors. For example, Zillow has 20% of the top of my screen used and then 50% of the right of the screen taken so you have this pretty small window for the content I want to see - the map.

I super easy design that would be done if customer focus was a concern is just allow the right column to be closed by users that don't want that waster their screen. But Zillow doesn't do that.

Given this I found another way to get back your view even if the page is designed to prevent it. Make the browser window very large (much more than your screen). Have the useless right column that you don't have any use for moved off the screen. This is obviously awkward but it works.

Sadly they then center the content for specific housing result so you have a huge amount of white space on the left and the page results scroll off the screen on the right. If they just didn't center it, things would be fine. If you right-click open the link in a new window it works (because the window opens as a normal sized window instead of the super large window created to cope with the badly designed web page).

These are the kind of solutions that only make sense for badly designed sites that are worth your time working around their bad designs. Most of the time I just abandoned such sites. But in those rare cases I actually find the site worth dealing with even with the poor design choices you can sometimes find work arounds in case you are not sitting in the exact conditions of their office (no large monitor, perhaps less awesome eyesight - which goes as people age…).

Another common failing of sites is thinking they can (or should even try) to treat web pages like magazines. So when you use larger fonts (very common for older users - very uncommon for web designers) the display falls apart - Trulia has this failing in the vary bad way of having content fall behind other content so you can't even see it).

Zillow and Trulia are actually pretty useful sites if you are interested in USA real estate. Supposedly Zillow is trying to buy Trulia. In a capitalist society this wouldn't be allowed. I hope it is not. But in a corrupt political society where cash buys votes and regulatory decisions it would be allowed. My guess is it will be allowed.

Related: Poor Web Site User Experience (Ux) for stock market data - Customer Focus and Internet Travel Search - Political and Corporate Cronyism are not Capitalism - 6 years Later Goolge Acts To Let Me Block Sites I don't want to see - snd then Google re-polluted the results :-(

What I Would Include in a Redesigned Twitter Profile

Twitter has rolled out a new profile design with heavy emphasis on photos. It is being rolled out over the next few weeks, my account doesn't have it yet. Follow me on Twitter: curiouscat_com.

The new large banner image is good and the positioning of the Twitter user's avatar in that is good. The old design had the Twitter user's avatar in the middle of the larger photo which wasn't a great design.

The changes are not that large it doesn't seem to me, just some layout tweaking for more image space and a tiny bit of change (the list of followers is not "card" like instead of old tweet stream like) but still minor.

I would provide more space for the user to explain themselves and link to their other web sites, interests etc. I would have a new profile page (in addition to the current tweet stream page) that let the user write few paragraphs about themselves. I would let them add several web links (maybe force it into specific patterns but probably not). If it was forced into a specific pattern you could say let them add, for example):

• web site
• blog
• other Twitter profile (a reasonable number of people have for example, their work Twitter and a personal one)
• YouTube
• Reddit

I would provide interesting view of data that can be gleaned from the Twitter universe on the profile page. I would have a "tag" cloud based on their use of # in their tweet stream (I would also put this tag cloud on their tweet stream page). How about a tag cloud based on those they follow? A tag cloud based on their favorited tweets.

Provide a link to their top 20 retweeted tweets (and such like things top 20 favorites). Provide another view with a decaying over time variable (so new stuff would rise and older stuff drop - like Reddit but much more slowly).

I would let them select tags they are interested in (and based on tags selected suggest other tags and users to follow). I would show links to popular users on specific tags. I would likely and some Klout like ratings (including doing so based on topics).

I would provide interesting data mining information based on users. For example, take the list of people following me, show a list of the top 20 people followed by everyone following me. Show a list like that but tweaked to compensate for overall popularity (so lets say Bill Murray is followed by millions of people and Justin Hunter isn't 5 of my followers following Justin would put Justin ahead of the 15 following Bill). I think there are probably all sorts of cool ways to show interesting stuff based on the data Twitter has.

I would also turn off nofollow on some links (I am not that tied to how this was done, personally I would do it for all links, in tweets, profile etc.) based on algorithms determining the user was popular and should be "trusted" as not spammy. It might make sense to have a couple levels based on how good the algorithm detrained the user to be.

Twitter is stuck in this outdated model based on fear of Google penalizing sites that annoy Google and so Twitter marks all non-Twitter links as "untrusted" (nofollow).

Maybe Twitter is also using nofollow because based on the poor way Google is using nofollow Twitter's pages itself are pushed high by telling Google not to trust any links on Twitter. Google+ started off not telling its Google search people all their links were untrusted. I am not sure, but when I look now it seems like Google+ has started untrusting all links that don't directly aid Google (so internal links to a Google page - like the users Google+ profile are trusted and all other links are said to be untrustworthy). We really need the other search engines to step of their game as Google gets worse and worse about finding good content and instead is focused on finding content that don't run afoul of any Google dictate.

It is this fear of Google that results in sites marking all links not to their sites (or sites with which they have corporate allegiance - so large companies benefit greatly from the aim to provide very few links that are not marked untrusted, as they have large set of corporate sites and large corporate alliances).

There is so much more Twitter could do with profiles and customization they really should be doing much more by now.

Related: Google Falls Victim to Google’s Confusing Dictates, Punishment to Google and Google Users Likely - How Google Could Improve Results (2005, most are still needed) - posts on usability (management blog)

I would also let you delete direct messages. I have idiotic spam DMs and I can't see anyway to delete them.

Site Owner Impressed with FBIs Response to The Theft of Their Domain

My Website Was Stolen By A Hacker. And I Got It Back.

The morning after I found out about the unauthorized transfer, I also called the FBI. I felt silly and dramatic making the phone call, but the reality is that this is an international cyber crime issue, and that’s FBI territory. And this is my business. It’s how I support my family, and it may be a “small matter” in the grand scheme of things, but it is not a small matter to me.

And let me tell you: of all the surprises I’ve had over the past week or so, most surprising of all has been the FBI. They responded immediately, with follow-up phone calls and emails, an in-person interview with two special agents at my own home within 24 hours, and a follow-up visit from two agents yesterday. Beyond that, each and every agent I have interacted with over the past week has been, without fail, compassionate, thoughtful, invested, respectful, and committed to action…in addition to treating me not like a case number, but like a human.

What I expected was to leave a message with a general mailbox and at some point receive a form letter; I certainly did not expect to see an active investigation opened immediately. I’m not going to write more about the investigation because it’s still ongoing (although I did ask for and receive permission to write about this), but I think it’s important to say how absolutely blown away I have been by the FBI’s response.

This is great news. The FBI needs to do a better job of stopping online crime. It is a difficult task, but the damage done is great and the criminals don't seem very concerned with the level of law enforcement effort so far. The task is very challenging and requires international cooperation. We should be funding a great deal more of that and a great deal less spying.

The companies she relied on did not do as well in your review of the situation

And once I reached people who could help me – who could literally make a single phone call or push a single button and return my property to me (or simply freeze it so that it could not be sold or destroyed) – they would not. They hid behind their legal departments and refused to do anything, knowing full well that their inaction would force me to either interact with and pay off a criminal, or lose an essential component of my business.

And hackers know that these companies will do this.

They rely on it.

There is a serious problem when a criminal enterprise not only exists “despite” a company’s policies, but actually thrives as a direct result of that company’s prioritization of their own interests over the security of the clients they allegedly “protect”. Do I understand why companies like HostMonster and GoDaddy are focused on protecting themselves against lawsuits? Of course I do. But the fact is that they not only do not “help” their customers, but actively contribute to creating situations that threaten small businesses and the families that they support.

The solution for this is that we need to support companies that prioritize doing right over those that decide to follow lawyers that could care less about illegal activity and the customers of their companies being defrauded. We need to move our sites to those companies with a history of doing what is right. To this we need to learn about what companies do so, which I am not sure of (Gandi might be a good registrar). Also, of course, use strong password, and use 2 factor-authentication if possible (with all your email account and other accounts - such as your registrar). The person that had their domain stolen believes the initial theft occurred due to a stolen email account (without 2 factor authentication).

Related: It is Refreshing to See Our Government Protecting Us - Bad Security on Government Required RFID e-passports - We Should Build Secure Software Systems

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

Poor Web Site User Experience (Ux)

Financial website universally (at least those I use) do a very poor job at some very simple things. It is confusing for non-professional investors to keep track of what markets are open when.

It is really lame that huge sites (Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, CNN, Marketwatch...) can't easily show what markets are closed. Instead they show changes (which imply changes today) that are often for the previous day. So half an hour before a market opens the display indicates it has returned whatever it returned yesterday. And if the market is closed that day, all day long the display acts as though it has the return it did that last day it was open.

Display on Bloomberg. But actually the Hong Kong market is closed today, bad Ux :-(

This feeble usability failure should have been fixed years ago. Yet as far as I can tell all the sites continue to fail to take sensible steps to make it clear what the real data for today is.

From Marketwatch, you have to look at the graph, see it isn't yet 2 PM in Hong Kong and then deduce the Hong Kong market isn't open today, bad Ux

On a much more minor point, eliminating tiny decimal places is better (as Marketwatch does but Bloomberg doesn't). 100% (99.999% rounded up :-) of users don't want to see the Nikkei is at 14,788.80 it is better to display 14,789. Similarly don't display fractions of a cent for stock quotes.

Related: Bad Visual Controls, Software - Customer Focus and Internet Travel Search - 6 years Later Goolge Acts To Let Me Block Sites I don't want to see (2011, then Google removed this useful feature so again lots of lousy sites clutter the results) - Understanding Technology and Programing is Vital - Gobbledygook (bad password usability)

Blog commenting options

I agree evolving the comments is good. I like the promise of disquss but it haven't gained enough traction. I don't trust a commenting system that exists outside my blog. The unreliability of services others provide isn't acceptable to me (look at how many services Google has abandoned - trusting that things will exist doesn't seem wise).

The ability to comment on a blog and have that comment shared (say via Google+ or Disqus or something) seems like it would be nice (but leave the comment in the blog itself so if Google pulls a Google and shutters their commenting everything isn't lost). It would also be great to be able to track comments for a specific person. I find it so annoying I post some of my comments on an old blogger blog I had so I can find them later, if I wanted.

Comments sparked by: How WordPress Comments are Evolving

Related: Your Online Presence and Social Networks for Managers - John Hunter online

PageRank MozPageAuthority for Various Sites - February 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).  But it does tell you something.  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 Moz Page Authority and can take some solace if the MozPA goes up :-)

I didn't pay much attention at first to the SEO Moz ranking details.  I tried to figure out what they were measuring then gave up because it wasn't clear and figured MozRank must be the equivalent of pagerank.  Well MozRank isn't (I still can't figure out what it is a measure of - maybe primarily just measuring links without factoring in the "authority" the links) but anyway Moz Page Authority is the measure that is equivalent to Google PageRank.  So in the chart below the MozRank is shown inside [ ] for October 2011, while Jan 2013 I updated to MozPA /10 (because SEO Moz also decided to scale MozPA up to 100 while Google PageRank caps out at ten).

Site	Feb 2013 [MozPA]	Oct 2011	April 2011	Dec 2010	Dec 2008	July 2008
PageRank 5 and MozPA > 5
Curious Cat Management Blog	5 [6.3]	5 [5.5]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5 [6.1]	6 [5.3]	6	4	5	5
John Hunter	5 [5.3]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	4
Management Dictionary*	5 [5.2]	5 [5.4]	5	4	3	3
PageRank 4 and MozPA > 5
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	4 [5.9]	4 [5.3]	4	3	4	4
Curiouscat.com	4 [5.4]	4 [5.6]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	4 [5.4]	5 [5.5]	5	4	3	3
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog	4 [5.2]	-	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	4 [5.1]	3 [4.9]	3	-
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4 [4.9]	4 [5.0]	4
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	4 [5.1]	5 [5.0]	5	4
Investment Dictionary*	4 [5.0]	4 [5.2]	4
PageRank 4 and MozPA > 5
CSS 4 Free	4 [4.9]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	5
PDSA Improvement Cycle*	4 [4.9]	4 [4.9]	4
Lean Management Resources*	4 [4.9]	4 [5.0]	4	4
Mortgage Rate Article*	4 [4.7]	4 [3.8]	4
The Future is Engineering*	4 [4.6]	4 [4.7]
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	4 [4.4]	4 [4.7]	5	4	3
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4 [4.3]	4 [4.2]	0	0
Management Articles*	4 [4.3]
Curious Cat Gadgets	4 [4.3]	-	-
externs.com - internship directory	4 [4.4]	4 [5.2]	4	4	4	4
Living in Singapore	4 [4.3]	3 [4.0]	-
Architecture and home design inspiration	4 [4.2]	-	-
Life and Legacy of William Hunter (my father)	4 [4.1]	4 [4.5]	4	4	4
Living in Malaysia	4 [4.2]	3 [4.1]	-
Management and Leadership Quotes	4 [4.0]	2 [5.2]	2	2
Statistics for Experimenters	4 [3.9]	3 [4.5]	3	4	3	4
Curious Cat Web Directory	4 [3.6]	4 [4.7]	**	3	3	4
Management Matter (my book)*	4 [3.5]	-	-	-	-	-
Alumni Connections*	4 [2.6]	4 [5.0]	4	4	4	5
PageRank 3 and MozRank > 3
Deming's Management Method*	3 [5.0]	4 [4.5]	4	4
Credit Card Tips*	3 [4.8]	4 [4.6]	3
Curious Cat Management Comments	3 [4.5]
Rocky Mountain National Park photos*	3 [4.3]	4 [4.8]	4	3	-	2
Multi Site PageRank Checker	3 [4.1]	3 [4.7]	2	2	1	3
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3 [4.1]	3 [4.1]
Hexawise Software Testing Blog	3 [4.0]	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3 [4.0]	- [3.8]	-		3	3
Management Improvement Resources	3 [3.4]	3 [3.8]	3	3	3
Best Research University Rankings*	3 [3.4]	3 [3.8]	3	3	4
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3 [3.2]	-	-	-	-	-
PageRank 2 and MozRank > 2
Parfrey's Glen, Wisconsin Photos	2 [3.6]	2 [3.8]	2	2	-
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2 [3.2]	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2 [3.0]	-	-	-	-	-
Hexawise.tv	2 [2.9]	-	-	-	-	-
No PageRank
My Kiva page	u [6.2]	- [4.0]	-			3
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership***	u [4.5]	4 [4.7]	5	4	4
CuriousCat Wordpress	u [3.6]	-	-	-	-	-
Justin Hunter (my brother)	u [3.4]	2 [2.9]	2	2	2
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	u [1.9]	-	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	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: Google Page Rank Updates for November 2012 - Google and Links - Using Twitter Data to Improve Search Results

Page Rank Updates for November 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	Nov 2012 [MozRank]	Oct 2011	April 2011	Dec 2010	Dec 2008	July 2008
PageRank 5 and MozRank > 5
Curious Cat Management Blog	5 [5.6]
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5 [5.6]	6 [5.3]	6	4	5	5
John Hunter	5 [5.5]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	4
CSS 4 Free	5 [5.5]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	5
Management Dictionary*	5 [5.2]	5 [5.4]	5	4	3	3
Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site*	5 [4.8]	5 [5.0]	5	4
PageRank 4 and MozRank > 5
Curiouscat.com	4 [5.6]	4 [5.6]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	4 [5.4]	5 [5.5]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	4 [5.4]	4 [5.3]	4	3	4	4
Investment Dictionary*	4 [5.3]	4 [5.2]	4
externs.com - internship directory	4 [5.2]	4 [5.2]	4	4	4	4
Management and Leadership Quotes	4 [5.1]	2 [5.2]	2	2
Alumni Connections*	4 [5.1]	4 [5.0]	4	4	4	5
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	4 [5.0]	3 [4.9]	3	-
Credit Card Tips*	4 [5.0]	4 [4.6]	3
Lean Management Resources*	4 [5.0]	4 [5.0]	4	4
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4 [5.0]	4 [4.2]	0	0
Curious Cat Gadgets	4 [5.0]	-	-
PageRank > 4 and MozRank < 5
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4 [4.9]	4 [5.0]	4
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership*	4 [4.9]	4 [4.7]	5	4	4
Living in Malaysia	4 [4.9]	3 [4.1]	-
Statistics for Experimenters	4 [4.8]	3 [4.5]	3	4	3	4
The Future is Engineering*	4 [4.8]	4 [4.7]
Living in Singapore	4 [4.8]	3 [4.0]	-
5	5
PDSA Improvement Cycle*	4 [4.7]	4 [4.9]	4
Curious Cat Web Directory	4 [4.7]	4 [4.7]	**	3	3	4
Architecture and home design inspiration	4 [4.7]	-	-
Life and Legacy of William Hunter (my father)	4 [4.6]	4 [4.5]	4	4	4
Management Matter (my book)*	4 [4.6]	-	-	-	-	-
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4 [4.6]	3 [4.7]	2	2	1	3
Mortgage Rate Article*	4 [4.5]	4 [3.8]	4
Management Articles*	4 [4.4]
PageRank 3 and MozRank > 3
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	3 [4.9]	4 [4.7]	5	4	3
Hexawise Software Testing Blog	3 [4.9]	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	3 [4.8]	-	-	-	-	-
Rocky Mountain National Park photos*	3 [4.8]	4 [4.8]	4	3	-	2
Deming's Management Method*	3 [4.6]	4 [4.5]	4	4
Best Research University Rankings*	3 [4.4]	3 [3.8]	3	3	4
Curious Cat Management Comments	3 [4.1]
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3 [4.1]	- [3.8]	-		3	3
Management Improvement Resources	3 [4.0]	3 [3.8]	3	3	3
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog	3 [3.8]	-	-	-	-	-
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3 [3.8]	3 [4.1]
PageRank 2 and MozRank > 2 (or no MozRank for new pages)
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2 [4.7]	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2 [4.5]	-	-	-	-	-
Justin Hunter (my brother)	2 [4.0]	2 [2.9]	2	2	2
Parfrey's Glen, Wisconsin Photos	2 [3.7]	2 [3.8]	2	2	-
CuriousCat Wordpress	2 [3.1]	-	-	-	-	-
No PageRank
My Kiva page	u [4.0]	- [4.0]	-			3
Hexawise.tv	-	-	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	u [3.6]	-	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	u [3.6]	-	-	-	-	-

* 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.

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

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

PageRank Updates for May 2012

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	May 2012 [MozRank]	Oct 2011	April 2011	Dec 2010	Dec 2008	July 2008
PageRank 5 and MozRank > 5
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5 [5.6]
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections*	5 [5.5]	5 [5.5]	5	4	3	3
John Hunter	5 [5.5]	4 [5.4]	4	4	4	4
Curious Cat Engineering and Science Blog	5 [5.4]	6 [5.3]	6	4	5	5
CSS 4 Free	5 [5.4]	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 [5.1]	5 [4.97]	5	4
PageRank 4 and MozRank > 5
Curiouscat.com	4 [5.6]	4 [5.6]	5	4	3	3
Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog	4 [5.5]	4 [5.3]	4	3	4	4
externs.com - internship directory	4 [5.3]	4 [5.2]	4	4	4	4
Investment Dictionary*	4 [5.3]	4 [5.2]	4
Management and Leadership Quotes	4 [5.2]	2 [5.2]	2	2
Curious Cat Travel Photo Blog	4 [5.1]	3 [4.9]	3	-
Lean Management Resources*	4 [5.1]	4 [5.0]	4	4
Six Sigma Management Resources*	4 [5.0]	4 [5.0]	4
Alumni Connections*	4 [5.2]	4 [5.0]	4	4	4	5
Statistics for Experimenters	4 [5.0]	3 [4.5]	3	4	3	4
The Future is Engineering*	4 [5.0]	4 [4.7]	5	5
Credit Card Tips	4 [5.0]	4 [4.6]	3
Economic Strength Through Technology Leadership*	? [5.0]	4 [4.7]	5	4	4
PageRank 4 and MozRank > 4
PDSA Improvement Cycle*	4 [4.9]	4 [4.9]	4
Life and Legacy of William Hunter (my father)	4 [4.8]	4 [4.5]	4	4	4
Rocky Mountain National Park photos*	4 [4.7]	4 [4.8]	4	3	-	2
Multi Site PageRank Checker	4 [4.7]	3 [4.7]	2	2	1	3
Curious Cat Code (programming)	4 [4.6] **new url	4 [4.2]	0	0
Living in Singapore	4 [4.5]	3 [4.0]	-
Curious Cat Gadgets	4 [4.5]	-	-
Mortgage Rate Article*	4 [4.4]	4 [3.8]	4
Curious Cat Web Directory	4 [4.3]	4 [4.7]	**	3	3	4
Hexawise Software Testing Blog	3 [4.3]	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Management Comments	4 [4.1]
PageRank 3 and MozRank > 3
The Engineer That Made Your Cat a Photographer*	3 [5.0]	4 [4.7]	5	4	3
Deming's Management Method*	3 [4.6]	4 [4.5]	4	4
Living in Malaysia	3 [4.6]	3 [4.1]	-
Architecture and home design inspiration	3 [4.4]	-	-
Good Process Improvement Practices*	3 [4.1]	3 [3.8]
Management Improvement Resources	3 [4.1]	3 [3.8]	3	3	3
Justin Hunter (my brother)	3 [4.0]	2 [2.9]	2	2	2
Curious Cat Comments (this blog)	3 [4.0]	- [3.8]	-		3	3
Best Research University Rankings*	3 [3.97]	3 [3.8]	3	3	4
PageRank 2 and MozRank > 3
Johor Bahru Real Estate	2 [4.2]	-	-
Parfrey's Glen, Wisconsin Photos	2 [3.6]	2 [3.8]	2	2	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations	2 [3.2]	-	-	-	-	-
CuriousCat Wordpress	2 [3.1]	-	-	-	-	-
PageRank 2 and MozRank > 2 (or non MozRank - new pages)
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: France	2 [2.4]	-	-	-	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Australia	2 [-]	-	-
Curious Cat Travel Destinations: Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)	2 [-]	-	-	-	-	-
No PageRank
My Kiva page	u [4.0]	- [4.0]	-			3
Reddit management*	u [4.0]	4 [u]	7	4	0

* 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.
*** Google doesn't say they use a scale of 10 for the logarithmic PageRank. It seems as good a guess and any and is easier to picture so I use that until we have some new evidence.

I have noticed a continued trend over the last 6-12 months for more instances of internal pages having Google Page Rank of 3 and above. For several years this seemed to be greatly reduced, in my experience.

The displayed pagerank 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 can take some solace if the MozRank goes up :-)

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