Hi. I was looking in the search engine (Google) one day and noticed that my personal twitter profile is a PR 4 and my business one has absolutely 0 and they were both started within days of each other. My business one (PR0) has more followers than my personal (PR4) and I rarely tweet on either one of them. So not understanding that at all. I mean, I'm not complaining. Just trying to understand PR. Any ideas?
Apparently some juice from the Twitter homepage filters through to all other pages. I think Twitter pages are nofollow anyway. Those with more knowledge might be able to explain better.
Toolbar PR is just a snapshot of the pages PR at one point in time. It is therefore conceivable that at the time your personal twitter page was assigned PR, you had a high PR follower, and your business twitter page did not. AFAIK, PR flows internally in twitter but not externally. Toolbar PR does not reflect current or real PR of a page, it just shows the assigned PR at the time the snapshot was taken. Hope that helps. Cheers James
Wow I want to thank the second guy for that information. I actually never knew that before, I thought it reflected current PR.
I have actually never heard of "toolbar PR". I was just asking about PR. I don't know much of anything about PR but am attempting to learn more. If you are referring to toolbars that you download for browsers, then I do not download toolbars that didn't originally come with the browser of my choice (don't trust them). My browser's toolbars have always been "Bookmarks" and "Navigation", according to the 'View --> Toolbars' menu. Kind of just lost me on your comment. This makes sense though, I think --> "It is therefore conceivable that at the time your personal twitter page was assigned PR, you had a high PR follower, and your business twitter page did not." I don't know. Still sounds greek to me. And what is real PR? Twitter.com TLD is real PR and individual pages/profiles are not real PR? Is that what you're saying? Is that how PR works?
How do you know what the PR is if you don't have Google's toolbar? Some other site listed you and your PR? How do they know your PR? They did a simulated toolbar PR lookup. I do them all the time, a hundred domains at once. Bompa
"Toolbar PR" just means the PR that Google let you see - the Google toolbar is the most common/convenient means of getting it, so that what's it's known as , but it's the figure that any 3rd party PR checking tool reports. It's called Toolbar PR to differentiate it from the real PageRank that is being used in the algorithm, which, as tattoos says, is weeks, if not months, ahead of the PR you can see.
my Twitter profile @gohewitt has a Google PR 6. I have noticed this number go up as I get more and more incoming links. I would assume this has more to do with it rather than anything else, have you signed up any of the Twitter accounts with any Twitter directories? Most of them are "dofollow" directories and help PR.
i myself dont even bother with my twitter profile PR, in fact i never even noticed what my PR was till just now and see that my profile is also PR4. i signed up some time and didn;t do much except following a few people, only have 5 tweets. just recently i'm focusing on increasing my followers but i never worry about PR on twitter as its good for nothing. you are not getting any PR juice transferred to your site http://twitter.com/seofocused btw, twitter prifiles give you nofollow links to all your tweets but dofollow links from profile to profile links which is how the PR gets transferred form one profile to another
I used the SEO4Firefox or is it SEOFirefox? Well I used that to see my PR, not google toolbar or any toolbar. Then I went to Google and found some sites that show you PR and same results. Since starting this thread, I noticed my business profile is now a PR 3. I don't tweet much. As a matter of fact, I rarely tweet - maybe like 10 times a month if even that. I don't see how people tweet so much. It's quite boring. I just can't get with it. But my personal and business profile have some PR. Guess that's good. *shrugs* I don't engage in link-building activities. So based on observation, I guess it doesn't matter if you tweet a little or tweet a lot and doesn't really matter if you link-build or not. Don't know. I'm not sure if DP being an authoritative site has anything to do with a person getting PR. I've had sites linked in my DP sig and profile for as long as I've been a member here and they had never gotten any PR because of a DP link and those were sites I updated regularly. So now I don't even care. If people want to buy a link in my sig or profile, it's like take it. My sites have received traffic from DP but PR didn't change a bit. So DP not so authoritative like some might think based on my experience with having my sites linked on here in the past. In addition, my business profile on Twitter has some PR but the link I have had attached to it since it was opened is still sitting at 0. I'm just getting to the point of not caring about PR. If I get it, then I get it. If not, then whoopty-do. I still get about 20 UVs per day on average for my PR0 site (mainly from google or yahoo) that's linked to my PR3 Twitter profile. But the PR to my actual biz site hasn't changed just because my Twitter profile its been linked to for the whole time is PR3. *shrugs again* Seems like a complicated topic I don't really care to further learn about. But thanks all who have commented. To answer your question: No. I have not. Don't even know what Twitter directories are. This is what I did, I opened the Twitter accounts last year, and only provided a link to my business Twitter account to my business site (and from my business site to my business Twitter profile) and pretty much abandoned it after that. I did follow companies I like and have followers but that's it. Not other type of linking has occurred. In addition, I have added a link to my personal Twitter profile on my presonal site and that's it. Now if other people are adding my Twitter profiles to their sites well then I don't know about it. But I have only linked my twitter profiles from my own two sites: business to business, personal to personal. I don't even link to my business profile from my personal site nor my personal to my business. I keep them completely separate. Heck my personal Twitter profile isn't even linked to my personal Facebook nor MySpace profile nor is my personal site linked to it. So you know this whole PR thing is just whatever.