SEO Discovery - Not Ranked III (Part 2 of 4)

Having found that all the pages of other sites of which I am a member of are also not ranked, I experimented a little further. I did a search on Google for "very best business opportunity", and came up with the following:


Url: http://www.wsicorporate.com/article/The_very_best_work_from_home_business
Page Rank: Not ranked

Url: http://www.myworldplusbiz.com/2009/03/15/the-very-best-internet-home-business-opportunity/
Page Rank: Not ranked

Url: http://www.businessopportunitiesandideas.co.uk/454/the-top-100-business-blogs
Page Rank: 4

Url: http://www.home-based-business-world.com/
Page Rank: 3

Url: http://www.amazines.com/Business_Opportunities/article_detail.cfm/831264?articleid=831264
Page Rank: Not ranked

Url: http://www.makeyourich.com.au/the-very-best-business-opportunity-home-based-business.html
Page Rank: Not ranked

Url: http://www.homenetpro.com/home-based-business.html
Page Rank: 3

Url: http://www.best-home-business-ideas.net/
Page Rank: 4

Url: http://www.personaltouchproducts.com/
Page Rank: 3

Url: http://www.ukdropshop.com/
Page Rank: 3


For the top 10 results, 4 of those results were not ranked. Of the 6 that were ranked, 4 were home pages. All ranked pages were ranked 3 or 4. The search yielded a respectable 55,000,000 results.

It seems that page rank is not that big a factor after all. I am quite sure it still plays a part, but how big a part? It is also interesting to note that of the 6 pages ranked, all were ranked either 3 or 4.

And for all the pages which were not ranked, I checked the main page to see the its page ranking. The results are:


Url: http://www.wsicorporate.com/
Page Rank: 6

Url: http://www.myworldplusbiz.com/
Page Rank: 2

Url: http://www.amazines.com/
Page Rank: 4

Url: http://www.makeyourich.com.au/
Page Rank: 2


Although I will need more data to be more sure, it certainly is starting to look like a high ranking in the engines is really about delivering relevant results, with the page's page rank and the page's domain's page rank playing a small part.

It does make sense since Google is in the business of providing the most relevant search result possible. And maybe page rank is a lot of smoke and mirrors, to distract the people trying to game the system.