Making sense of Twitter and Google Pageranks

Why is the Google Pagerank for my Twitter profile the same as Lance Armstrong’s?

So I have a bit of an obsessive personality. One of my latest obsessions is Twitter and another that I’ve for a much longer time is Google Pagerank.

Over the years I’ve found that there are 3 good rules to continuing to see your Pagerank go up:

1. Create good content consistently over time with an eye to using thoughtful keywords
2. Always be on the lookout for new high quality inbound links, and
3. Send Google blogger Matt Cutts a nice bottle of Scotch at Christmas

This is of course a very simple formula and there’s a lot going unsaid in my rules, except for the “Matt Cutts Scotch” rule which is really straightforward.

But here I am with my new Twitter obsession and I’m finding myself at a complete loss as to how Google is determining the ranking score for individual user pages. I’m assuming that the “send Matt Cutts Scotch” rule isn’t applying so I’m looking to the first two and namely the second one, because inbound quality links is a very powerful factor in a page’s Google rank.

So let’s take my Twitter page to begin with at http:www.twitter.com/kgrandia . I have 5 links back to my Twitter account and a Google pagerank of 5 out of 10, I have 1,500 followers and I’m following 1,100 people. I post new “Tweets” on Twitter about 5 or 6 times a day.

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Do you like Google’s new favicon?

I thought something was looking a little different online today.

I don’t know about you, but I’m on Google pretty much 24/7. So I am wondering what you think about Google’s new favicon?

According to Google the backstory is that it was inspired by a design submitted to them by a computer science student named André Resende, at the University of Campinas in Brazil. If that’s the case, then I think it’s a great new design and I’m happy to look at it. Now if it was in fact designed by a bunch of social psychologists to make me click on more Google ads, then…

Thoughts? Like it? Hate it? Don’t care? Leave a comment telling me what you think.