SEOh My F**cking God!

Hahahahaha Toolbar PageRank

Just doing some random searches tonight, and I stumbled across Search Engine Genie’s most recent PageRank 10 Sites list.

How funny.  There are now 4 URLs with a toolbar PageRank of 10:

• Google
• usa.gov
• universia.esp

And…wait for it….seriously, get this:

• Google’s AdSense page

I’m not kidding.

There are several things that are important to illustrate:

1. According to Google, there are no backlinks to the URL that shows a toolbar PR of 10 (https://www.google.com/adsense/login/en_US/ – nofollowed, obv).

2. According to Yahoo!, there are a very small number of backlinks to that URL.

3. This URL doesn’t show up in Google’s cache — yet it doesn’t have a robots tag instructing engines to noindex or noarchive it.  How the fuck is one of the four most important URLs on the Intanet missing from the largest search engine’s cache?

4. Look at this handy JavaScript cloaking on the page.  That iframe redirect is included, not on-page (tricky move, Google): https://www.google.com/adsense/login-box.js

document.write(’n74iframe style7542width:19em;height:16.4em;42 align7542center42 marginwidth7542042 marginheight7542042 scrolling7542no42 frameborder7542042 id7542awglogin42 name7542awglogin42 src7542https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginBox?service75adsense46amp;ltmpl75login46amp;ifr75true46amp;rm75hide46amp;fpui75346amp;nui751546amp;alwf75true46amp;passive75true46amp;continue75https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fadsense%2Flogin-box-gaiaauth46amp;followup75https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fadsense%2Flogin-box-gaiaauth46amp;hl75en_US427674/iframe76′);

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some fairly similar code on some hacked .edu forums that redirected to pillz sitez.

Without speaking to Google’s business interests, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really find it hard to understand how Adobe’s home page got demoted to a TBPR9; or that Yahoo! is a TBPR9 when Yahoo!’s home page obviously has entirely more backlinks and natural, loyal, willing visitors than the AdSense login page; and especially when the AdSense TBPR10 page is in a sub directory, it uses JavaScript cloaking, and it doesn’t have a link profile worthy to compete in a low-profit affiliate vertical.

But…don’t hate the player, right?  The mouseover on the PageRank button in the Google Toolbar reads:

“PageRank is Google’s measure of the importance of this page”

I’m not going to lie.  If I’m Google, the AdSense page is the second most important page on the web to me, save my homepage.  So maybe we should applaud Google for being transparent in this case.

=george