I have more blogs than I can count but basically, there are 3 I really work with. One of them is an online diary where I address the issues of my life as well as blog stats. For over a year now I have blogged there about a blogging method I dreamed up. It isn’t perfect but it’s a method I could do all that time. The best part about it was I could measure improvement. This past week I altered the acronym I used to follow and replaced it with a new one. I’m a right-brained hippie so I need acronyms to remind me what I am doing half the time.

The new method is going great. To summarize, the acronym is ARC and it stands for: Analytics, Relevancy, and Conversion. These words have meaning for me in my goals of blogging. I never meant to make it a universal.

That’s where you come in. You are an individual blogger but have you defined your individual goals? Perhaps you want to make money each month as I do. Others out there may want to integrate more with friends in social media. Maybe you want to promote your company blog or website? The point is, there is no universal ranking system or method that can determine the importance of a website. You should, based on your blog goals and needs, develop a method that points you in the direction of success.

A lot of bloggers have the psychology that a Google PageRank toolbar determines a blog’s importance. That is a wide misconception. Google itself in fact is sending the message that PageRank should be ignored. Maybe we as bloggers should listen?

This is from a Google QnA forum on PageRank:

Q: My site’s PageRank has gone up / gone down / not changed in months!
A: Don’t worry. In fact, don’t bother thinking about it. We only update the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year; this is our respectful hint for you to worry less about PageRank, which is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked. PageRank is an easy metric to focus on, but just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s useful for you as a site owner. If you’re looking for metrics, we’d encourage you to check out Analytics, think about conversion rates, ROI (return on investment), relevancy, or other metrics that actually correlate to meaningful gains for your website or business.
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Here’s my final thought for now: Each blogger should take some time to identify what “meaningful gains” are for her/him and then create an individualized method to get there.