Google PageRank
 

According to Google, MusicBanter has the joint highest music forum PageRank on the web.

Google Directory - Arts > Music > Chats and Forums

We score a 6. To get a better idea of the ranking system...youtube scores a 9!

Anyone know of a bigger music forum than MB?...

Myes. Sputnik Music & Musician Forums
Check out the currently active users...'tis crazy...:\

Not all of them are currently logged on though and they have a page rank of 4.

Didn't we used to have shitloads logged on when they weren't?

I have no idea...how do you know they're not all logged on? Sigh, I miss the good old days when you could tell when someone was online...

I thought maybe it was a record of members logged on for the whole day so far?

They have something like 130,000 + members!!!

If thats the case why does it never seem like we have more then 25 members?

I know that the TFOT boards has a lot more regular posters. Like probably twice as many. In total of people who have registered, Im sure MB has more.

hey i just noticed what song your sig is from :)
i was listning to it right now

I was thinking about how big MB was in music forum circles the other day. Sputnik definitely is bigger - I post there sometimes... they have a good layout and great reviews system.

Sputnik is all 17 year-old 'Classic Rock' fans. Admittedly I joined 5 minutes ago, but it seems that way...

^I hope your putting a link to this forum in your sig.

How does this google pagerank work then?
How can we have a higher ranking than a board that's bigger?

Cause I'm a beast.

You know it. They only keep 3 pages of posts available in each forum, so they have fewer posts than us.

I joined sputnik because I wanted a decent indie forum but I left after reading comments like:

"The Moon and Antarctica is overproduced garbage"
"Nick Drake is for wannabe indie kids"
"Pavement is the best band ever"

I don't feel so comfortable in such a big community.

Me either.
I just joined
But felt was too lost and confused too post anything
I didn't know where too start

It's all to do with the number of other sites that link to yours, the words that form the link, and the overall content of the page containing the link.

Go to Search Engine Marketing Services - Marketleap: Trust, Search, Succeed and use the link popularity check for an indication of how it works.

Dave