Blogs and Google rank

If I understood this, I'm sure I'd be less amazed by it. Someone reached smays.com by way of a Google search on "debt personal responsibility" (quotation marks mine). Of the 1.2 million results for that search, my blog post is #2 #32. Think about it. That is not a totally obscure search phrase. How many companies, consultants and experts deal with "debt personal responsibility"? And my little blog post outranks them all a bunch of them? Like I said... I'm probably missing something here.

Correction: Thanks to JW for catching (see comments) my error. My post ranked (at the time)  #32 out of 1.2 million results. Not #2. My bad.

Comments

[JW]

Yeah, like the rank in the top right corner. You're number 32, which still isn't bad...

[hdomke]

Google's PageRank is important but it often does not make sense. Your example of ""debt personal responsibility" shows the odd results that it can give.

Here is a link explaining PageRank: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_rank

Blogs often score higher in PageRanks than regular websites. Your blog does extremely well, with a PageRank of 5. Higher is better. 10 is maximum. www.learfield.com also has a PageRank of 5.