Google PageRank Soon Gone?
Can you imagine your world without the little green bar?
You may just have to get used to the idea as many SEO experts think this exactly where we’re heading.
Google has been hinting about this for a while now. Google reps have mentioned this on their webmasters FAQ a while ago -
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.
In a more recent move, Google sends us yet another hint. Google Webmasters Tools no longer displays you Pagerank. Yup, the most official indication of your Pagerank is now gone.
The next logical step for Google to take is to remove the green bar from their toolbar as well.
The World without Google Pagerank
Granted, your average web surfer has no idea what pagerank even means. Yet, what about that part of the web dealing with constructing and promoting websites and blogs? how will the disappearance of Pagerank affect us?
Here are some possible effects:
- No more endless blog posts and forum threads about “when is the next pagerank update” followed by an endless stream of “My pagerank went up/down!!!” when it actually happens.
- No more stupid replies from webmasters/bloggers who won’t exchange links with you because “your blog is only PR2 and mine is PR4″.
- No more sites that exist solely to let you know what your pagerank is.
- No more relying on this so-easy-to-manipulate metric when buying/selling websites.
In other words, the thing to say once Pagerank is gone is: good riddance.
What do you think? Can you live without knowing what your site’s PR is?
Category: SEO | Tags: google, pagerank, SEO 12 comments »
February 9th, 2010 at 3:18 am
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February 9th, 2010 at 5:20 am
Yeah, I can imagine a world where I don’t know the PR of my sites.. hell, I don’t know what it is for most of my sites already. Who cares? Good organic rankings get the traffic, not PR.
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Anne Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:40 am
I don’t know my PR of most of my sites either. I’ll be fine once we lose the green bar once and for all.
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Twitter: arafat21
February 9th, 2010 at 8:29 am
PR have no importance to me. I only concentrate to improve my SERP. But, it will be good if Google vanish it, at least some of the peoples then can sleep well.
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February 9th, 2010 at 8:29 am
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February 10th, 2010 at 9:43 am
I would rather they keep it regardless of how useful or useless some bloggers might think Google Page Rank is, I feel it’s a piece of the pie. I’ve been listening to rumors about Google PR going bye-bye for a long time now, most recently I heard about it like four days before the last update.
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Twitter: blogviet
February 11th, 2010 at 7:01 am
I had a post about this but I am sure it is hard to remove PR at least from Toolbar, it is Google’s brand and no more to build up backlinks, a lot of SEO companies go to the hell
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Udegbunam Chukwudi
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February 11th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
That’s true! Take away Google Pagerank and the SEO business model would be dead in no time
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Twitter: sonlinebiz
February 11th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
They can’t take it away now. I’m still getting a grip on my obsession with the damn thing. ROFLMAO.
Anyway it doesn’t really affect search engine traffic and as your rightly said in the article No more stupid replies from webmasters/bloggers who won’t exchange links with you because “your blog is only PR2 and mine is PR4″.
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Twitter: Selurus
February 12th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Oh Google PR is just one of the site metrics. I’m sure if PR is removed people will find other things to obsess over. Alexa ranking is a popular candidate.
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February 26th, 2010 at 8:16 pm
hey Anne,
I’m not sure when the last time I looked at my blog’s PR was, but I don’t think it’s very impressive.
I think google might stop showing it, but I think they will always use it as one of many factors. They need some way to differentiate between a link from CNN and a link from a spammy directory nobody has ever heard of.
That said, I think the best thing to do is ignore it and let other people waste their energy worrying about it.
Steve
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Well, for me as a newbie, I can say good riddance. I am constantly watching the toolbar quork? I installed to see everybody’s rank. And can’t say I’m happy when one of my sites doesn’t even get ranked at all. I think I would rather have 0 of 10 than none.
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