Google PageRank Dead?
Historically Google PageRank has happened every three months but this time it’s a few months overdue. Google’s tardiness with PageRank has caused a lot of talk amongst website owners and frustration with the blogging community.
What’s going on?
There is talk within the search community that PageRank will no longer be used because it has been abused by some who have inflated their rankings unfairly.
If this speculation is correct, Google may remove PageRank from every website.
Slightly disappointing, as I have a few sites that I was anxiously waiting to reveal a Page Rank… Although, I see some positiveness in this potential action by Google.
No more paying attention to the little green bar….
So many website owners and SEO’s have focused on getting tons of links to their site, forgetting to focus on developing a useful or quality site. By Google removing PageRank, there is a potential of content value increasing.
Although links are important to Google Ranking of a website, they are not necessary attached to PageRank. PageRank is not the most important detail to revealing how well your site ranks.
There are plenty of sites that have a PageRank of 2 and are listed at the top of the Google Search results, above sites with higher PageRank. Placing high in search results should really be the most important factor. You’ll have a higher success rate placing #1 for your most relevant keywords.
I think it could be a very good thing for Google to simply do away with Page Rank. Maybe people would worry more about providing something useful to the blogging community rather than spend all of their time trying to run a scam and get a high Page Rank just to sell the site for tens times what it’s worth because of a green bar and a number.
The bad thing is that Page Rank as flawed as it is, is still one of the best ways to tell the quality of a website (not always obviously as many of us are still at zero and I think run good sites), but for advertisers looking to advertise on sites, it could be bad as the other systems available for them to measure a site’s worth are more flawed than Page Rank, so they will be left to rely on a bunch of flawed systems to tell them what sites to advertise on which could really hurt sites and their ability to get advertisers.
I guess only time will tell what happens. I just wish they’d say something one way or the other. I can see tons of Google employee’s in the know just sitting behind their desk laughing at all of us because they know they hold the key to our blogging fate. lol.
I keep hearing how pr will be updated around November or December. A lot of sites has lost some pr so Google is updating PR except that they might have a new algorithm which is slowing things down.
@David
Obviously I don’t know for sure (nor does anyone else for that matter) but from what I’ve been hearing, the people that have lost some Page Rank are the ones that were selling text links on their sites and Google has penalized them manually in the system. It wasn’t the normal update where they just release the new Page Rank to the public.
Looks like PR finally updated!