27th April 2007

PageRank changes?

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I’ve seen a lot of seemingly good sites loosing their PageRank completely. It’s propagating through the datacenters like a normal update. Perhaps there is an update coming? Or perhaps, just perhaps, Google has finally disbanded the entire visible PageRank system and we can all get on with our lives after inevitable the discussion dies down. I can only hope.

If they are not disbanding it completely, hopefully they are going to move inside Webmaster Tools along with the link command results.  (fingers crossed)

Think of the implications!

  • The link selling industry would loose its most abused form of assigning value to a link.
  • Link seekers would be forced to judge a link based on the traffic and type of traffic a page produces rather just the link juice.
  • Digital Point and Webmaster World won’t have anything to talk about.
  • SEO’s and webmasters will have to buy Camaros or Porshes to make up for the lack of PageRank inspired phallic replacement.
  • Alexa Ratings, the most easily gamed metric ever developed, will have see increased use. I’m sure the Amazon people are salivating at this very prospect.
  • People will start publishing their site stats, feed subscriptions, and other metrics to try to justify their existence.
  • Site owners will worry more about search engine rankings and less about Page Rankings.
  • Google will be admitting that even though PageRank was a great idea as far as indexing goes, the concept of making it public was a mistake.

I’m sure there are many more, any one else care to elaborate?

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There are currently 3 responses to “PageRank changes?”

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  1. 1 MyAvatars 0.2 On April 30th, 2007, JLH said:

    major bummer, looks like just another pagerank update. Oh well, maybe next time.

  2. 2 MyAvatars 0.2 On April 30th, 2007, JohnMu said:

    I got some surplus black masking tape, if you want to put some on your monitor. I only needed a little bit.

  3. 3 MyAvatars 0.2 On May 1st, 2007, JLH said:

    Thanks, that’d be great.

    You know, now that I think about it, I wish they would just fix the message that pops up on the toolbar when you hover above it.

    “Importance” is sending the wrong signal, in my opinion.

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