Comments on: Is Pagerank Dead? http://www.justsearching.co.uk/JustBlog/is-pagerank-dead.html Just Search | Search Engine Optimisation & Internet Marketing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Search Engine Optimisation http://www.justsearching.co.uk/JustBlog/is-pagerank-dead.html#comment-12793 Search Engine Optimisation Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:49:10 +0000 http://www.justsearching.co.uk/JustBlog/is-pagerank-dead.html#comment-12793 As with all news in Search, I wrote the article Saturday morning and didn't post it until Sunday afternoon, of course whilst I was looking after my son and having some family time Google decided to carry out a pagerank export, the General out put shows many sites reducing in pagerank (Even our own) but like the comment above there has been no drop in our rankings so nothing really to worry about, (Also our main competitors have all dropped some pagerank as well so there is at least some uniformity across the board. Some sites have had a rise in pagerank, but it does look like pagerank is now more difficult to get higher. As with all news in Search, I wrote the article Saturday morning and didn’t post it until Sunday afternoon, of course whilst I was looking after my son and having some family time Google decided to carry out a pagerank export, the General out put shows many sites reducing in pagerank (Even our own) but like the comment above there has been no drop in our rankings so nothing really to worry about, (Also our main competitors have all dropped some pagerank as well so there is at least some uniformity across the board. Some sites have had a rise in pagerank, but it does look like pagerank is now more difficult to get higher.

]]> By: ankit http://www.justsearching.co.uk/JustBlog/is-pagerank-dead.html#comment-12776 ankit Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:18:34 +0000 http://www.justsearching.co.uk/JustBlog/is-pagerank-dead.html#comment-12776 Pagerank is dead. Period. Pagerank is more dead than a rotting corpse, more dead than any teenager in Friday the 13th and more dead than those zombies in Resident Evil. Does Toolbar Pagerank decide your search engine rankings? If this was true, then Engadget, Forbes would have seen at least 20-30% traffic drop by now. None of the sites which have their PR decreased have reported their rankings being dropped. Will Google devaluate the link passing ability of websites with lower pagerank? Again if this happens then it will be Google itself who is going to suffer in the long run, because we all know Google's alogorithm is solely dependent on backlinks. And punishing authority or strong sites, means gaming its own algorithm which I doubt Google will do. And third for readers. How is this Pagerank important? Engadget has a Pagerank of 5 and Gizmodo has a Pagerank of 7 or 8 (Sorry I don`t have Toolbar installed). Does this means for a reader Gizmodo is way ahead of Engadget. I am sure this is something even the Gizmodo editors won`t agree to. So the Pagerank is rendered useless for all three; webmasters, advertisers and readers. I would suggest people who still follow pagerank to please see the right picture, and move on. Pagerank is dead. Period.

Pagerank is more dead than a rotting corpse, more dead than any teenager in Friday the 13th and more dead than those zombies in Resident Evil.

Does Toolbar Pagerank decide your search engine rankings? If this was true, then Engadget, Forbes would have seen at least 20-30% traffic drop by now. None of the sites which have their PR decreased have reported their rankings being dropped.

Will Google devaluate the link passing ability of websites with lower pagerank? Again if this happens then it will be Google itself who is going to suffer in the long run, because we all know Google’s alogorithm is solely dependent on backlinks. And punishing authority or strong sites, means gaming its own algorithm which I doubt Google will do.

And third for readers. How is this Pagerank important? Engadget has a Pagerank of 5 and Gizmodo has a Pagerank of 7 or 8 (Sorry I don`t have Toolbar installed). Does this means for a reader Gizmodo is way ahead of Engadget. I am sure this is something even the Gizmodo editors won`t agree to.

So the Pagerank is rendered useless for all three; webmasters, advertisers and readers. I would suggest people who still follow pagerank to please see the right picture, and move on.

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