Yes PageRank is a waste of time to worry about. That's why Google is deleting it! There has been confirmation by Google that PageRank will be removed in the next version of Google Toolbar. They explained in a press conference that PageRank is pointless, it doesn't change anything with your SERP. So people saying LE with PR2 or whatever, stop wasting your time. PR means nothing.
PR is USELESS
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thizzladen
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What's useless? PR altogether or just link exchanging with PR+ sites?
On October 14, 2009, Google employee Susan Moskwa confirmed that the company had removed PageRank from its Webmaster Tools section. Her post said in part, "We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true.
you should focus on quality linkbacks, keywords (not meta keywords), dynamic meta desctiptions, page titles, no html errors, keywords in first 250 characters, quality content, alt tags for images, sitemaps, error pages, seo url's, neighbour text to external links, no follow to bad neighbours, keyword alt for links, <head> tags, quality relevant external links, and a better bloody sig :P
This has being coming for ages. It shouldn't be a shock to anyone. They announced first in 2007 is didn't have any impact on search results and tried to remove it from the toolbar but their marketing department said it would have branding problems so it was left even though it was uselsess.
exactly
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6a1d6250e26e9e48&hl=en
Susan Moskwa (Google Employee) said :
We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.
And another quote:http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq--crawling--indexing---ranking#pagerank
We've known PR is useless for SERPs for a while now, probably over a year.
Although, if you read the quote you posted, it says they will remove it from the toolbar, not the system. They will most likely leave PR in the system for years to come as many web services make use of it.
As for it being COMPLETELY useless, that's another matter. PR is not completely useless, it is useful for getting another site to a higher PR.
Although, if you read the quote you posted, it says they will remove it from the toolbar, not the system. They will most likely leave PR in the system for years to come as many web services make use of it.
As for it being COMPLETELY useless, that's another matter. PR is not completely useless, it is useful for getting another site to a higher PR.
SERPs alone do not depend on PR, but if you make a new domain and try to link with several PR4-5 warez sites they are going to turn you down. But if your site is PR3+, you probably have a good shot at link exchanging with them. So really, having good PR = more link exchanges = better serps.
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