There are a lot of website ranking systems available online and page rank should not be one of it. Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, etc measures ranking from traffic but page rank is from backlinks. It is totally different view and it should not be considered as ranking at all. We can get page rank juice from a dofollow backlink. If the page having high PR, low outbound links, relevant info, then the passing value or PR juice will be heavier. If an administrator owns hundreds of website or blogs that is hosted on separate hosting IP and domain names. He can manipulate pagerank value for a particular website by giving a backlink from hundreds of high pagerank websites with unique IP and domain name.
It may lead that particular website to get good pagerank and it may affect the value of re-selling. Unlike other ranking system, pagerank becoming more visible these days with some tips from Matt Cutts and other SEO experts. This may lead to easy manipulation of pagerank value to any website, thus giving almost no real value. The visibility of pagerank for each page especially higher PR, makes it vulnerable for linkbaits, backlink creation, etc. This motivates link buyers to get only dofollow links which is against Google TOS and may lead to PR penalty for the sellers.
It may be difficult to monitor billions of websites on paid links with dofollow value. So, I can only see one good solution that stops buyers requesting dofollow links. Hiding pagerank value or removing it from public may be the only solution. Pagerank should be internal ranking system in Google and should not be shown to the public. In my opinion, showing pagerank will only lead to more dofollow link sales and purchase in online industry. It may lead to penalty to those innocent sellers who are not aware of dofollow and nofollow attributes or Google TOS.
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In all honesty, we shouldn’t be discouraging Google (or Alexa) from offering any feedback to us.
We all already know that PageRank and Alexa Rank are subject to manipulation, but should the answer be to get rid of it or dismiss it?
Your site is being evaluated by these factors, like it or not. And you are doing your blog a great disservice by optimizing your blog to excel in these areas.
We need as much analytics and analysis as can be obtained, don’t we?
Otherwise, we’d be blogging in the dark…
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Ranking factors always gives motivation to blog as competition always brings advancements. As for pagerank, Google always mentioned to us not to concentrate on it and keep blogging as normal. But, they also teach how to manipulate this pagerank. Same goes to Alexa ranking. I guess, each ranking system got its own plus and minus points. We can only do best by keep blogging actively with frequent new contents.
This might be great idea for people owning a low PR site but those own a high PR site will certainly resist this proposal
Exactly! Pagerank most often used to boast a website among competitors. I would definitely love to show off my pagerank if I gained PR7 or more.
Atniz I thought of leaving your site as its taking incredibly long time to load.Please do something about it.
Anyway I guess can PR be hided. Anyone can use the Google tool bar and view your PR…as your PR is 3.
Ok Thanks
TC
I just notice that I have used a lot of larger size pictures. I have reduce the number now. Hope it loads faster.
Yes, my PR is unchanged for nearly 6 months now.
I think they are just trying to encourage webmasters to place less emphasis on pagerank.
Yes, but it does not really effect them. It will if they completely remove it from showing to public.
Nowaday page rank is a big target for most of webmasters in the world. It urges them to gain a lot of backlinks as well as spam the internet, as much as possible. Remove page rank is a good idea, i think so.
Yes, I think so too. Completely removing pagerank will give more room to other factors like relevancy, outbound links, etc as most important factors.
Does anyone actually care about page rank these days? As long as a site gets visitors, comments etc, does it matter!
Thats what i think about page rank.. who cares about pr the real power is visitors
don’t get it wrong.
Page rank is like a prestige for serious blogger. If someone visits a blog with high traffic, but they only see PR 0 on their google toolbar, they will think there is something wrong in that blog.
Visitors is valuable, but you should not underrated PR.
Unrated PR could be related to Penalty or some misreading from toolbar. Definitely is not a good sign. But, if they remove it from google webmaster tool where no one really bothers to look, I don’t really see the point of Google stressing us don’t bother about pagerank anymore. They still want us to worry about pagerank.
Yes, you are right. Some sites might have high page rank but zero traffic which definitely will not bring any conversion.
Yeah, there are many who really cares. I’m sure you will notice too on paid post networks or paid links site that still evaluate the value on our blog based on pagerank.
This is done by Google is likely to face a business rampant Sale and Purchase Paid Link and Review, which is a benchmark of price and sell at least selling links or paid review is usually viewed from Page Ranknya.
Usually pagerank is used to set value on advertising. Pagerank sculpting will continue to exist until Google shows it to public.
I believe google want us to do it etchically?
Yeah, but till what extend is called ethical? It gives us a lot of questions if they don’t stick to one point. Either show it to public or never show it.
Google don’t show page rank anyway, the toolbar only shows what it might have been some months ago. It’s probably kept alive as yet another example of Google misdirection. If huge amounts of page rank suddenly appear on Google’s radar for a site than it suggests to them that the site’s being spammed, that’s probably the reason they keep it at all. It isn’t something you should lose any sleep over either way. Worry about traffic and conversions.
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Pagerank is still exist on toolbar and other pagerank checking tools. Although, it is not really important but many webmasters are still possessed about it too.
One thing that i feel strange is that google guys always tell us to not manipulate the PR but they show us how to do it. It is really strange, isn’t it?
Yeah, it is. If they doesn’t want us to manipulate, then they can stop showing this pagerank to the public and use it for internal purpose.