Forget Google PageRank, It’s Just a Number!
There’s a lot of speculation, worry and curiosity about the supposed upcoming so called ‘PageRank Downgrade’ meaning Google will get rid of PageRank altogether.
Some think it’s happening because of link farms, manipulation, link selling, John Chow. You name it. Here’s what I think… I couldn’t care less!
I know it’s all relevant in the context of link selling. And if you’re a webmaster who does sell links then you may be worried as your PR was one of the defining factors in link sales.
But, think about it. It’s just a number, the only reason it seems important is because Google are so huge. Google are the biggest search engine and one of the biggest sites on the net, they generate a monster income and are just… huge.
If they want to abolish PR, so be it. I could not care less. All I care about it providing quality content, making quality websites and trying to generate income. PR only seems relevant in link selling evaluation because we and Google have made it that way.
Solution = make it irrelevant.
Start selling based on quality and traffic.
PR has never mattered to me much to be honest. I think it just becomes an obsessive figure in people’s minds which they feel they must improve more and more. They worry about obscure little SEO details and make delusional accusations towards Google about lowering their PR due to this and that. It’s become almost a statistical paranoia!
I say, forget about it. Worry about quality, user experience and traffic. The rest will fall into place.
Goodbye Google PageRank!
Yea will be good to get rid of it. I mean page rank can be manipulated anyway so its not really that reliable.
We should all start a movement over to Yahoo, just for the sake of diversity. All we need is someone to design a logo and think of a slogan! PageRank may go but those links still count for something over there.
I think the only people who were really affected are people with sites that depend on PR to earn money.
Besides, Google doesn’t like to be played upon.
Yeah but think about it. Those people don’t depend on anything, PR is only relevant and important because we and Google made it so.
So the solution = to make it NOT relevant and important and just take into account the other main attributes when selling links. Such as traffic, quality of content, backlinks etc.