So Long PageRank...

It's a John M video. Pinch of salt with that.

It will take awhile and a lot of research but eventually its just going to be correlated with rankings. But yeah its going to be a huge headache and adjustment evaluating links by those metrics alone. Even though we jumped the pagerank ship over a year ago in evaluating link sources we still look at the incoming PR links with the general thought the link ratings can't all be off.

When we will know for sure its dead is when we wake up and Google has just turned off that API all together. all pages will be N/A (won't senuke guys be happy) LOL it will be like after a hurricane. nobody will have power and people look at each other and feel like they are back in the stone age. What now?

but hey as a marketer I will have my product waiting -

Ranking without Pagerank - Make $10,000 per day while Everyone Else is Stumbling in the Dark.

After a year, PageRank has become obsolete anyway.. I mean, if the BBC released a news story 2-days before the 2013 pagerank algorithm, that story most probably would of been given a PR4-PR5 or whatever.

Now, it's buried in thousand's of pages of archives, sitting on bbc.co.uk/archives/10556/newsstory.

The likelihood of that particular news story getting any juice now is minimal, at least from on-site.

I personally welcome the removal of pagerank. I think far too many people focus on it.

Imagine the linksellers.

"BUY YOUR PR7-PR9 LINKS HERE"...

Oops.. doesn't work anymore...

"BUY YOUR DA80 - DA99 LINKS HERE!!!!"

But again, it's just Google shifting to try and make grey-hat and black-hat SEO harder and more time consuming. We all know they want real brands and real businesses, not spammy affiliate sites.

I've even started building my affiliate sites as real businesses.. Renting PO boxes, adding phone numbers, addresses etc.. Getting listed in Yelp etc.. I don't know if it helps, but for less than $100, I'll pay a company to build citations for my affiliate sites to try and emulate a real-life presence.

Page rank has been pretty much useless for a while now.

The data that Moz/Majestic provides is still very helpful.

Well, if true, that's unfortunate. I know a lot of guys don't like or use pagerank to a huge extent - but I liked using it (in conjunction with other metrics), even if it was inaccurate for months at a time.

And you two know that there's going to be at least 10 threads a week on this from some random D.S. who thinks the sky is falling for the next 5 or 6 months, right? That will be fun to look forward to.

I am still hopeful for one last update possibly at the end of this year and the fact they still have a google pagerank toolbar that makes me hopeful. I mean i think of it this way, if they really retired PR wouldn't they remove it altogether ?

Maybe Google is just ******* with us by not removing it altogether but i would be sad to see it end because besides SEO purposes i used it to judge the quality of a site. Anytime you saw a site with PR5+ you could be sure its a quality site and safe because you can't get that high PR easily.

Far as link-selling goes, google is dumb if they think they can put a stop to it this way. Link sellers are just gonna start using a different metric, maybe that will not be as accurate but most of the links sold had fake PR anyway

Gone are those days when We used to wait for the PageRank Update like Exam results. Don't know why they Dropped PR status bar. Now Domain Authority would be a big factor for checking authenticness of a website, Big + for Moz.
Alexa rank can't be trusted as it can be manipulated easily.
May be they stopped it cause of Spamming done to achieve Page Rank.

Actually, i think it would make it easier for link sellers now if they would totally do away with the toolbar PR, just fire up a well setup gsa campaign and tada! DA PA TF CF!

This makes it easier now, back then when they updated pagerank at least link sellers have to wait a few months for the next update, now, just fire them up and expect some results after a few weeks then start adding those new sites to their inventory.

Speaking of new metrics.

Let no one forget in all of this what a domains PR represents to almost anyone who buys based on it. It's a commodity. A tool used by almost every auction house, domain broker, online business buyer/seller, SEO, and almost every internet business with any notion of what "ranking in Google" means. It's an openly traded commodity that creates spin off business (SEO) and employment. It would obviously also have a huge combined $$$ value.

You take away that metric of implied value for an SEO, and you take it away for everyone else too.

It's not just the little guys down on WF that make their living off of PR.

Even some people still use it as a trust factor when searching the web

But in saying that.

The fact that PR was a "Google given" metric, it did hold back the development of such tools from third parties. Those coders will hopefully now see the opening in the market, and use the huge amounts of data they have. And take the lead upgrading their own respective metrics.

Same old story, another day. Whoever has the best methods, tools and ability to analyse the given data the best. WINS!!!

And that's most likely going to be the same guys that where winning yesterday.