Does Page Rank Still Matter In SEO?

paulgl 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Binujha

No. Page Rank is not that important nowadays. PR is almost dead and the last update on PR was rolled out on Dec 2013.

See, people are just plain stupid. They hear a guy who knew a guy,
and they get half the story.

PR is actually updated daily.

You people are so friggin clueless, it's impossible to keep up.

I pity the fools that follow you, and the foolish stuff you obviously do.

Paul
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wrist3d 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Binujha

No. Page Rank is not that important nowadays. PR is almost dead and the last update on PR was rolled out on Dec 2013.

I partially agree with Binujha on the statement to public Google page rank is dead. Google is not showing any interest in updating Public toolbar Google Page Rank on time and any browser indicating PR bar is very very old ranks. So any marketing strategies based on those browser showing PR is obsolete and cannot be trusted in contemporary Internet Marketing. However, it is believed that actual PR is updated everyday in Google internal network and has an important role in ranking a web page. However, this internal PR update is not available to public and I don't think any serious marketer is using public (showing browser) Google PR to calculate a website worth now.

Right now I am using MOZ stats (DA and PA) to calculate the potential of a website. These stats can be taken as alternative for public toolbar Google Page Rank to calculate the worth of a website though they are not provided or confirmed by Google.
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Xochitl Shat

11 years ago

No, Page Rank is dead. It's not working anymore for ranking in Google.

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cbpayne

11 years ago

3 posters above have no idea what they are talking about. 1 does.

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by cbpayne

3 posters above have no idea what they are talking about. 1 does.

What do I win?

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DABK

11 years ago

The feeling of satisfaction that comes from stating correct facts that most people who read them will ignore them, of course!

If you answer me this question: Why does someone ask something about PR or DA every other day on this forum? when there's a search button and correct and incorrect answers abound, you win an additional feeling of satisfaction. This one's guaranteed to last a whopping 7 seconds.

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DABK

The feeling of satisfaction that comes from stating correct facts that most people who read them will ignore them, of course!

If you answer me this question: Why does someone ask something about PR or DA every other day on this forum? when there's a search button and correct and incorrect answers abound, you win an additional feeling of satisfaction. This one's guaranteed to last a whopping 7 seconds.

Because the moderators won't delete/merge threads like this. It's what should be done, but when you do not have moderators that actually have a working knowledge of SEO, that makes moderating an SEO forum a challenge. Not their fault.

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writeaway

11 years ago

It still matters but Google is no longer updating PR

Why does it matter? It impacts your LINK EARNING decisions. It impacts your OUTREACH decisions.

You need to use 'alternative' measurements like PA/DA from Moz

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cbpayne 11 years ago

Originally Posted by cbpayne

3 posters above have no idea what they are talking about. 1 does.

Lets make that 4

Originally Posted by writeaway

It still matters but Google is no longer updating PR
....You need to use 'alternative' measurements like PA/DA from Moz

1. They still updating PR
2. PA/DA are NOT used by any search engine as a metric in the ranking of a site
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paulgl

11 years ago

Originally Posted by writeaway

It still matters but Google is no longer updating PR

Why does it matter? It impacts your LINK EARNING decisions. It impacts your OUTREACH decisions.

You need to use 'alternative' measurements like PA/DA from Moz

Yeah. Sure.

NEWSFLASH: PR is updated daily.

Didn't know that? Of course not.

I don't know what link earning and outreach has to do with squat, but
....you guys rock!!!

Since google does use PR, and not PA/DA...which one do you believe in?

Oh yeah...Santa Claus!

Paul

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tbtb123

11 years ago

Domain's PR was never important, PR backlinks on the otherhand are the best known source of SEO value to date.

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Ben West

11 years ago

Wow, this thread is a minefield of misinformation for anyone new to SEO.

To stop people being scammed with fake PR pages, I am just going to say no, PR does not matter. The Page Rank that the public can view has not be updated in years, so it is not accurate anymore, and Page Rank is very easy to fake. When someone starts talking about Page Rank, walk away. Anyone who knows anything will not use Page Rank anymore.

Learn about DA, PA, Trust Flow and Citation Flow instead.

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cbpayne 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Ben West

Learn about DA, PA, Trust Flow and Citation Flow instead.

Why? No search engine uses any of those metrics in the ranking of sites?
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- nettiapina 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cbpayne
  
  Why? No search engine uses any of those metrics in the ranking of sites?
  
  Of course not, they're 3rd party interpretations. But you often need some way to tell if other sites have decent backlink profiles or not.
  
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chrisjohn93

11 years ago

Nothing is dead in Google.. Yes I agree that PR last update was roll out in 2013, But Google still count page rank of your website and it is one of the factor to get ranking of your website.

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shastaarenburg

11 years ago

Nop, not at all. Page rank doesn't matter now-a-days. Care about Domain Authority!

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by shastaarenburg

Nop, not at all. Page rank doesn't matter now-a-days. Care about Domain Authority!

The "toolbar" Pagerank that you saw on all kinds of handy tools isn't updated, and doesn't matter. Pagerank continues to be a part of Google's algorithm as far as anyone outside Google can tell.

Unfortunately DA is a very poor substitute.
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brainmineae

11 years ago

Yes,Page rank still matters in SEO 2015.

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sunny093

11 years ago

Now backlink is the matter the most...rather than PR

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mikhailblaze

11 years ago

Domain authority still matters, but its value has been depreciated in recent months. It's not something I'd bank my hopes on if I want to be in the first page of the SERPS, but it's not something I exclusively want to focus on.

Just work on your SEO and create high quality backlinks and site content. You're good to go once you do.

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rosario1990

11 years ago

No matter but you need to rank your keywords.

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gnojham 11 years ago

Originally Posted by rosario1990

No matter but you need to rank your keywords.

i rank all my keywords #1.
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linathinfotech

11 years ago

Don't be depends on only page rank. Use quality content which people love to share on social media and on their sites and you will easily get rankings.

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danielking1 11 years ago

Originally Posted by linathinfotech

Don't be depends on only page rank. Use quality content which people love to share on social media and on their sites and you will easily get rankings.

This! We've been trying to get our site pagerank up for so long but after a while writing good quality content help us rank without it. Is it important/nice to have a pagerank yes. DO you need it to rank, no.
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warmonitor11

11 years ago

Page Rank is dead,.. I Think so..SEO is all about traffic and contents

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nettiapina 11 years ago

Originally Posted by sunny093

Now backlink is the matter the most...rather than PR

Where do you think Pagerank comes from?

Originally Posted by warmonitor11

Page Rank is dead,.. I Think so..SEO is all about traffic and contents

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but traffic in itself isn't a factor in SEO. Sure, if you get visitors who are interested in your site, they may link to it.
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dewalds86

11 years ago

Short answer, no it does not.

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ChrisNosal

Banned 11 years ago

It does, but only to decide if your site is legitimate or not, but it may not necessarily help you be successful on Google.

For example, a site has PR5 but is targeted toward the keyword "six-pack abs", while another has PR7 but is "weight loss".

You MUST make sure your site is targeted in order to leverage that Pagerank into real results.

The combination is like an engine or a car - both are useless without each other.

When you have the combination, which many marketers miss entirely, you've got the winning formula.

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kavyasharma561

11 years ago

Of course, yes page rank is important as per as Google. Page rank tells about the importance of the site, that's why we make back links from the high page rank sites ..

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11 years ago

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JyotiRana

11 years ago

Yes, Page Rank still matter in seo. In order to get a high rank, creating backlinks is must with unique contents.

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MarleneSchwarz

11 years ago

Value form 0 to 10 determine page's importance and authority on the web according to google. But under the latest google updates like Panda and Penguin , new algorithms using social signals and fresh content re dominating the ranking signals, leaving PR as less important. Google removed PR from its Webmaster Tools some years ago.

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DABK

11 years ago

You can't even spell India correctly, why would someone want to learn from you?

By the way, sticking your link in this thread does you no good from any point of view.

If you want SEO advantages, find a way that works.
If you want visitors/followers, stick your link in discussions related to whatever you teach.

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Value form 0 to 10 determine page's importance and authority on the web according to google. But under the latest google updates like Panda and Penguin , new algorithms using social signals and fresh content re dominating the ranking signals, leaving PR as less important. Google removed PR from its Webmaster Tools some years ago.

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Amila Supun

11 years ago

Yes page rank matters. But new websites don't get a page rank. But if you have a back link from a web site that have page rank 6-9 it will be very valuable for your website in SEO.

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MikeFriedman

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Amila Supun

Yes page rank matters. But new websites don't get a page rank. But if you have a back link from a web site that have page rank 6-9 it will be very valuable for your website in SEO.

No page with a PR of 7, 8, or 9 is ever going to link to you.

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gnojham 11 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

No page with a PR of 7, 8, or 9 is ever going to link to you.

i dont know, i think he can make it happen
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sureshgupta

11 years ago

PR doesn't matter nowadays. What matters is that Domain Authority(DA).

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amutechnologies

10 years ago

PR does not matter to getting higher ranking. I have seen that plenty of website is having Pr 5-6 but traffic less than 80 per day on the other hand some having PR 0 To 1 but having enough traffic instead of that per day, so I think you need to focus on quality work.

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wholeheartmarketing

10 years ago

Yeah! Page Rank have main matter in SEO. According to layman’s terms, PageRank uses the number of links pointing to a web page to determine the value of that web page.

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cbpayne

10 years ago

Originally Posted by sureshgupta

PR doesn't matter nowadays. What matters is that Domain Authority(DA).

As no search engine uses DA as a metric in their ranking algorithms, care to explain why it matters?

Originally Posted by wholeheartmarketing

Yeah! Page Rank have main matter in SEO. According to layman’s terms, PageRank uses the number of links pointing to a web page to determine the value of that web page.

How do you know what the PageRank of a page is?

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