Do you think Google will ever kill PageRank?

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BrandontheGreat

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What's your take on it? Google has been known to drop websites that sell text ads/links from their rankings because the company is taking advantage of their PageRank and selling links to other sites who want high PageRank.

Will Google ever completely disregard PR from their algorithm as a whole, to mess up the text link business?
 


It's unlikely anytime soon, but I wouldn't be surprised if they stopped publishing that data to the public.
 
I think even though pagerank is still there that there is a larger emphasis on trust and authority of the domain than ever before.
 
They just drop the pagerank from the toolbar - not your actual pagerank. That's why you can drop form a PR5 to a PR 0 and your SERP's are unaffected. So just ignore it unless you are selling a site.
 
Unarmed Gunman said:
That is actually completely inaccurate. The PR you see in your toolbar has nothing to do with ranking, but your actual internal PageRank is one of many variables in Google's ranking algo.
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So you're saying internal PR of 5 will always outrank internal PR 3 for every single term they're competing on regardless of the information on the page?

I know i phrased that like a dickhead, not meaning to sound that way. :)
 
I do find it odd than whenever there is a pagerank update, the SERPS shake up and you either sink or swim.
 
Bofu2U said:
So you're saying internal PR of 5 will always outrank internal PR 3 for every single term they're competing on regardless of the information on the page?

I know i phrased that like a dickhead, not meaning to sound that way. :)
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No, that's way too simplistic, there are many factors in the ranking algo, but internal PR (Google's internal PR value for your page, not necessarily the exported one on the toolbar) IS one of them, so it does have an affect on ranking. You said it had no effect, and I was just pointing out that there is a difference between the toolbar PR (which is what gets penalized for link selling and what not and has no effect), and the actual PR which is less rarely penalized. Additionally, your actual PR is not an integer but rather a floating point so one PR 4 is not equal to another PR 4.

There is more info out there on internal PR vs. exported PR if you want to search, but it definitely does have some effect on your SERP's.
 
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