Page Ranks is dead

[Toon]

I'd like to talk a moment to mourn the passing of PageRank, the secret sauce that made Google the spicy search engine we once knew and loved.

Some might argue that blogs killed PageRank. But the fact is, the online world goes through pretty impressive changes every few years. And, believe it or not, PageRank is old. In Internet time, PageRank may have been well into middle age.

Its death hasn't been announced yet, but the time is near. The signs have been around for quite a while.

by Jeremy Zawodny

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http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000751.html

[Hoyer]

People still link depending on it though so some must think it still counts

[SatanicPenguins]

So he was complaining google was Showing
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/
before
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog
in results?

Im pretty sure google looks at how deep directorys are and that affects value,

And now his blog's ahead of his homepage in results, he just didnt give it enough time lol

Long live King Google.

[jeela]

If it's dead how come there's so many discussions every time they do an update?

[Diablos]

Because people are stupid. I sure as hell get fed up with "when is at the PR update do happez??!" threads.

PR has been dead to me for a long time, the only reason it was ever anything to me is because people wanted to see pagerank results because they knew nothing else.
These days I advise people look at SERPs not PR for success. At the end of the day there are A LOT of PR0-2 sites that rank high for competitive keywords.

[d3niss3]

Originally Posted by Diablos

These days I advise people look at SERPs not PR for success. At the end of the day there are A LOT of PR0-2 sites that rank high for competitive keywords.

Well, that is exactly the problem. People are lazy to check the SERP of a site so instead of manually checking it, they will just see the PR of the site on the displayed mini green bar... and that's it.