Google's noteworthy engineer Matt Cutts stirred up the SEO world with a little note on his blog. The always-sparkling discussion of PageRank and its secret sauce got a nudge from Cutts with his announcement.
"I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites," he said. "I figured the SEO industry could use something to discuss, so I thought I’d give people a heads-up about the toolbar PageRanks."
Naturally, this little bombshell pulled in plenty of attention from the search engine optimization community. Comments flowed in, with Cutts responding to a handful. In one example, he noted the Toolbar PageRanks tend to update about every three to four months.
One commenter questioned whether or not anyone except site publishers actually bother having PageRank enabled in their Toolbar. Cutts said it was more than the commenter suspected.
"The last time I checked, many many more users turned on the PageRank display than there are site owners. The PageRank display is actually a popular feature, as it turns out," he replied.
It sounds like, on a superficial level, people who use the Google Toolbar don't mind looking to see how popular a site may be, even if they don't fully understand what PageRank. Quite frankly, we're astonished the Wikipedia entry on PageRank isn't required reading in schools these days (we kid, folks).
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Useless metric now
The visible toolbar is a useless metric. The only reason it is still there is that it is part and parcel of the original 'secret sauce' that Google started with. Like the Queen, it is a representative figurehead, more than a specific useable metric.
be good idea if the pagerank
be good idea if the pagerank was updated on the toolbar more often
refreshing PR values
""I’m expecting that also in the next few days that we’ll be expiring some older penalties on websites." ... thanks for the nugget. A blog I created to help market a commercial online product had been under google penalty. Just checked. It's been lifted. Thank the maker.
pagerank
lol, I completely agree, we will all be judged by our pagerank status in the future. Your Credit file, and Pagerank, will govern your job, mortgage, car, congestion charge..... ha, Seriously though, it may not have the same weighting in terms of SEO, but it certainly appears to be important to a great many webmasters/users.
Pagerank Mania
Future IT job interview:
Boss: Do you have a blog?
Candidate: Yes sir, I do
Boss: What's you page rank?
Candidate: Actually I have PR3.
Boss: Sorry, actually we do not want any employee with Pagerank below 5. Good Bye.
I'm quite sure it's gonna happen someday.
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