It have been widely discussed on all over the SEO forum that there will be no more pagerank. It’s a big hit for directory owner like me where people used to judge the directory by pagerank before they decide to submit their website.
To make the story even stronger, Adam Lasnk a Search Evangelist for Google have also joined the discussion at forum Webmaster World.
Criticisms and feedback noted!
And the idea of removing PR from the toolbar… this raises some interesting questions.
PageRank is an important signal and remains one of many effective measures of quality, but admittedly it’s often viewed and used/abused in ways that run contrary to the interests of searchers and webmasters. Still, a lot of folks find the PR information useful; it provides a great incentive to try out our toolbar and explore its other features as well.
Given that many of you aren’t so fond of PR info in the toolbar, I’d love to know what feature you would like to see.
Mandatory criteria:
- Would have to provide actionable info for webmasters
- Would need to be useful and interesting for the ~99.9% of users who aren’t webmasters
Tedster, thanks much for starting this thread. I look forward to reading everyones’ ideas!
You guys can follow the discussion at forum Webmaster World. For those of you who do not know what is pagerank you this article from Wikipedia.
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