Page Rank Metrics Disapearing
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Hi Everyone. I keep hearing from different people that googles PAGE RANK , Will soon be eliminated. Has anyone heard anything more about this ? Or is this a myth? This would make it more complex for the average person to rely on DA and TF etc.. Would love to hear from you guys. I actually like the PR rating system.
Also have websites more then a year old which are still not showing actual PR yet .Maybe delayed or maybe not.
Robert
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Google Page Rank was deprecated and not updated since the end of 2014, and the public facing Page Rank metric was generally too broad to be able to use as a useful tool...
The only change now is that Google has killed it off completely for any third party tools to pull data, so it's completely dead...
In terms of your own site, you're better off looking at whether a page is attracting traffic via organic & paid search and social channels as a measure of success.
In terms of external sites, the various tools (Including Moz) which allow you to check metrics are generally more useful - Page Rank never supplied an equivalent to Domain Authority (As a 'site' page rank was the page rank of the individual home page), and although the crawl amount often isn't quite as wide as the resources of Google, the individual PA scores are more granular, so you can more accurately look at closer competitors if that's your thing...
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"This would make it more complex for the average person to rely on DA and TF etc.." - I disagree with this, PageRank was never a valid metric anyway for the last 5 years at least as it was usually only updated once or twice a year. In addition to that the PageRank models were already duplicated in basis by DA or TF as well.
These metrics can't 'replace' PageRank but with what you want to do with the data you probably can still use it very easy.
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As Alick300 said, this has been confirmed. To add to that, Google stopped updating it some time ago which explains why your older domains still don't have a rating
It was somewhat helpful to beginners since it offered a single number but at the same time, the simplicity was also the flaw; you couldn't take it at face value. I saw plenty of terrible sites with a high PR and great sites with a low PR. This left the door open for spammers to manipulate their PR then sell links from it to unsuspecting victims on the basis of "it's a high PR site, how could I go wrong?!?"
Honestly, I'm glad to see it gone!
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Hi Robert,
It's official: Google has decided to kill off Toolbar PageRank from its browser.That means that if you are using a tool or a browser that shows you PageRank data from Google, within the next couple weeks (announced on 8th March 16)it will begin not to show any data at all.
Thanks
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