Views on PR - My complete U-Turn as of today...
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Up until today I was anti PageRank, believing that it was a useless metric which just caused obsession and misplaced working effort... however, as of today I have done a complete u-turn and been shown how it is still useful as a trigger monitor type thing which is awesome.
Just wondering what others views were on this?
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Thanks, yeah the video says pretty much what I was thinking, that whilst PR isn't worth obsessing over, it is worth watching (i.e. as a sign of Google's reactions to stuff, such as penalties)... I stopped watching it all together about two years ago but it seems I need to start watching it again.
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Rand spoke about this subject in a recent Whiteboard Friday What is Google's Pagerank Good For?
There are some key takeaways here.
Sha
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I've always thought it was something. Not everything, but how many public signals are there? When I look on SEOMOZ at my list of strongest pages, the high page ranks are at the top, the mid PRs are in the middle etc.
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