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digitalpoint
Mar 4th 2004, 10:39 am
I've been debating about adding the ability to track PageRank historically under the back link tracker section. Any thoughts on this? Would anyone care? Or is it just a waste of time?

- Shawn
hasitruparel
Mar 5th 2004, 9:47 pm
Hello Shawn,

I would surely care!

thanks, Hasit
sofia12
Mar 8th 2004, 1:42 pm
Yes, would definitely love to have that feature.


I've been debating about adding the ability to track PageRank historically under the back link tracker section. Any thoughts on this? Would anyone care? Or is it just a waste of time?

- Shawn
irish_ladie
Mar 14th 2004, 9:56 am
That would be really great !!
Mr T
Mar 14th 2004, 10:28 am
Yes that would be good - if they ever update the toolbar :(
sarahk
Mar 14th 2004, 5:00 pm
I'd like to see it!

A question, you might not want to give the game away...

Would this page http://www.markusallen.org/cgi-bin/rank.pl be using the api or some other tool?

I'd like to be able to list a series of pages and see their PR at a glance.

Sarah
Smyrl
Mar 19th 2004, 10:47 am
Bring it on! Another great idea. For some of us it may indicate we lost a link from high ranking site.

Shannon Smyrl
digitalpoint
Mar 19th 2004, 10:54 am
I'd like to see it!

A question, you might not want to give the game away...

Would this page http://www.markusallen.org/cgi-bin/rank.pl be using the api or some other tool?

I'd like to be able to list a series of pages and see their PR at a glance.


The Google API doesn't have the ability to get the PageRank, so it would be external of that. PageRank is terribly difficult to get without the toolbar because of the checksum Google has within it. You need to be able to calculate the checksum (which is unique for every URL) in order to get the PageRank.

- Shawn
GuyFromChicago
Mar 19th 2004, 4:26 pm
My two cents - I think being able to track PR would be a great tool.
hulkster
Mar 25th 2004, 9:23 am
Another "me-too" from the peanut gallery Shawn! ;-)

BTW, we've seen a number of these pop up recently - did Google recently "soften" the checksum algorithm and/or I assume that someone reverse-engineered it? Being a "geek", I'd be interested in the details if those are shareable.

Also, I thought I had read there is a TOS (Terms of Service) issue with doing automated Page Rank Queries outside of their toolbar - am I mistaken and/or is that no longer the case?

Thanx,
alek
digitalpoint
Mar 25th 2004, 9:31 am
The checksum algorithm was not softened, but you are right... there are people that have reverse engineered it in raw assembly (I'm not one of them BTW).

If PageRank numbers are added to the keyword tracker, it definitely will not be me making the toolbar queries.

Beyond that, I don't want to get *too* much in depth on it until it's actually added to the keyword tracker (if at all).

- Shawn
digitalpoint
Mar 25th 2004, 1:59 pm
It has been done...

- Shawn
hulkster
Mar 25th 2004, 6:32 pm
This ROCKS!

See new thread started by Shawn. (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=172)

Thanx,
alek
candysmith
Mar 26th 2004, 1:33 am
Great idea Shawn! You are my hero, I told you before I love your tools & they help me more than I can explain here.
novasoft
Apr 20th 2004, 5:24 am
But from what i hear you need the google toolbar installed on the webserver and you need to be able to crack the encrypted variable that google demands when you make a request to the xml file that holds the Page Rank.
Id love to know how you cracked that one ;)

I have found a windows based tool that does that finds high PR pages for you, but not a web based one as yethttp://www.mrbiz.net/p.php?user=34&c=prp
digitalpoint
Apr 20th 2004, 9:37 am
Well, it definitely doesn't have the toolbar on it (it's a Linux server). :)

- Shawn