"Might" might be an understatement. I think any engine that doesn't have the resources to develop something similar (anyone except MSN, Y! & G) would be beating down the doors to be a beta tester. Y, the big 3 account for most of the searches done daily. 2 of them could potentially use (or buyout) this system once it's proven effective.
Come up with something that sounds web 2.0. Maybe pHr8 (page-rate) I'm in, if there's anything I can help with.
The name will be openpv (for open pagevalue) for now. I registered a domain for the project and we are set up a phpBB for discussions.
We set up a website at openpv.org (open page value). There's a forum and some basic explanations for now. If anybody is interested in joining the disucssion or the team just sign up to the forum. regards
Sure, but they will not do this - why should they make their ranking factors available to the public?
Traffic is not a good factor - currently there's no way to find out traffic for a single PAGE - only estimations for a SITE.
I really hate this type of threads, for such a respected forum, it can confuse people fairly new to seo... This thread should be removed or atleast change the title and first post....
It is an alternative to create your own PR algo and servers. Though it is kind of excessive in comparison to the benefits.
Good! Maybe people will start buying links for traffic instead. PR is meaningless in the CPM model anyway. The real ad buyers are looking at traffic. Gasp! I know. Whodathunk your site would be measured by the real number of people that visit it?
Traffic is the key - TRUE. But the easiest and chepeast way to get traffic is having good positions in SERPs. Good links are the key for good SERP positions so finally PR does matter because it gives kind of trust to my site which helps me climbing up to page 1.
And the moons a balloon The one argument does not necessarily follow the other. Links are good for serp's and PR is good for directory masters with a tail to spin.
Can somebody please clarify: Are Google removing PageRank or not? I really can't be bothered to browse through 7 pages of posts to find a simple yes or no answer.
Utter nonsense. 1) No it wont kill anything, the brainless link marketers will just use some other PR equivalent - if Google dropped it Yahoo or MSN would start using it instantly, but they wont drop it because they know that. And anyway, some non-webmasters also use the PR tool, it could well be a reason for a lot of users to use Google instead of Yahoo etc so I doubt google would be silly enough to dump it. Most of the traffic does come from Google now, which is why they wont monkey around with how it works because they would like to keep it that way.
Right now I would go for the PR1 link. There is no difference to the link strength as far as the serp's are concerned and I would be concerned about the PR7 site making it though to the next update. Who buys PR7 these days? Is Google going to pull the plug on PR? They already have but I doubt we will see the demise of the little bar, replaced maybe but its never going to be the same again.
Google is replacing pagerank with PigeonRankâ„¢ It must be true because it is on Google http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html