There is NOT a PR Update going on!

To me, it would be funny. How many webmasters will forget to change the link exchange page... 'We will only accept links on a PR 4 or higher page...'
When it would probably be equal to about a 40...

Post 200.

 

Did anyone notice that the PR toolbar is greyed out? It's not a 0 it's just greyed out on all the sites I look at. Anyone know what's going on?

[Just kidding, it's been a while since someone asked that, so I thought I'd throw it in ]

I'm sorry to see it go only because it's allowed me to see how well my main site has grown. We were a 5 (which was quite an amazing feat considering where it started) before it mysteriously went grey. Now it will be interesting to see what they do next, regarding either A) What replaces it or B) If they replace it.

I wondered for the longest time what the purpose of it was, since I noticed that sites with a lower page rank came up before mine which had a higher page rank. It's like many people here have said, aside from the DMOZ directory (which is impossible to get into since I've applied four times in the past year and haven't been added) it didn't seem to matter much on the Google results. Hopefully they replace it with something that rewards those of us who try to rank high legitimately, instead of having to do the nonsense that other sites seem to do to rank higher. The worst part is being outranked by sites have nothing to do with what their keywords claim they are. Hopefully this next plan (if there is one) works better.

Ian

 

Ian, start at page one of this thread, and when you get back to where you are right now, you will know everything...

 

LOL....read the rest of my post, I've been reading every one of them. It's just been about 30 pages since someone threw that in there

 

hahaha, I just updated my toolbar for IE, I read this (remember, this is a *new* feature:


The advanced features for the Google Toolbar 3.0 are PageRank, AutoLink, SpellCheck, and WordTranslator.

The PageRank button indicates the PageRank for the page you're currently viewing. PageRank is the importance Google assigns to a page based on an automatic calculation of factors such as the link structure of the web. For more information on PageRank, please visit http://www.google.com/technology/index.html

That to me indicates that PR will be back. However, I feel their will be significant changes made to it.

 

omigod! Ian's right! It IS gone!!!

 

In Russian SE yandex.ru there was analogue PR - the weighed index of citing and it was cleaned one year ago and have replaced with a thematic index of citing SEO have not died and work on reference

 

Wow, greenwood, sure wish i knew what it was you just said.

 

Run it throught Google's Russian translator, I'm sure all will be revealed. Or on second thought just wait until Minstrel show up, he has infinite insight into Greenwood's posts.

 

He said there are ways of estimating PR using backlinks and relevance (I think - theme?) and that without Toolbar PR the SE spammers are still hard at work using other methods like that one.

 

Very good Minstrel. You do have insight. I would never have gotten it.

 

Well for what it is worth - extremely little probably - the other people who put their money where their mouth is when assessing Google (stock traders), voted the PR removal(?) riddle a non-event. GOOG in Frankfurt closed up EUR6.8 at EUR 217.50 (= appx. $271 vs. US close Friday of $266), on all of 2600 shs.(i.e., equivalent to about 0.005% of Compar's and Minstrel's holdings) - exceptionally light volume as both the US and UK markets are closed today. Tomorrow will obviously be a truer test whether Mr. Market thinks this matters a damn.

 

I do not think that absence PR is a struggle with SEO At SEO many other indicators of ranging of documents though absence PR will complicate work during first time

 

I think he means:
(Correct me if you need, GreenWood)
There was a directory similar to the google directory, showing a weighted index similar to PageRank. It was removed a year ago, but SEO firms are still submitting to it and using it to find links because it is still important.

 

It is a little not so: there was a weighed index of citing (analogue PR), and have replaced with a thematic index of citing that is already far not PR, but nevertheless have got used to work on return references

 

I don't know if the traders have any idea what is going on with PR...

 

I don't think the traders know what PR is, or very likely that it even exists, let alone what's going on with it!!

 

Who matters?

 

This from GG on WMW. . The disappearing PR mystery is solved. .

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum80/934-13-30.htm

 

could they be faster?