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Originally Posted by Babaganoosh
No, THIS is the most asinine statement a person that works online can make. Anyone who believes that pagerank is still even a LITTLE relevant obviously doesn't have enough sites with enough pages online to know better.
Wait, are you selling links? Those that do are foaming at the mouth about how "crucial" pagerank is to their customer's business.  |
think about that for a second genius. all top SEO guys ONLINE buy links. based in large part on ... what factor? Thats right. Everyones spending 100's of millions of dollars or more buying links in mainstream because they're just confused and it doesn't help.
maybe you've got it all figured out. or maybe the idiots making similar statements have zero clue what they're talking about because they don't spend all day, everyday building networks, building links, buying links and going after competitive phrases.
the thing that idiots in this industry don't seem to grasp is that PageRank used to be a stronger factor in a page ranking for all kinds of ancillary bullshit in addition to its primary targeted phrases. now, higher PageRank doesn't automatically equate to more traffic as it did in years past. that doesn't mean its not important. its extremely important and its the single measure of the quality and quantity of inbound links to a page which CAUSE it to rank for ANYTHING REMOTELY COMPETITIVE AT ALL. Its how Google determines whether a page is important or not and to what degree. 0 inbound links = 0 importance. The quality of inbound links are measured almost solely by the PR they pass. Its what Google is. Google IS PageRank. Of course their are other factors. But PageRank is THE factor which drives the search engine. MSN and Yahoo use similar methods as well. Yahoo started with HITS which failed. MSN uses WebRank (i think they call it) which is basically the same thing, measuring the same thing.
Its totally fucking insane to me that people don't even grasp the most fundamental, core concepts of search engines.