google pagerank demoted
 

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...it's pretty true. thanks for sharing

SIG SPOT! Link seller will go bankrupt!!! Mouhahaha

Many people here need to read this thread. Lots of "SEO" experts here live and breathe pagrank.

~Ray

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interesting turn of events. I never really placed much weight on pagerank myself.

dang, now that toolbar is useless...

I've always put more effort into building relevant links in than PR.

"never believe shit Google tells you"

Oh wait, except now, now believe it.

:1orglaugh

oh but how now am I suppose to sell pr 4 links in bulk to n00bs?!?! :)

Don't worry, nothing has changed. All that articles says is that its been removed from google webmaster tools where it lists your sites highest PR pages.

I've had my PR 3 sites go to PR 0 and back to PR 2 with no loss of traffic, or any change in keywords...

Pagerank is retarded and the people who preach it are retarded as well.

I stopped paying attention once they capped the PR of porn sites

Yeah this is true as well... the cap is pr4 or pr3.. I can't remember which it is.. not that I really care anyways.

No such thing exists.

I'm offering a discount on my pr5 domain if anyone wants to buy it

Yah I dumped my Google tool bar early this year :thumbsup

Show me a PR8 porn site. Seriously... because no such thing exists. :2 cents:

pr3, pr4, pr8

So which one is it?

I never said there was a PR8 porn site, what I said is that there is no 'cap' on Page Rank for adult sites as you so 'matter of factly' stated.

I agree that there is a cap on porn sites. I think they needed it in some algos

Well I can tell you it's not 4 and it's not 3.

:2 cents::pimp

Pagerank always sucked.
I have a forum and most forum's will have more outgoing than incoming links.
So I have thousands of pages indexed, and nice traffic. But google still says it's a pagerank 2.
Pagerank is only nice-to-have if you are selling something, like hardlinks.

PR is not sending traffic

It's 5

But doesn't matter a whole lot anyway :2 cents:

I stopped caring about pagerank when the tables turned on PR to traffic ratio (if that makes sense)

When I first started building sites, the one's with higher PR had Higher traffic, now it seems pretty much round the other way with a few excemptions.

Haven't checked my Pageranks for ages.........

Pretty much true..more or less the only reason I have it installed.

Do not see many pr5 adult sites around. I had a pr4 but it dropped down, meh.

Links are not just for PR, I think that is secondary, links are for relevancy and link popularity... if you have good content, and a popular site with good links, you might become more and more authoritative in G terms, so you will get better serps and consequently more traffic and $ ( this in response to the " linksellers are dead now " )

:2 cents::thumbsup:2 cents:

it does serve some use. i use it daily. i hope they don't do away with it.

I don't put that much weight Into It.

So if you buy a backlink and the PR is 0 or the toolbar is grayed-out does that mean the link is still good? Will google recognize that link coming into your site?

I believe that link would still be good. Think of what would happen in real life ( without any SEO working for a site, buying or getting links etc ) you could not prevent people with small, or new sites from linking to you ( how could you? ) Imho having a % of pr0 links is healthy and makes the site look natural. G hates patterns and I think their algo is not a simple 100 pr4, 2000 pr2, 10000 pr1 ;) What gives a site authority is a combination of things.

I would watch for banned sites, etc, but shouldn´t be ultra strict about it either, to preserver the " natural " appearance of the site. Also when buying links one has to be able to poderate the potential, if it is a pr0 with lots of potential, I would pay good money for it, if it is just a flat pr0 no traffic, etc then it would be a different price and so on.

That is why it gets difficult to price links individually, you have to consider traffic, age, link pop, serp, pr, and am sure other things too.

google says it doesnt mean anything but they dont completely remove it and its still the case that the biggest sites have the highest pr and the smallest the lowest.... how is that for 'it doesnt mean anything'? Funny.

naughty.com is a pr7

you guys are all lunatics... and seem to have no idea what pagerank even is, what it measures, how its used or why it will always be important.

most of us spend our time getting search engine ranks rather than getting hung-up on pagerank.

~Ray

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they haven't updated page rank for along time. i think they might be killing it.

i mean public displays of it. page rank will always be the basis of their algo. of course those who fail at google always say different as well as mainstream seo hucksters.