Search Engine Journal is reporting that Google might decide to remove their Google PageRank bar from their Google Toolbar.
These rumors are stemming from a simple WebmasterWorld thread that states that Google’s PageRank displayed on the toolbar faces two main vital flaws:
- They are around 2-3 months out of date.
- The release of PageRank has led to people buying/selling text links based on the toolbar PageRank (a good place would be TextLinkAds).
Even though this is a featured thread on WebmasterWorld, I personally don’t agree with Loren Baker when he said:
It seems that Google is keeping an eye on this one and taking it seriously.
This is mainly because Google, as well as many other people, know that Google has definitely faced similar criticism in the past about their outdated PageRank display. However, it is a good Public Relations stunt (as stated in the main post) that has definitely grabbed the attention of many webmasters
If they are truly a search engine, they would be able to single out the websites that participate in the buying/selling of links and place a penalty on them. I highly doubt that they would remove the PageRank display from their toolbar.
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People give too much credit to PR, thinking that a high PR describes a good site, which is not always true. A good content, links from quality and trusted sites are what should matter.
It’s true that PR from Google toolbar shows me 2-3 months old data. I could recheck the PR of a site if we doubt the button, but most of the time I trust it. The data do not change very fast - not in my sites case at least.
But in the same time, PR tells me how important a page is for Google. So if I do not count PR… how I will realize what is important for Google?
Most of the people just make the PR a base, but honestly I still couldn’t figure out this mystery. One of my site got PR2 just a month after its’ launch when it had only 5 linkbacks, and a very general and limited content. If PR means the importance of that page to google, i’m not sure what are the bases for that importance. I, however, rely much on Google backlinks rather than PR, but do consider PR as well.
I’m not sure what ultimate effect will be there for the removal of PR bar, probably many will start considering other factors instead of just PR.