Well so finally the days of Google Toolbar PageRank are done with. It is dead, gone. You will no longer be able to see that green line that had been a guiding line for many.
Very well described by Danny Sullivan as “the secret sauce that Google used to become the giant of the search world” is gone.
Its end was coming since long back as Google had stopped updating the page rank long back. This PR as it was fondly called was a boon and bane in itself. Many SEO companies relied on it only to show their success stories and many came to an end based on it as well. It was always one of the algo factor,s not the only one but due to its popularity, this green line almost became a lifeline for everyone.
It is been said that now the Page Rank will not show publicly but its calculation will be there at the backend in judging the page importance but what cannot be seen loose importance. So for now and the era of Google Toolbar PageRank has come to an end. May it Rest In Peace; one tool that leads to link frenzy so will the links come to an end. Well, let us leave that discussion for some other day.
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Google PageRank is still one of the methods of measuring the popularity of the website but it is internal now. It is known to Google engineers only.
4 Comments on "Google Toolbar PageRank Is Gone"
Willie Mitchell
April 16, 2016I never valued page rank in recent years my strategy was not to update my blog with edifying material and I was earning good amount from guest posts and ad-words. I believe providing relevant information should be our motive instead of PR DA or any other google factor.
Jesse Munson
April 16, 2016Personally I am very glad to see page rank deprecated as it let us to get our focus back on just on creating informative and good quality content which was also the sole motive of digital world.
Patricia Snyder
April 16, 2016Hi , I just recently read that pagerank is finally gone. as we all know that to get good SE ranking is by getting a link from quality website and that quality was measured by a website Page rank or commonly known as PR that helped me in knowing of the benefit of getting a link from it, if PR is dead, what are the other ways to know if its good to reach out to a website to get link.
Mohnesh
April 17, 2016We all were waiting from a long time. Last few days there were officially announcement by Google for its closer. ON April 15 we see that toolbar page rank is gone. Google not updated from last two year. I think Google know that PR metrics is mostly used for buying and selling of links, blog post etc.Now links buyers will need some other metric like Moz, Majestic or aherf etc. In my opinion moz DA or PA is popular metric in guest blogging and links