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Ajde napokon da netko potvrdi i moje nauke – Google PageRank je totalno nebitan broj.

Pročitah upravo članak da Google izbacuje PageRank™ iz Webmaster Toolsa. Susan Moskwa, Googleova zaposlenica, odgovara na Google Webmaster Central forumu zabrinutom webmasteru koji je primjetio da je nestala statistika o raspodjeli PageRanka™ u Webmaster Toolsu, i kaže mu ovako:

We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it’s the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it.

I uz to navodi referencu na odgovoreno pitanje “My site’s PageRank has gone up / gone down / not changed in months!“:

Don’t worry. In fact, don’t bother thinking about it. We only update the PageRank displayed in Google Toolbar a few times a year; this is our respectful hint for you to worry less about PageRank, which is just one of over 200 signals that can affect how your site is crawled, indexed and ranked. PageRank is an easy metric to focus on, but just because it’s easy doesn’t mean it’s useful for you as a site owner. If you’re looking for metrics, we’d encourage you to check out Analytics, think about conversion rates, ROI (return on investment), relevancy, or other metrics that actually correlate to meaningful gains for your website or business.

I na kraju jedan važan citat od Andija Beala:

This really leads you to conclude that role of PageRank has been reduced to nothing more than a comfort blanket for SEO noobs.

Ne znam zašto ali ljudi me često popljuju kada kažem da je PageRank™ bezvezan broj, ili mi malo blaže pokušavaju objasniti da nije tako nebitan kako mislim, da ima u njemu neki važan pokazatelj. Meni je važan pokazatelj to da imam sajt koji ima PR3 i 25 000 35 000 80 000 posjetitelja dnevno (koji je btw na prodaju, hrvatski sajt ;)) ili da imam sajt sa 8 000 ljudi dnevno koji ima PR1. I onda netko tko ima PR6 sajt sa 100 posjetitelja dnevno ide mene učit da je PageRank jako bitan – yeah right!