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Its known fact that Google has now got rid of Page rank option from web master tools. Due to this there is a lot of buzz on twitter about the credibility of page rank in the future ....Hence would love to have Your opinions please ...

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Echoing , and : here is a short, practical playbook to stop chasing a single metric and focus on signals you can measure and act on.

Key signals to monitor (use Google Search Console + analytics):

  • Search Console Performance: impressions, clicks, CTR and average position — filter by page and query to find which content actually drives traffic.
  • Coverage / Indexing & URL Inspection: spot pages that are not indexed or have crawl errors.
  • Links report: count unique referring root domains, inspect the top linking pages and anchor-text distribution.
  • Analytics: organic sessions, engagement (time on page, bounce for context) and goal conversions/assist metrics.
  • UX: mobile usability and Core Web Vitals (loading/interaction/visual stability).

A concise backlink-audit workflow:

  • Export referring domains from Search Console and a backlink tool, dedupe and sort by unique root domains.
  • Evaluate link context: editorial vs sitewide, topical relevance, placement on page.
  • Look for red flags: sudden spikes, lots of footer/sitewide links, directory spam.
  • Remediate: outreach to remove bad links; only use disavow when there is clear spam or a manual action and removal fails.
  • Log decisions and dates so future visibility changes can be correlated to actions.

Reporting and practical priorities:

  • Replace "PR" in reports with actionable KPIs: number of referring root domains, organic visibility (impressions), organic conversions and top landing pages.
  • Run 90-day experiments: refresh high-potential pages, build a small list of relevant outreach targets, fix indexing and speed issues, then measure traffic and conversions.
  • Keep the focus on helping real users and on link quality, not a single score.

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Member Avatar for Wasser

See, we have been talking for a while, even Google don't want us too obsessed with the PR!

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See, we have been talking for a while, even Google don't want us too obsessed with the PR!

Exactly - this is because Google is always updating it's algorithms - making the current PR out-of-date or inaccurate... And more importantly, there are other factors to consider when looking for the quality of a page. For example, instead of solely relying on TBPR (toolbar pagerank), one should look for domain age/trust, freshness of the content, relevancy, and make sure the pages are crawled and listed in Google SERPs.

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PR's been dead a long time. It has no significance in the SERPs anymore. It did once upon a time, for about three months, then it started to get manipulated.

Today, a well-optimized PR1 webpage can beat the crap out of a PR6 webpage vying for the same competitive keyphrase. For obscure keyphrases, I've even seen PR0s beat PR7s. Go figure. PR value doesn't mean a thing, nothing. It's some dinosaur left from after man developed the wheel. It amazes me to no end how some SEOs (well, link strategists) obsess over this and tout their excellence at manipulating this and convince clients that PageRank is the Internet pot of gold.

Hey Google, if you're watching, get rid of PageRank once and for all so we can move on with developing unique, important content. Do like Microsoft is doing!

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