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What is Google Page Rate? are its differ with Google page rank?

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Short answer: there is no official Google metric called “PageRate” — the correct, historic term is PageRank. was right to separate the idea of Google’s internal PageRank from the little public “green bar” score people used to see. PageRank itself (the algorithm described by Larry Page and colleagues) is the original link‑based ranking idea. (en.wikipedia.org)

To clear up the toolbar confusion mentioned by several posters: the public Toolbar PageRank (the 0–10 value many SEOs chased) was only a crude, externally visible snapshot and was updated very infrequently. The community saw a surprise update in December 2013, and Google fully removed the public/toolbar PageRank data in 2016 — but the underlying link‑based signals continued to be used internally. That’s why the toolbar number became both stale and misleading over time. (seroundtable.com)

The “PageRate” posts you found are just a rumor/noise — Google did not rename PageRank to PageRate. What Google did do (and has long warned about) is clamp down on paid links that try to pass value, and it has encouraged use of rel="nofollow" or other disclosure methods for paid links. See Google’s webmaster guidance and Matt Cutts’ posts on paid links for the policy background; those explain why some sites saw visible PR drops when selling links. Also note John Mueller’s later confirmations that PageRank‑style signals are still one part of many internal signals. (webmasters.googleblog.com)

Practical takeaway: ignore “PageRate” and ignore toolbar PR if you see it mentioned. Focus on useful signals you can control: high‑quality content, honest editorial links, good site architecture, and metrics in Search Console / analytics. Those actions produce real, measurable ranking improvements long after toolbar pixels became history. (searchengineland.com)

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Member Avatar for Dani

There's no such thing as google page rate. Just google page rank. (Contrary to popular belief, it was actually named after Google co-founder Larry Page).

There are two types of page rank - Internal PR and Toolbar PR. Internal PR is the secret Google algorithm that ranks every webpage and contributes to how sites rank in the SERPS. Toolbar PR is what Google lets us who download the Google browser toolbar see in the form of little green pixels. It's either outdated or Google is just feeding us what they want us to think or who knows what ... it is rather meaningless nowadays.

Member Avatar for amnezia

Ehmm yups, but looking up in Google Search engine with keyword "Google PageRate" or "Google Page Rate" i found some article about it and confusing me..........

Member Avatar for Dani

You'll have to link me to specific examples because I'm not sure what you're referring to.

Member Avatar for tamar

I think the person who wrote about Page Rate was a little confused. ;)

Member Avatar for Dani

I've never heard of that before and the page the article refers to appears to be broken.

Member Avatar for stymiee

It's something that author made up.

Member Avatar for ithelp

No google is removing page rank concept, and are going to replace with page rate concept.
As many high page rank people were selling links(without nofollow tag) for very high price
and google was passing the page rank to people who were buying links from high page rank sites.

You can read mattcutt's blog(google employee) to find out google is coming strongly after people who sells links without nofollow as well as who buys link for getting better page rank.

Member Avatar for neuronimbus

I totally agree with cscgal here.. there is nothing like PageRate in Google.

Member Avatar for tamar

I don't buy it. My thoughts:

1. The person wants to make up a story to get traffic. Don't give it to them!

2. Larry Page will never want to get rid of PageRank. Sure, people have wanted to get rid of it for ages, but it's a big part of Google's brand even though it is pretty much useless to the rest of the world.

3. This isn't the first time I've heard this rumor. It's also not the last.

I love how a no-name blog "broke" the story. That explains everything in a nutshell.

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I agree with your point #2, Tamar. We already know that Google is pushing false results out with their PR toolbar and they certainly don't want webmasters to follow it because it contributes too much towards paid links. The only reason I can think of them not getting rid of it entirely is because it's a big part of Google's brand and because the webmaster community seems to be able to accept the fact that it's fake/stale data but wouldn't be able to accept it disappearing from the toolbar completely.

Member Avatar for amnezia

TQ for your detailed explanation about this rumor, i ve thought google page rank is the heart of google. :-D

Member Avatar for merryclark

I have never heard this term. May be the author just coined it ;)

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