Google Pagerank Worthless!!

Xavier_3D · # 1 (**permalink**)

Well I have been doing a little research on the internet with regard to this Title and my findings were indeed those that I had already predicted.

The REAL Pagerank that the google staff manages may have some worth but the online tools available these days are should I say Worthless.

Proof: This Article by Diane M. Aull of NineYards.com Published at Guruknowledge.org holds substantial evidence to my research.

Toolbar PR is rarely updated.

"Real" PR fluctuates constantly. Toolbar PR is only updated a few times a year — and when it’s updated, there’s no way of telling whether the updated number was based on the "real" PR from yesterday, last month, or sometime last year.
Toolbar PR is (at best) a rough approximation.

"Real" PR is a fractional number somewhere between zero and one. Toolbar PR is a whole number between zero and ten. Google has never told anyone how they handle rounding issues. So, for instance, if the "real" PR is, say, .451, would the Toolbar PR be rounded down to 4, or rounded up to 5? If we assume that it would round up to 5, what would happen if the "real" PR dropped to .449? Would the Toolbar PR stay at 5, or would the change of .002 in the "real" PR cause the Toolbar PR to apparently drop all the way down to 4? Nobody (outside of Google) knows for sure.
Toolbar PR may, in fact, be a made-up number.

"Real" PR is based on links. Nothing more, nothing less. But what is Toolbar PR based on? Many people seem to assume it’s based in some way on the "real" PR. But to my knowledge no one from Google has actually said this is true. Without access to the "real" PR numbers for verification, we have no way of knowing where the Toolbar PR number comes from. For all we can prove, it might as well be randomly generated.

Worrying about changes in the Toolbar PR number is a waste of time and energy that could better be spent on more productive activities. While "real" PR is used by Google, the Toolbar PR number has nothing whatsoever to do with your page’s rankings. Nothing. It is — at best — a rough estimate of what your "real" PR might have been at some indeterminate point in the past, and is totally unconnected with any of the ranking algorithms.
In any case, to my mind, focusing on "improving PR" as a goal is misguided (especially if you’re talking about Toolbar PR, but even if you’re talking about "real" PR):

Since we don’t know what the "real" PR number is, we have no way of measuring the success (or lack therof) of any efforts we might make.
Since PR is only one of many factors used to determine a page’s position in the search results, increasing the PR may or may not have any actual effect on rankings.
Even if our efforts are successful in increasing a page’s PR, what tangible benefit will this bring to the business? No one I know has yet been able to pay their electric bill with PR.

More Links
Why Google PageRank Doesn't Matter
PageRank is Dead (by Jeremy Zawodny)
Brain Handles » Blog Archive » Google: Is Page Rank Dead?

My Conclusion to this Research.

PR does not carries much Value as the algorithms used online are not should we say 'efficient' in keeping to the standards of the Google itself. The update goes On and On every minute, and we get updates every 6 Months (When the staff actually bothers to update the actual Google Toolbar). So in my opinion its characteristic significance for Link Exchange and Link Building to achieve good SEO Rankings is dieing away.

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Armaan143 · # 2 (**permalink**)

Nice info mate.

But it still worth.

Google is biggest search engine and most of people use it. If you have higher PR then google will crawls it more often and you will see more and updated result of your site in search.

Google is internet giant. Its each single things worth.

Xavier_3D · # 3 (**permalink**)

I agree with that Armaan, but I am just suggesting that the way we take PR is worthless. Page Rank itself is really helpful. But buying links on High PR Sites, that is what I don't believe in anymore, because its really fluctuating.