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There is always a lot of Hoopla and Hype about Google Pagerank (PR).  Is Google PageRank worth all the web chatter? I see everyone talking about how important PageRank is, even I am caught up in the PageRank addiction.

I read a comment the other day on a forum and someone posted this comment about PageRank:

“The PageRank you see in the toolbar is a sketchy and stale metric of what a pages PageRank used to be. A simple analogy is getting into your car to go for a drive, knowing that the fuel gauge only shows the amount of fuel that was in your tank 3 months ago. But would you really trust that there is gas in it today?”

In my opinion the green PageRank bar is like your website’s report card.  It won’t help much on its own, but it represents other things about your site.  If a site has a PR7 and is ranking well, it’s not ranking there because of the PageRank itself, but because of what that PageRank represents – Dedicated SEO Work, lots of inbound links, several coming from other quality sites.

So it is not the PageRank that is important, it is what you did to get the PageRank that hold the true value.

I’ll certainly admit that PageRank isn’t as valuable as it once was.  However, it is still reputed to be a small portion of the Google algorithm (along with 100+ other factors), making it not entirely insignificant.  It might not help much, but if it helps at all then it can’t be considered “insignificant”.

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