PageRank
Google Toolbar PageRank officially goes dark
A month or so after Google told us they would be removing the 1-to-10 PageRank scores from their toolbar feeds, they removed it this past...
RIP Google PageRank score: A retrospective on how it ruined the web
While Google will remove PageRank scores from public view in the coming weeks, the way those scores dramatically reshaped the web will remain....
Google has confirmed it is removing Toolbar PageRank
It's official: Google has decided to kill off Toolbar PageRank from its...
Google Toolbar PageRank Finally & Officially Dead?
In October 2013, Google head of search spam Matt Cutts implied we would likely not see another Google Toolbar PageRank update before the year...
Google’s Matt Cutts: One Page With Two Links To Same Page; We Counted The First Link
Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts posted a video today answering how does Google handle one page that has two links pointing to the...
Infographic: The Biggest Changes To Google Search In 2013
What were some of the biggest changes to Google Search in 2013, in terms of how its search algorithms ranked and displayed information? How...
Google Toolbar PageRank Lives On With The First Update In Over 10 Months
Google has updated the Toolbar PageRank values this morning, despite Google’s Matt Cutts implying the update would not happen again within...
Down With Toolbar PageRank And Up With… What?
I’ve never been a big fan of Google’s Toolbar PageRank (TBPR) because, as you may know, it’s a metric that isn’t updated...
Why No PageRank Update? The “Pipeline” Is Broke & Google Isn’t Interested In Fixing It
We already knew Google wasn’t likely to update the PageRank meter in the Google Toolbar this year. The head of Google’s web spam...
Google’s Matt Cutts: No More PageRank Updates This Year
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, said on Twitter yesterday that Google won’t be pushing out a new Google Toolbar PageRank...
Google’s Matt Cutts: NoFollow Attributes On Internal Links Don’t Hurt But Generally Don’t Do It
In a video, Google’s head of search spam Matt Cutts published today an answer to the question, “Should I use...
How Search Engines Work — Really!
For those of us in SEO (or aspiring to be), there are a lot of little details that fill our days. Server architecture, 301 redirects, 404...
Is PageRank Finally Dead? It Seems To Be, At Least In The Google Toolbar
Want to know what the PageRank of a page is? The ability to easily do this using the Google Toolbar has gotten harder over the years, with the...
SMX West: The Search Police Video With Google’s Matt Cutts & Bing’s Duane Forrester
One of the highlights from the SMX West show a week ago was the session named “The Search Police: Matt & Duane’s Excellent...
Google Dishes Out PageRank Penalties To UK Newspaper Web Sites For Selling Links
Google has downgraded the Toolbar PageRank scores for several dozen UK operated newspapers and news sites today. It is believed the reason...
Google On Will They Ever Remove PageRank From The Google Toolbar?
Google’s head of search spam, Matt Cutts, posted a video on YouTube named Why don’t you turn off the PageRank feature in the Google...
Google Continues to Encourage Site Owners to Think Beyond PageRank
The latest blog post from Google Webmaster Central remind site owners what many of us have been saying for years: The Google Toolbar PageRank...
Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped
Speaking today at SMX West in Santa Clara, Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs...
What Is A Link Worth? Part 1: Valuing PageRank
This posting is the first in an occasional series that will attempt to quantify the value of links - in this case, by measuring the value of...
Has Google Maps Switched From PageRank to “BizRank”?
For those of us who work in local search optimization, it's clear that Google PageRank is less and less important as a factor in result...