PageRank: more valuable than ever
Now that Google has been so nice as to decrease PageRank for at least a portion of the sites they have identified as selling links, PageRank, and more importanly historical PageRank data, has become very valuable linkbuilding data.
If you know that a site has decreased in visible PageRank, are you going to buy a link there and expose your linkbuying efforts? Or are you going to look for sites who have not had their PageRank lowered to buy your links from? Exactly.
That is why you want to keep track of PageRank for sites you might at some point in time consider buying links on...
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by Remco Westerik on 13 November, 2007 at 12:19
PageRank will be more valuable as a sign of trust worthiness according to Google in general.
Guess you can use it to buy links on high PR sites for traffic purposes with a nofollow attached.
Buying links for SEO purposes on the sites that did not get a lower PR until now, would not be smart at all. Because by selling links, these sites would risk their trust worthiness...
by Joost de Valk on 13 November, 2007 at 12:24
@Remco: well that's true when they get caught :P
by Peter van der Graaf on 13 November, 2007 at 12:36
It is very obvious that Google changed the visible PageRank because they want to give more clarity about the type of links they like or dislike. Hopefully more creative linkbuilders will arise.
by Joost de Valk on 13 November, 2007 at 12:38
Yeah very true, well I've always been creative in link building, so just happy times are ahead ;)
by dave on 13 November, 2007 at 23:00
Dan wrote a nice piece about the pagerank stuff a few days ago http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/why-google-cant-just-dump-pagerank
dave
by Ken Savage on 15 November, 2007 at 17:58
My PR dropped from a 5 to a 3 and my daily Google traffic increase about 20% since then.
Coincidence?
I don't know but I welcome it.
by No1san on 18 November, 2007 at 13:37
So we need a historical pagerankchecker.
i have done a quick search but haven't found one.
Any idea's?
by Rokas on 18 November, 2007 at 20:31
After site shutdown PR changed from 4 to 3, after several days from 3 to 4, and now 3 again but site works fine :/
by Joost de Valk on 18 November, 2007 at 20:42
No1san: well there are a few of us who were wise enough to gather data like that :) Nothing I can expose though...
by No1san on 18 November, 2007 at 20:57
Joost: No problem. Was just looking for some nice free tools with some historical data.
As far as I can see webceo can do the job.
I will test it this week.
by Joost de Valk on 18 November, 2007 at 21:00
Domainer is on my list of apps for the Mac for SEO's and webdevelopers, it can gather all sorts of data for you and keep a history of it on domains.