Comments on: Q and A: Is Google PageRank Dead?

By: Christian D. H.

Christian D. H. — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:35:52 +0000

I would most def. not conclude that Google Page Rank is dead. It is also a great tool for marketing ones site to advertisers.

By: Eileen - Kite Beach Condo

Eileen - Kite Beach Condo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:56:07 +0000

I agree with Simon… Especially for longtail KWs you can rank high, but hard to move high PR sites, especially fruitless .gov & .edu type.

As to other Authority sites, don’t worry if the domain has millions of links (Squidoo, etc). If the ranked page has no or few inlinks you could outrank it with better onpage and offpage SEO.

What matters too is the PR of the inlinks to a page…
As well as anchor text and the context of the page (to some degree).

By: Simon Byholm

Simon Byholm — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:11:05 +0000

You can rank with a low PR but it’s a lot easier to rank with a high PR. Analyzing the top ten Google positions for a high competition keyword, like “search engine” will reveal that all of the results have a page rank of 7 or higher.

Simon Byholm
CEO and founder,
Secret Search Engine Labs

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:18:33 +0000

I’d agree that links remain a vital for rankings.

But I would say that PageRank is pretty much dead. It’s a poor metric at best because it’s fairly meaningless at the best of times. Outdated by months, updated rarely and with billions of pages online 1-10 just doesn’t really cut it. If anything, the total lack of PageRank might be an indication of a problem, but even that can be little more than a guess. Even then however, I’ve seen pages with no PageRank rank higher in the SERPS than pages with a PageRank of 4 or 5.