Quote from: dirtyfilthy on March 20, 2011, 10:46:01 PM

I'll pledge another ten bitcoins per >3 page ranked site.

Isn't pagerank dead?

Hi all,
I fully understand not wanting to give out a prize to shops created overnight but google has basically abandoned pagerank (so we think) and a more nuanced judgement would be better.

But I realise that it would probably be too much trouble as you may not have another metric on hand.

I own a 6 year old PR2 ranked shop. Was PR3 at some point in 2007 then when down to 2 for reasons that only google knows.**

From the horses mouth:

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We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. :-)

Susan Moskwa Google Employee
October 15, 2009

source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=6a1d6250e26e9e48

Just my 0.02 BTC,
-e.

**May or may not be related to the installation of what I thought at the time was a cute tool displaying what city visitors were coming from which I learned later created a lot of crappy backlinks.
Anyhoo since then google said over and over that pagerank no longer had any value. It's time has gone.