Google PR not in Webmaster Tools

boblord666 · 10-16-2009, 01:32 AM

Now that Google has seemingly downgraded Google PR by removing it quitely from Webmaster Tools, how do we tell how our sites and other sites are rating?

**~kev~** · 10-16-2009, 07:09 AM

Install the google tool bar - and then go to the site.

I do not ever remember seeing a google page rank section in the webmaster tools. There is a "popularity" chart, but I do not remember seeing anything about page rank.

boblord666 · 10-16-2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ~kev~

Install the google tool bar - and then go to the site.

I do not ever remember seeing a google page rank section in the webmaster tools. There is a "popularity" chart, but I do not remember seeing anything about page rank.

In the Crawl Stats section at the bottom they listed the pages in the site with the highest PR. That disappeared this week.

A quote from an article on Search ENgine Land

"Susan Moskwa from the Google Webmaster Central team explained it was removed because Google keeps telling webmasters “that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much.” They felt it was “silly” to keep telling webmasters that, and at the same time show it in Webmaster Tools. So Google removed it from Webmaster Tools. I think this is a good thing, since I agree it is obsessed over too much, plus what Google showed in Webmaster Tools was not very useful to webmasters."

dWhite · 10-16-2009, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ~kev~

Install the google tool bar - and then go to the site.

I do not ever remember seeing a google page rank section in the webmaster tools. There is a "popularity" chart, but I do not remember seeing anything about page rank.

I have to agree with kev. I don't think Google ever included your PR ranking in the webmaster tools section, considering it's how about your site indexing rather than your PR.

thewebhostingdir · 10-16-2009, 07:12 AM

It seems that Google is updating PR for the last 10 to 15 days. It has been long due. PR8 site has a PR6. PR5 site has a PR3 or PR4.

edosauyi · 10-16-2009, 01:27 PM

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... how do we tell how our sites and other sites are rating?

Apart from webmaster tools, there are many other tools, free tools to check your site ranking. Just use Google to search and you will see a lot of them.

thefandango · 10-17-2009, 11:52 AM

erm... go to the google search page, type in your keyword, and if you are on page one, your site is doing well. Then go to google analytics and check your visitrs and compare this to how many of those visitors signed up, or purchased from you. If its more than 10% you are doing well.

Then forget you ever saw the pointless little PR bar and all the madness and obsession around it. PR means nothing, it is just a way to reassure the dummies that they have not been forgotten.

boblord666 · 10-17-2009, 02:31 PM

PR to me is a good indicator that the website owner thinks enough of his site to go out there and promote it. After all, if the owner can't be bothered promoting it then they themselves mustn't think much of it.

And why would anyone want to have anything to do with a website like that.

hyipcoder · 10-18-2009, 02:30 AM

use firefox plugin searchstatus.. this is also the plugin I am using in fingding dofollow sites..