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June 30th, on the Google Webmaster blog Susan Moskwa<\/a> talked about how webmasters and site owners should move on beyond measuring site success by the Google Toolbar PageRank. The post explains that Toolbar reported PageRank in NOT the same as their patented algorithm PageRank which determines organic placement.<\/p>\n

Susan tells webmasters:<\/p>\n

“If you look at Google’s Technology Overview<\/a>, you\u2019ll notice that it calls out relevance as one of the top ingredients in our search results. So why hasn’t as much ink been spilled over relevance as has been over PageRank? I believe it\u2019s because PageRank comes in a number, and relevance doesn’t. Both relevance and PageRank include a lot of complex factors\u2014context, searcher intent, popularity, reliability\u2014but it\u2019s easy to graph your PageRank over time and present it to your CEO in five minutes; not so with relevance. I believe the succinctness of PageRank is why it\u2019s become such a go-to metric for webmasters over the years; but just because something is easy to track doesn’t mean it accurately represents what\u2019s going on on your website.” Read the full article.
\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bottom line is that you totally should disregard the Google Toolbar PageRank as an indicator of health or success of your website. Instead you should focus on the following:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Bounce Rate<\/li>\n
  2. Click Through Rate<\/li>\n
  3. Conversion Rate<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A website owner can track all of these metrics using Google Analytics or other premium website statistics program. As Google now only updates the Toolbar PageRank once to twice a year and it is not an accurate representation of what is really happening on your website, now is the time to make a paradigm shift and focus on what is really happening that you can see yourself on a daily basis back on your website using statistics YOU can read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    June 30th, on the Google Webmaster blog Susan Moskwa talked about how webmasters and site owners should move on beyond measuring site success by the Google Toolbar PageRank. The post explains that Toolbar reported PageRank in NOT the same as their patented algorithm PageRank which determines organic placement. Susan tells webmasters: “If you look at Google’s Technology Overview, you\u2019ll notice that it calls out relevance as one of the top ingredients in our search results. So why hasn’t as much ink been spilled over relevance as has been over PageRank? I believe it\u2019s because PageRank comes in a number, and relevance doesn’t. Both relevance and PageRank include a lot of complex factors\u2014context, searcher intent, popularity, reliability\u2014but it\u2019s easy to graph your PageRank over time and present it to your CEO in five minutes; not so with relevance. I believe the succinctness of PageRank is why it\u2019s become such a go-to metric for webmasters over the years; but just because something is easy to track doesn’t mean it accurately represents what\u2019s going on on your website.” Read the full article. The bottom line is that you totally should disregard the Google Toolbar PageRank as an indicator of health or success of your website. Instead you should focus on the following: Bounce Rate Click Through Rate Conversion Rate A website owner can track all of these metrics using Google Analytics or other premium website statistics program. As Google now only updates the Toolbar PageRank once to twice a year and it is not an accurate representation of what is really happening on your website, now is the time to make a paradigm shift and focus on what is really happening that you can see yourself on a daily basis back on your website using statistics YOU can read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,29],"tags":[438,323],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-bright-idea-tips","tag-google","tag-pagerank"],"yoast_head":"\nGoogle: Get Over PageRank - Move On! | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2011\/07\/04\/google-get-over-pagerank-move-on\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google: Get Over PageRank - Move On! | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"June 30th, on the Google Webmaster blog Susan Moskwa talked about how webmasters and site owners should move on beyond measuring site success by the Google Toolbar PageRank. 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