confirmed<\/a> that they will never update the PageRank again. PageRank is now completely dead.<\/p>\nNot too long ago, Google PageRank (PR) used to be one of the most important search engine signal for many bloggers and website owners. People used to obsess about the PageRank their website would wear.<\/p>\n
Inbound links were largely dependent on the PageRank of websites. Because of the fact that PR (or PageRank) was directly associated with the authority of a website, it was frequently leveraged by link-sellers for exploitation purposes.<\/p>\n
Another common phenomenon was the buying and selling of external links for SEO purposes. Many website owners and professional bloggers used to buy high-PR links in order to take over their competitors in the search engine results pages (SERPs).<\/p>\n
However, all that fun is now obsolete. What used to be a huge factor in the search engine optimisation world is now a mere chapter in SEO\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
It is interesting to see how Google will adjust its strategy to weight inbound links as search engine ranking signals. It may end up becoming a part of the overall search engine ranking algorithm \u2014 with no explainable definition. But until we have a clear confirmation, we will keep our fingers crossed.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see how webmasters \u2014 who once used to obsess over the quality of inbound links coming from websites with different PageRanks \u2014 react to this news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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