Comments on: Don’t believe the hype — PageRank isn’t completely worthless http://www.mickmelseo.com/20080504/dont-believe-the-hype-pagerank-isnt-completely-worthless/ The most useful SEO and monetization tips I can find Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:01:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Mickey http://www.mickmelseo.com/20080504/dont-believe-the-hype-pagerank-isnt-completely-worthless/#comment-312 Mickey Mon, 05 May 2008 19:28:42 +0000 http://www.mickmelseo.com/?p=74#comment-312 John, Well-said. I thought about covering "real PR vs. TBPR", but decided not to get into it. You said it pretty well, though. :) John,

Well-said. I thought about covering “real PR vs. TBPR”, but decided not to get into it. You said it pretty well, though. :)

]]> By: John Lessnau http://www.mickmelseo.com/20080504/dont-believe-the-hype-pagerank-isnt-completely-worthless/#comment-311 John Lessnau Mon, 05 May 2008 17:19:47 +0000 http://www.mickmelseo.com/?p=74#comment-311 PageRank is not dead. It is a key component of Google's algorithm. What is dead is toolbar pagerank. What shows on the toolbar and what a pages pagerank reall is are two completely different things. The toolbar PR is for fun. Google would never let the real golden goose out of the box but they throw some very skewed numbers out there to mess with uninformed link buyers who think TBPR still matters. PageRank is not dead. It is a key component of Google’s algorithm. What is dead is toolbar pagerank. What shows on the toolbar and what a pages pagerank reall is are two completely different things.

The toolbar PR is for fun. Google would never let the real golden goose out of the box but they throw some very skewed numbers out there to mess with uninformed link buyers who think TBPR still matters.

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