Google finally decided to throw webmasters a bone and updated the toolbar pagerank. After six months without it, the masses were growing restless. But what does it all mean?
NOTHING!
That being said, I'm glad it's here because I rely on the toolbar pagerank as one of the criteria used with SEO clients. While SERPs are more important to me (and my clients), if the clients don't see increased pagerank, they start to wonder about my abilities.
Just thought I'd share some of the success stories in my SEO journey, which only began six months ago (about the time of the previous toolbar update).
- My primary site is now a pagerank of 5. I only started serious SEO on it in May, so that's pretty good. What's even better is that I'm ranking in the top ten for about 15 good keywords.
- I have over 20 clients with sites that have a pagerank of 4. All of them rank in the top ten for their primary keywords (some less competitive than others).
- Over 100 of my clients have sites with pageranks of 3. Nearly all of them rank in the top ten for their keywords (some are still works in progress).
I've even started my own . I'm sharing some of what I've learned for beginners on the site, and even though it's still in it's infancy, I would love for anyone who wants to contribute articles to the site to do so. You can contact me through the site itself.
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Situation One is the same thing as Situation Two.
Situation One:
Football fan says: "I don't like the Patriots because they cheat".
What Football Fan really means: "I don't like the Patriots because they kicked my team's ass this year, last year and five years before that".
Situation Two:
Google says: "We don't like paid links because they invalidate our page ranking system".
What Google really means: "We don't like paid links because people are making money without using our products"
It's the same thing...uncanny!
I truly think that Google wants to invalidate paid links because of what they do to its ranking system.
But... I can guarantee the bean counters have had their input.