Comments on: Google Pagerank Updates Too Harsh?

By: Dave (The Other One)

Dave (The Other One) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:45:19 +0000

I don’t think Google Pagerank matters anymore and for the most part Google search is irrelevant for getting quality traffic to your blog or site.

Most webmasters have already learned that being active in forums and commenting on quality blogs brings them more high quality traffic and returning traffic than Google or Yahoo ever will turn you. Plus 90% of search engine traffic will “bounce” at a much higher rate than traffic from social networking.

SEO is dead, Google killed it, long live Social Networking.

By: Evan W.

Evan W. — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:47:38 +0000

They probably weren’t acquiring enough new inbound links! And/or posting enough quality content on their site frequently enough.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:39:15 +0000

Yeah, I’ve read all of the other stories Carsten. I was interested in what the readers at ReveNews thought about it, which is why I posed the questions here. I have my own answers already

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:34:10 +0000

Okay, link is gone, here it is again. If that does not work, click on my name, I used it for my sig. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-drops-pagerank-for-many-sites-paid-links-or-new-algorithm/5890/

By: Carsten Cumbrowski

Carsten Cumbrowski — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:28:43 +0000

You might want to check this post at SEJ by Loren and also the 28+ comments to it. It’s very helpful to understand what this means and what it does NOT mean.

By: Sam Harrelson

Sam Harrelson — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:34:35 +0000

PageRank doesn’t matter anymore. The only people overly concerned with it are the people who got slapped in this latest update… and it seems like the only people giving it relevance are those who “optimize” themselves into a slap.