So how did your site do on the recent page rank update?

[Inhibitor]

Originally Posted by bbrian017

I read Page Rank is a rank of how well our website index’s in Google’s Search Engines. Also I have read that it’s partially to do with backlinks we get from other websites. I also read this is being stopped and isn’t affecting our page rank no longer is that true?

Unfortunately, the only answer to that entire passage is "Yes...maybe."

According to Google, PR is a mark of a website's relevancy to its subject matter (hence the witch hunt against paid links...at least from Google's point of view....here's what Google's Matt Cutts had to say about selling links that pass PR, where he explains why it's bad for relevancy.)

The bottom line is this...while most people are fairly sure that backlinks (and the quality, or PR, of those backlinks) play a large role in your PR (especially since, at the link above, a Google representative felt the need to explain why "selling links that pass PR" is wrong, meaning that links pass PR...or at least did at the time of that post)...no one knows. Google plays it tight to the vest to avoid giving too many hints that could lead to ways to game the system.

Bottom line...the Google algorithm is a constant work-in-progress. What's true now might not be true tomorrow.

[neutralizer]

My antioxidants blog went from PR3 to PR4.

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by neutralizer

My antioxidants blog went from PR3 to PR4.

Congrats!

Originally Posted by Inhibitor

Unfortunately, the only answer to that entire passage is "Yes...maybe."

According to Google, PR is a mark of a website's relevancy to its subject matter (hence the witch hunt against paid links...at least from Google's point of view....here's what Google's Matt Cutts had to say about selling links that pass PR, where he explains why it's bad for relevancy.)

The bottom line is this...while most people are fairly sure that backlinks (and the quality, or PR, of those backlinks) play a large role in your PR (especially since, at the link above, a Google representative felt the need to explain why "selling links that pass PR" is wrong, meaning that links pass PR...or at least did at the time of that post)...no one knows. Google plays it tight to the vest to avoid giving too many hints that could lead to ways to game the system.

Bottom line...the Google algorithm is a constant work-in-progress. What's true now might not be true tomorrow.

Very good point and well said!