Comments on: PageRank Update April 2009 http://michael-erickson.com/pagerank-update-april-2009/ New Zealand SEO and Internet Marketing Mon, 03 May 2010 10:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Michael Erickson http://michael-erickson.com/pagerank-update-april-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Michael Erickson Tue, 12 May 2009 10:35:26 +0000 http://michael-erickson.com/?p=53#comment-15 Agreed - the PR data in the toolbar could be several months old, whilst Google is actually updating daily (or faster). However, I feel PR only still holds significance for those in the market of buying and selling domains. I've seen many websites with the "grey bar" ranking 1st for highly competitive phrases. It's a useful gauge, but by no means the complete picture. Agreed – the PR data in the toolbar could be several months old, whilst Google is actually updating daily (or faster).

However, I feel PR only still holds significance for those in the market of buying and selling domains. I’ve seen many websites with the “grey bar” ranking 1st for highly competitive phrases.

It’s a useful gauge, but by no means the complete picture.

]]> By: Dan Roberts http://michael-erickson.com/pagerank-update-april-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Dan Roberts Tue, 12 May 2009 09:38:44 +0000 http://michael-erickson.com/?p=53#comment-14 The other problem with the Page Rank algorithm is that the actual ranking we see in the little toolbar is only updated a few times every year (we have only seen one this year so far). Focusing on the <a href="http://xebidy.com/2008/08/latent-semantic-indexing/" title="Xebidy Web Design Queenstown" rel="nofollow">Latent Semantic Indexing</a> is the way of the future in my opinion. Dan The other problem with the Page Rank algorithm is that the actual ranking we see in the little toolbar is only updated a few times every year (we have only seen one this year so far).

Focusing on the Latent Semantic Indexing is the way of the future in my opinion.

Dan

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