Live PageRank Dead or Changing
Live PageRank
Live PageRank, a popular tool among Search Engine Optimizers and Website Designers, has either shut down or is being updated.
Ever since Google began updating the PageRank on their toolbar every 3 months instead of every month, people have tried to guess their "current" or "live PageRank". Someone quickly realized that included in Google's results there was a tag call <rk> which seemed to reflect current PageRank. Many tools have been created around this "Live PageRank".
However as seen above, today this Live PageRank reads 0 for every site accross every datacenter. I don't know if this has anything to do with the final BigDaddy Switchover that will change the infrastructure of the Google core network or as Matt Cutts puts it:
Bigdaddy is a software upgrade to Google’s infrastructure that provides the framework for a lot of improvements to core search quality in the coming months.
Either way, changes are afoot and SEO's should be aware so they can react accordingly.
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"Live PageRank Dead or Changing"
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AHFXStudios
Live PageRank is DEAD.
Q: "Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again?"
A: I wouldn't expect to see the RK parameter have a non-zero value again.
Q: What's an RK parameter?
A: It's a parameter that you could see in a Google toolbar query. Some people outside of Google had speculated that it was live PageRank, that PageRank differed between Bigdaddy and the older infrastructure, etc.
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sbmarketing
I heard rumor that google may be going to a live page rank soon. Is this true?
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AHFX Web Design
I highly doubt you will ever see a "live" pagerank again from Google (at least not in the foreseeable future.
5
ning
Live pr is great for everybody.I wish google can
put it on toolbar.Not update every 3 months but live!
6
kevin
Hot News!
Google Dance Update.
3 days ago google has started updating data centers. Now some web sites have new page rank.
7
Austin SEO
Austin SEO
[website] It may be dying but even now, there are still many browsers looking for high ranking websites to exchange links with.
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AHFXStudios
Matt Cutts just acknowledged this same issue on his Google Blog.
- Is the RK parameter turned off, or should we expect to see it again?
- What's a RK parameter?
We'll keep you posted on this progress.