Google’s famous algorithmic metric – PageRank has finally updated. Our team has noticed sporadic updates in January following with a more broad burst around the 20th of January. Google decides to push out the Toolbar PageRank values to public after a long waiting period.

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Despite many claims by SEO companies around the world that PageRank does not “work” anymore, we see Google employees mentioning it over and over again in articles, blogs and videos. Webmasters have been wondering about Google’s intentions around PageRank due to the fact that the last public update was back in April 2010.

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Group of Eight (http://www.go8.edu.au) is likely to be the only Australian website with Google PageRank 10. The extremely high PageRank is explained by the fact that it’s linked from the eight of the strongest Australian universities. For a while now this site has been a target of various organisations trying to get in, however this year it has been under repetitive attack of blackhat SEOs and hackers.

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In this session Dan goes over most interesting aspects of Google PageRank and explains how it all works.

Hi everyone, today we are discussing the topic of PageRank. PageRank is Google’s measure of importance of a particular page on the internet.

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Google’s PageRank rating is a huge obsession for many SEO professionals, and yet, it is not nearly the most important factor in determining a page or site’s ranking in the Google index. There is a lot of great information about the how pages are ranked in this video on the Google Webmaster Help YouTube channel.

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Nofollow links seem to be a common area of discussion around SEO, and specifically the subject of several videos from the Google Webmaster YouTube Help channel. After a number of repetitive questions, Matt Cutts decided to try to make Google’s position on nofollow tags a bit clearer in this video.

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Recently, Google’s Matt Cutts talked about PageRank sculpting and mentioned something which shattered many people’s PageRank sculpting theories and practices. He explained that using the HTML nofollow attribute to prevent search engine web crawlers from going to unimportant parts of a website, like a privacy policy, does not give you a higher ranking on the other pages on your site.

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Understanding Google’s PageRank (PR) system is a major obstacle for many aspiring webmasters who are trying to get their new website ranked well in Google so that they get more visitors. Google only lets the public know a little bit about its ranking system in order to keep spammers from attempting to cheat the system and get their sites artificially ranked well.

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