Until a couple of years ago, most of the bloggers and webmasters to keep track of their websites page rank almost religiously, and use it for street cred for most situations. PR2 or PR3 was average. PR4 or PR5 was pretty good. PR6 was a pro level, and all of the above, that was reserved for the Internet moguls.
Every three months or so Google should update the nominal page rank, (the one you see in the toolbar or by using the online service), and people go crazy about. People who saw the PR upgrade would celebrate and brag about. Those who got lowered complain bitterly.
Including myself.
I remember one of the update when this blog got a PR7. As you can imagine, I was pretty happy with it. Too bad it didn't last long. The next update, it went to PR6, which I think is the current PR.
In any case, during the course of the year, people began to talk about less PageRank sites, probably because we are beginning to realize that it was just one of hundreds of factors that contributed to the search rankings.
In many situations, it would be difficult to see correlated with at all between the PR and search traffic, we had cases where the site lost most of its PR, even if its search traffic grew.
Last time I checked, the page rank of any of my sites was probably two years ago and I do not understand a lot of people talk about the increase or PageRank updates either.
So my question: we are finally over the PageRank hysteria? Are you still follow it? Have you heard of any updates recently? I would like to know what you think with a comment below.
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