PageRank = Quality?

As you may have seen in my two previous post I aimed a spoof directly at the PageRank crowd. The amount of traffic I had visit those two post was insane, more than triple my daily uniques to my entire website.

It just goes to show how much emphasis webmasters put on PageRank. I can't lie and say I don't look forward to seeing if my PageRank will increase as each update approaches. It's just one tool that let's you know that your website promotion and hard work are realizing results.

But...

I would also like to mention that PageRank is not the holly grail for webmasters. I really think to many people get caught up worrying about their websites current or future PageRank. I do think that PageRank may be more important of a factor to some websites than others because of their niche. That being said it still does not determine the quality of your website.

Search engine rankings and traffic should be the number one priority on your list. If you had the choice of a PR6 website with 50 uniques a day or a PR0 website with 1000 uniques a day which would you choose?

I know that I am choosing the website with good traffic hands down. I can make a website with a PageRank of 0 and traffic much more profitable than one that is PR6 with no traffic.

Isn't money the reason why most of you create websites?

I think a lot of webmasters including myself should focus on driving more traffic and raising our serps. My personal goal for the next 4 months it to target the phrase "Business Directory" and move from the second page to the 1st for "web directory".

Spoof Experiment, Did You Notice?

Some of you may have noticed an odd post that was made yesterday. It appeared that Google had put out a press release regarding the current delay of the PageRank update.

Now some of you are smart as a whip and noticed right off the bat that this was a spoof as you should have. There were mistakes that were intentionally left in the photo to "create a buzz" and to see who was paying attention and who was not.

I monitered all the forums and blogs as the post were made regarding the spoof release. Belive it or not there where actually quite a few post made that had everyone thinking this was a real Google release despite the obvious errors.

As the errors were picked up by members I would correct them and add NEW errors. There are still a few errors that have not been found! Now this is where you the webmaster with the eagle eye can put your skills to the test and try to find them.

There are 4 errors left.

Each error is worth one free permanent FEATURED review on www.danielmillions.com directory (95.00 Dollar Value)

Who ever makes the first post in regards to a specific error will get the featured review.

**There are still gramitical and spelling errors these do not count towards the 4 errors that are still unrevealed.

So let's see what you can find!

Google Pagerank Update | News

Finally we get an official release from Google concering the Pagerank update. Also some good information about the new algorithm changes that are going on.

"It has come to our attention that there is a widespread outbreak of concerned webmasters talking about the future of the Google PageRank system. The delay
as many have called it of the PageRank update is nothing of the sort. There are certain circumstances that have caused the present update to take longer to propagate than past updates.

New search engine algorithm changes are taking place which have affected the PageRank update. We recommend that all webmasters and website visitors in general continue on with business as usual. The PageRank update will occur when the new algorithm changes are fully functional and pass quality assurance checks.

On a side note the new algorithm changes consist of new filters to block automated spam websites. We are also focusing on websites that blatantly sell text links with the sole intention of boosting a specific websites PageRank. There are several factors that will be used to help us determine if a website is selling text links to boost the linked websites PageRank. Websites that are flagged for selling text links will receive an immediate drop in PageRank viewable by the Google PageRank tool bar, search engine rankings will suffer and the website will be removed from our index. Most live websites that are currently going to be effected by this have already realized at least two of the penalties above. Services that offer a fee to review a website based on it's content will not be penalized for doing so as it helps the indexing process.

We recommend that you follow the Google webmaster guidelines to prevent your website from being penalized."

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