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Originally Posted by Webnauts
That is not 100% correct. For sure there are sites will lower PR and rank higher that others with higher PR. But that does not mean that PR has nothing to do with the search results.
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I couldn't agree more. It may appear that PageRank is not a contributing factor but that is likely because PageRank is only 1 of ~200 ranking factors.
I did an experiment though where I essentially wiped out the PageRank contribution of two of the most important pages of the site, at the time. Not only did a large number of pages initially fall into Supplemental and eventually become deindexed but of the pages that remained in the Main index, their positions in the SERPs, which up to that point hadn't varied more than a slot or two, all dropped more than their previous average variance.
Regarding any toolbar PageRank update specifically, I haven't seen any changes at all across any of the sites I monitor, not that that means very much although what I have seen and have been seeing for the past couple of months are sites having their toolbar PageRank actually zeroed, although not always across entire sites.
But the really interesting thing is that although their toolbar PageRank has taken a dive, their page count in the Main index, their performance in the SERPs and most importantly, their Google sourced traffic haven't changed at all.
This has got to be the strangest Toolbar "update" in history.
Personally, I wish they would just get rid of the "green pixels" period and save us all a lot of grief!
