Replacement of Page Rank

[Maggie Q.]

Page Rank has lost its importance, very few people now cares for Page Rank. What Google will now bring instead of PR?

[Joseph]

PR mostly depends on the number of backlinks to the website and hence it has lost importance. I think Google should bring in something which can actually determine the quality of the content of the website

I think QC - Quality Content should be be introduced now ;)

[Laci]

Right... Webmasters have started using blackhat tactics for getting good PR hence now you can see a month old website with good PR ;)

Originally Posted by Joseph

I think QC - Quality Content should be be introduced now ;)

Yeah, good idea !!!! Well, we can define QC as quality checker ;)
Higher the value of QC the more reliable is the site.

[Joseph]

Introducing something like this would be a good idea, however, It is also important that whatever replaces PR would take the content and the quality of the whole website to rank a website other than the backlinks it has got. Otherwise, introducing something to replace PR would not be worth it :(

[dncompute]

Nice idea Joseph, it would really be nice not to stumble across so many thin affiliate sites when you are really trying to find some useful information. But how would you do it? I mean other than having a bunch of poor schmucks sitting there and reading every site every day I don't see how it could be done.

You can only automate tasks to a certain point as I feel it would be virtually impossible to create an algorithm that understands the difference between quality content and pure affiliate reviews with no substance. I'm probably wrong but am curious if you have any ideas.

[Crazzy]

Originally Posted by dncompute

Nice idea Joseph, it would really be nice not to stumble across so many thin affiliate sites when you are really trying to find some useful information. But how would you do it? I mean other than having a bunch of poor schmucks sitting there and reading every site every day I don't see how it could be done.

You can only automate tasks to a certain point as I feel it would be virtually impossible to create an algorithm that understands the difference between quality content and pure affiliate reviews with no substance. I'm probably wrong but am curious if you have any ideas.

I agree on this and that is why I think that PR did not left the building. First of all, PR is STILL relevant. If that was not the case than Google would surely replace it with something. Just because some use blackhat it doesn't mean that other backlinks that are relevant should be considered as an ill gotten gain. What G needs to do is perfect their PR assigning algorithm.

For example, I have a site that is 3 months old. Some owner of a PR3 site linked to my site because he liked it. A few months later my site is PR3. Comprende...? Good sites must not suffer because of some bozos who do blackhat!

[Gelato]

I don't think that PR is completely gone. I think it'll need a revamp to make it relevant again, but overall, I think it'll stick around and offer some sort of source. I like the idea of quality control/checking.