According to foreign media reported in Thursday, Google has been removed from the "Webmaster Tools" kit (webmaster Tools) PageRank.
Search Engine Optimization (hereinafter referred to as "SEO") in the development of the Internet market played an important role, SEO can make the site in search engine query results to get a higher ranking, that is PageRank. PageRank is an algorithm for displaying the importance of a Web page, and its main ranking is based on the external links of a Web page and the relevance and credibility of those links. PageRank is an important factor in Google's search rankings.
But Google recently removed PageRank data from webmaster Tools, claiming that the rankings were not an important factor for SEO. Google said that removing the project from the Administrator tool was due to the fact that many webmasters were too focused on the statistic.
According to the online news, PR will likely be replaced by link, the corresponding relationship between the following:
PR0 = link 0
PR1 = Link 10-50
PR2 = Link 60-200
PR3 = Link 210-400
PR4 = Link 410-800
PR5 = Link 810-1600
PR6 = Link 1610-3200
PR7 = Link 3210-6400
PR8 = Link 6410-12800
PR9 = Link 12810-25600
PR10 = Link 25600-++++
September's PR Google has not yet updated, but Link has been updated, which seems to prove this rumor. If the news is true, it will undoubtedly be in the website SEO industry set off a shaking waves.