Google drop PR data - powersuite now uses Moz PR/DA data instead

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In October 2014 Google announced it would no longer update it PageRank data - which if you're doing SEO or any form of analysis - was not the greatest of news.

SEO Powersuite tools have emailed to say that all their tools now have Moz PageRank and Domain Authority data built in - so you dont have to rely on out of data Google PR info - anyone who wants to read up on it - it's here

 

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@bluenun Moz is a very powerful tool but is very expensive for small businesses and the free account only allows:

"A Free license lets you run 1 request every 10 seconds, while a Paid license permits 200 requests/second."

Seems to me that SEO Powersuite have some sort of affiliation with Moz, which is fair enough and Moz is an excellent tool but very expensive.

Matt.

 

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If Google no longer update PageRank, and Moz is expensive for a full membership - what's the alternative ? - I dont know of any other tool that uses another source other than Google or Moz - is there one ?
Personally I prefer to use buzzbundle and do stuff via Social Media etc - as it's a lot more personal and direct, although the powersuite rank tracker, audit and spyglass are very very useful

 

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@bluenun as far as I am aware Google will not update the Toolbar Pagerank but will still use it in its search algorithm, links are not the main aspect of search anymore I think.

We use Moz purely on its own and it is expensive for full member ship but worth it. Regards to Social Media management we use Hootsuite which does all we need it to but never tried Buzzbundle I will take a look at it, cheers.

Matt.

 

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Hootsuite is ok Matt - but limited in comparison ie Hootsuite - when I last looked there was lots of extra stuff that buzzbundle did - most of it stuff you'd expect eg hoot coldnt post to youtube, unlimited faceposts, use a proxy, group keywords together etc etc there's a demo video

 

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Cheers @bluenun I will check it out, the group keywords together sounds interesting.

Matt.

 

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In October 2014 Google announced it would no longer update it PageRank data - which if you're doing SEO or any form of analysis - was not the greatest of news.

Why?

Toolbar PageRank was only a bit of pixie dust anyway - it was just a meaningless number. Page Rank is still part of the algo - but you never has access to this anyway.

As an aside you do know that it was called Page Rank after its invetor Larry Page, it's not a 'page' rank.

 

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As an aside you do know that it was called Page Rank after its invetor Larry Page, it's not a 'page' rank.

I asked your question to Link Assistant they said
"We would disagree toolbar PageRank was a meaningless number, anyway it's not going to be updated in future, so there was a need for an alternative metric, and we introduced Moz PA/DA to SEO PowerSuite."

"With regards to whether PageRank, though not accessible, is still part of Google algo - no one except Google engineers would answer it."

 

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I agree with fisicx. Don't get hung up on page rank (or its poor cousins).

 

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"We would disagree toolbar PageRank was a meaningless number, anyway it's not going to be updated in future, so there was a need for an alternative metric, and we introduced Moz PA/DA to SEO PowerSuite."

Well of course they are going to say that - not using it (or an alternative) would mean admitting what all the SEO professionals have known for years: that it's worthless.

Google it - there are hundreds of results all explaining why it was a pointless measure of anything.