Toolbar greyed for all sites?

Google's toolbar not showing PR anymore?

[cigjonser]

Does anyone else see the toolbar greyed out for all sites? I'm not getting anything.

[kgougakis]

i think that they want to find a way to make money from pr until now it was something with no profit for them and its time like in all other companies to take the advance to take our money at last for something so valiable for us webmasters!

[VikasMosaic]

That the PR is dead is a long awaited move and one that probably will help arrest spam and link selling.

It will make the task of serious link building just a little tougher.

I believe it will start the trend of evaluating sites rather than pages for the link exchange or one way links.

So what will not mattter now is the page that your link exists on but the site it exists on.( Anyway that is how probably google counts them) but just that we in SEO community are obstinate enough not to factor that in.

Link building will now have to focus on site factors and not page factors. I have started a thread in link development to list the strategies that can be used to evaluate sites now.

However the game has taken another turn.

Brett what do you think( from your earlier post in this thread). Are we all ranting.

Will they bring it back.

[dbdev]

All grey here aswell in Ontario, Canada.

[dataguy]

I predict that PR will be showing in the toolbar soon and the most amazing thing will be how quickly things will go back to normal. Within two weeks of its re-appearance most people will forget that it ever happened.

Every once in a while I'll have a server that goes down for a day or two before it can be brought back online. Like most webmasters, every minute that my web site is down is agonizing for me, and my World is a totally different place without my "baby".

Whenever the web site is finally brought back online, no one mentions its disappearance. I'll immediately get a question from a web visitor who is totally obliviouos to the outage. Within 5 minutes, it will make a sale, within 10 minutes hackers will be trying to get into the server, and I'll be able to relax as my World is free to continue as if it was never interrupted.

This Toolbar PR missing in action is just a minor blip. It is just part of the forward movement that is the Internet...

[Matahari]

Since all is still grey on the PR front, I was wondering if GoogleGuy has anything to say about this. We would love to know what's behind the disappearance of the li'l green bar (oh, I miss it!).

Of course, now that the "quality" of a site will mainly be determined from its content, relevance and popularity, site evaluation for link building will only become more interesting and purposeful.

Any more thoughts on a future without the green bar for all link builders?

Matahari

[Macguru]

>>Any more thoughts on a future without the green bar for all link builders?

[webmasterworld.com...]
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I bet future is 0X cents per page, for those who really needs to know.

[GuluGulu]

Instead of PageRank, they are probably coming with a new ranking system called

TrustRank

be prepare for this.

[Macguru]

Not that I want to offend you GuluGulu, or anyone else, but, IMHO, TrustRank is just plain blog noise. It's just a trademark they registered. I still can see as many spam on top as before, since over 6 years.

[leoo24]

you know how some tools are reporting double digit figures, i think one reported 69/10 for one of my pages, what if they were changing it to be out of 100? would sure make it easier to determine a strong pr6 for example vs a weak pr6

[Macguru]

>>i think one reported 69/10

Prior to last friday?

If the input is missing, no wonder the tool gets bamboozled.