Google's Ghost PageRank

A Ghost PageRank thread.

post in SEORoundTable brought this thread to my attention, describes ghost PageRank as "an estimated PageRank value based on a domain's current PageRank summation." Ammon Johns described the phenomenon in the new sites dropping discussion, says, "by now I don't see hardly any correlation between ranking and PageRank, and frequently the toolbar PageRank makes no sense at all. "It only takes a few links from a PR 7 site, for example, and you already have a PR 6. Normally you would need several times the number of links to graduate one digit on the toolbar PageRank scale. This is clearly not the case anymore." Garrett French is the editor of murdok's eBusiness channel. You can talk to him directly at

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