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SEOstats is a powerful open source PHP library to request a bunch of SEO relevant metrics.
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Google PR returns 0 for all urls #130

Closed ordin2342 closed 8 years ago

ordin2342 commented 8 years ago

Strangly it worked once, returning 10 for www.google.com.

But after that every url returns 0, although the real value is different. Does google block more than a single request per IP maybe? No clue, what's wrong.

Alexa stats look correct. Any advice?

Thanks and awesome library by the way!

ordin2342 commented 8 years ago

Well I was wrong, even the initial request returned actually "1" "0" Alexa = 1 GooglePR = 0

I just read it wrong as "10"

bandertron commented 8 years ago

Hi there, Google confirmed they had stopped returning toolbar PR the other week. As a result there is no way to get this information any more. It's actually been old/non updated data for years now so a good thing that they turned it off in a way.

You can read more here: http://searchengineland.com/google-has-confirmed-they-are-removing-toolbar-pagerank-244230

Hope that helps.

ordin2342 commented 8 years ago

Thanks mate, I didn't know. Bummer. Is there a different but similar value? I find Alexa is a little hard to grasp from a users point of view. For most people's web sites the Alexa number is also pretty disappointing. I'm looking for a simple value representing the url in terms of ranking for inexperienced users.

bandertron commented 8 years ago

No problem! There are alternatives that you may want to consider provided by Moz, aHref, majestic etc. These generally provide domain rank, page rank as well as trust flow. Worth checking out. Note, all these metrics represent the link profile the website/page has from the web as a whole (well, the depth of their individual Web indexes), which is similar to pagerank.

ordin2342 commented 8 years ago

All right, gonna check it out. Thanks again!

My question has been answered, closing this thread.