search

eyecatchup / SEOstats

SEOstats is a powerful open source PHP library to request a bunch of SEO relevant metrics.
MIT License
1.46k stars 383 forks source link

Remove Google Pagerank method #135

Open eyecatchup opened 7 years ago

eyecatchup commented 7 years ago

Because Google officially killed the Toolbar Pagerank, the method (and SEOstats/Services/3rdparty/GTB_PageRank.php) should be removed.

jpswade commented 7 years ago

Officially? According to whom?

Either way, it looks like it's gone now...

eyecatchup commented 7 years ago

Officially? According to whom?

According to Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller:

“As the Internet and our understanding of the Internet have grown in complexity, the Toolbar PageRank score has become less useful to users as a single isolated metric. Retiring the PageRank display from Toolbar helps avoid confusing users and webmasters about the significance of the metric.”

-- Sources: The SEM Post, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Land