{"id":169,"date":"2008-05-19T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/how-important-is-google-pagerank\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T03:23:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T07:23:40","slug":"how-important-is-google-pagerank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/how-important-is-google-pagerank\/","title":{"rendered":"How important is Google PageRank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building\/uploaded_images\/smi-703693.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building\/uploaded_images\/smi-703622.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Don&#8217;t try to obsess over your Google PageRank &#8211; it is just one of the factors in the collective algorithm that Google uses to put up SERPs. Though having lots of relevant, inbound high PageRank links is a fine thing, high PR does not guarantee high placement in SERPs.<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that Google will calculate your PR based on the page criteria and the title tag of the linking page. Google can penalize if it detects a large number of irrelevant links in a site. How effective is Google in determining link relevance is a subject of discuss among SEOs. However, building related links is a good rule of thumb so as to follow if you want to boost your site&#8217;s PR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t try to obsess over your Google PageRank &#8211; it is just one of the factors in the collective algorithm that Google uses to put up SERPs. Though having lots of relevant, inbound high PageRank links is a fine thing, high PR does not guarantee high placement in SERPs. Bear in mind that Google will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/link-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}