In the last 15 years, PageRank has been a benchmark for many web page owners or administrators classification of web pages and to estimate their importance.
The algorithm by which they were classified and the score of a site was given, were mainly based on “backlinks” – a link / quote from a better ranked site – and on the quality / uniqueness of the content. PageRank- was seen in an absolutely erroneous way as a tool SEO, and many were taken by the PR wave, stating that a higher PR also guarantees a more visitors to the web page. False. From experience, I say that I had web pages with PageRank 2, which far exceeded a web page with PageRank 6. The algorithm used by Google was as clear as possible. A link given from a page A with PR6, to a page B with a lower rank, increased the PR of page B over time. Of course, the number of links and the number of pages that sent links to page B mattered a lot. It was an algorithm that gave birth to many “business” online and of one “link markets” all right. Google was not too pleased with the links bought by the web page owners, and by 2010 the first penalties had already appeared. Finally, all in all, PageRank was in a period a real madness and a source of income for many owners of web pages with high PageRank. A link on such a web page could cost from a few dollars to several hundreds. Links were exchanged, bought, sold, made “studied” to try to fool Google's algorithms, specialized forums full of discussions on the subject of PR.
In recent years, there has been a bit of silence, and many were wondering when will be the next PageRank update. You are used to Google updating the PR at least once or twice a year, for several years it has stagnated.
A few days ago, Google completely withdrew the PageRank classification for the importance of web pages, but this does not mean that they do not have a classification. The secret, but it exists.
For web page owners, the best “indicator” to find out where a web page is located Google Console. former Google Webmasters. In Google Console you can find details and reports about the number of backlinks, the positioning in the search engine for certain keywords, keywords that lead to the web page, reports on the indexing rate, health / security of the site, errors, plus many other useful information for SEO (Search Engine Optimization).
As alternatives to Google PageRank, I am almost certain that a series of tools will be developed by third parties or individuals, but they can only provide some presumptive data.
