It looks like Google will be slowly removing PageRank as part of their algorithm. This is from various forums, rumors and the fact that Google has just removed PageRank from it's webmaster tools. Another interesting item is the fact that Google has not updated the Google toolbar for PageRank in about 5 months. The normal time span until now had been 2-3 months.
I think that in reality that way too many blogs were selling link juice and Google was having a hard time fighting it. Even if Google delisted a blog that they suspected for selling links, the other search engines didn't and the blog would survive. Bing, Yahoo and others could not care less about PageRank and selling links because their search algorithm is different.
If PageRank goes bye-bye would those companies that unite bloggers and advertisers for link selling still stay in business? I wonder what the standard would be to set prices for links if link selling still went on? Would Alexa become the new standard? Interesting to say the least.
I for one will be glad to see it go. I have had blogs with a PR5 and maybe 2 visitors a week, while this blog has at least 50 visitors a day, not including my RSS feeds and followers with a PR that ranges from 0 to 1. My highest trafficked blog has a PR of 2 and has over 1500 visitors a day and 3000 page views each and every day. To me PageRank means nothing so maybe Google is starting to think that way too.
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