I sometimes wonder why Google bothers with their toolbar PR. It used to be that they updated it monthly but changed sometime back and now they roll out the updates every 3 months or so.

You’d think they would do it properly wouldn’t you? On one of my sites according to Google’s Webmaster tools the page listed with the highest page rank hasn’t changed in the last 3 months. This page previously had a PR of ZERO but now shows a whopping 4!.

What confuses me is that other pages on the site which didn’t have page rank before this update have now been given a PR rating of 5.

So Google, which one is correct? The toolbar rating or the Webmasters Tools?

I understand why they are rolling out at much larger intervals now but if your not going to give accurate results why bother at all? Why not do away with visible Toolbar Page rank and just show it to the webmasters in the Webmaster Tools Console.

Page rank doesn’t particularly bother me. I’d much rather have good search results with a Page Rank Zero than crap results and a Page Rank of 10. That said, I think they should either do it properly or not at all.

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