PageRank May Be Dying

Barry Schwartz one of the most respected SEO information sources has reported that Google has pulled the PageRank stats from within Google Webmaster Tools found under crawl stats.

Barrys report on PageRank gone from GWT

There is also confirmation from a Google employee,

Susan Moskwa from the Google Webmaster Central team explained it was removed because Google keeps telling webmasters “that they shouldn’t focus on PageRank so much.” They felt it was “silly” to keep telling webmasters that, and at the same time show it in Webmaster Tools. So Google removed it from Webmaster Tools.

I imagine it won’t be long till PR is dropped from the toolbar as well.

When it happens seems to be only a matter of time!!

More to come!!