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Re: MSc Research - Does making a Website Accessible compromise Search Engine Optimisation?

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From: Karl Groves
Date: Nov 18, 2009 7:35AM

I knew as soon as I mentioned PageRank, someone would bring this up. I
wasn't attempting to claim that PageRank was the be-all-and-end-all of SEO.
I think that while it is interesting that Google has removed PageRank from
Webmaster Tools, I have yet to see any evidence that PageRank is no longer a
concern. I would certainly be suspicious of any claims stating that "
Google Page Rank is *not *important.", as it stands against reason that
PageRank would exist but not be important. Now, whether it has recently
become of lesser value certainly seems to be the case. But I can't find any
information from any source whatsoever that shows that PageRank has been
removed altogether and is therefore "not important".

At any rate, this is all sort of a red herring in that the topic of
conversation was SEO & Accessibility, not the value of PageRank.

Karl




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