Google’s John Mueller shared some of his thoughts on third-party metrics that try to replicate Google’s internal PageRank metrics. PageRank is one of many signals Google uses for ranking websites in Search, the importance of PageRank in Google’s search ranking algorithms have been debated over the years with more and more saying it has less weight now than it did early on.
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