{"id":1491,"date":"2012-03-19T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T01:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techwalls.com\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:04:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:04:54","slug":"google-pagerank-removed-google-plus-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/google-pagerank-removed-google-plus-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Google PageRank Removed From Google+ Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techwalls.com\/blogging\/google-pagerank-update-november-2011\/\">Google PageRank<\/a> is something that many bloggers obsess over, since going up or down can predict a huge gain or loss in traffic. \u00a0When you&#8217;re relying on your blog to provide a steady income, this is <em>a big deal. \u00a0<\/em>Well, this doesn&#8217;t directly pertain to the livelihood of your blog, but it&#8217;s something to note: for whatever reason, Google PageRank has been removed from all Google+ Pages.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Google PageRank Removed From Google+ Pages<\/h2>\n<p>Why? \u00a0We&#8217;re not really sure. \u00a0The speculation is that Google did not purposely force all of their Google+ pages to have zero or no PageRank &#8211; this wouldn&#8217;t make any sense. \u00a0Google is trying to push Google+ in our faces, not take it out of the limelight, so bloggers around the net are coming to the consensus that someone must have made an oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>More observant tech people have noted that <strong><a title=\"custom google plus url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/set-custom-url-google-plus-page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Plus URLs<\/a><\/strong> recently changed &#8211; they used to be shorter, but now re-direct to something that looks more like this:<\/p>\n<p>(The link goes to the TechWalls Google Plus Page)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/plus.google.com\/100456744122229823295\/posts<\/p>\n<p>What bloggers are hoping is that <a href=\"http:\/\/techwalls.com\/blogging\/google-pagerank-update-february-2012\/\">PageRank<\/a> is still updating these links, and that they will return to normal soon. \u00a0While it doesn&#8217;t have any <em>direct <\/em>bearing on the traffic of your site, many blogs get referrals from Google+, and many of those referrals are from Google searches that lead to your page on Google+. \u00a0A lower PageRank for these pages means that they show up less often, which hurts your traffic. \u00a0But, I wouldn&#8217;t worry about it too much &#8211; Google has too much energy invested in Google+ to not do everything it can to promote it.<\/p>\n<h2>Google+ And PageRank<\/h2>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Google-plus-page\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techwalls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Google-plus-page.jpg\" alt=\"Google-plus-page\" width=\"597\" height=\"358\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps, bear with me, the removal of PageRank from Google+ could point to something bigger &#8211; a move to a different approach in driving traffic to Google Plus. \u00a0If we take an honest, objective look at this new social media platform, it&#8217;s obvious that, despite the fact that it has been inundated with users, they don&#8217;t really stay active in their posting and adding people to circles. \u00a0The bottom line is: Google needs more people to start using Google +.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe removing PageRank means that Google will create some alternate incentive to using Google+, or integrate it even further into the search process. \u00a0Just recently, Google added a &#8220;People related to ___ on Google+&#8221; sidebar that occasionally comes up when you search something that fits a certain criteria. \u00a0It&#8217;s obvious that the company is trying to promote their social media platform, and it may prove true that they are expanding this sidebar into more searches in order to reach more people and increase the amount of traffic that flows through Google+. \u00a0Google controls hundreds of millions of visitors on a regular basis, and they probably figure that it&#8217;s about time some of those people were redirected through their new social networking platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google PageRank is something that many bloggers obsess over, since going up or down can predict a huge gain or loss in traffic. \u00a0When you&#8217;re relying on your blog to provide a steady income, this is a big deal. \u00a0Well, this doesn&#8217;t directly pertain to the livelihood of your blog, but it&#8217;s something to note: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":1497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[90,47,56,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-1491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-blogging-2","9":"tag-blogging-tips","10":"tag-google","11":"tag-google-news","12":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Google PageRank Removed From Google Plus Pages<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google PageRank has, for some speculated reason, been removed from all Google+ Pages, including the homepage. 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