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jules · Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:44 pm Post subject: What happened?

The "recent forum postings" panel has gone from the right hand side of the main page, and the Google page rank has dropped off the clock again.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

I think there was an issue with the site using too much of the server CPU
for some reason when executing that code. As for Google pagerank, that's
a load of bs if you ask me. I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I really find it
not useful for small sites, or even medium ones like these.

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

Google recently changed their pagerank I think. Pagerank IMHO is overrated and too many people really give it more credit than what it's worth. Pagerank can be easily fooled if you want to get a higher rank with minimal effort.

jules · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

But surely it's one of the things Google uses to decide how high up the search results your site will come? BS or not, it's still important, since Google is still the most popular search engine.

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

You're right that its probably the biggest factor to determine your listing/position on Google thus helping getting hits. The thing is with software you typically are listed on numerous sites thus a majority of your hits will actually come from those shareware/freeware websites and word of mouth rather than from google.

FreezingFire · **Admin Team** Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 3508

Jules I agree that it's important to have a good page rank to receive
hits from searches on Google and its partners, but I think they're just
playing a big game.. it seems to me that way. Neutral

jules · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:53 am Post subject:

jules · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:54 am Post subject: