Comments on: Is RSS feed count the next Page Rank?

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By: Eric Dytzel

Eric Dytzel — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:20:17 +0000

Back on October 28th just after the PR slap, I blogged about this same subject. I called it "RSS Reader Count – The New Page Rank"

Looks like I am not the only one thinking along these lines.

http://noviceseo.com/rss-reader-count-the-new-pag…

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By: Dave Nofmeister

Dave Nofmeister — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:28:29 +0000

I think the answer is "yes". It's also pretty unfortunate, since some great sites cannot utilize rss feeds in a significant way.

By: sofish

sofish — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:07:51 +0000

Ranking seem a popular thing…but Top subsriber List have tell us is only a simple Rank different from google PR…

Google can make it a essential factor but it cann't find out all the subcriber numbers…

By: 45n5

45n5 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:55:42 +0000

both owned by google, lol

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:12:32 +0000

I think that most major companies and developers would put RSS count in front of the pagerank of a site. Also, there are still a lot of websites who have a good page rank but the site sucks, for example this one has a PR 4 Consider two sites which had been online for the same length of time and had the same number of articles, would you rather buy the blog which had a PR 3 and had 2000 subscribers or the one which had a PR of 5 but had 147 subscribers? Clearly, you would make more money with the blog with the most subscribers, particularly now that Google penalizes sites for selling text links to pass pagerank.

By: CashQuests

CashQuests — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:43:36 +0000

Thanks Mani. It think the previous commentators are right in that PR still has value…but I also think that you're right in that it's value is fading. The higher ones are still worth a bit more at the moment, but the way Google is messing about with it, it's slowly losing it's value as people become unsure just how much it can affect search rankings.

RSS is a much easier indicator of traffic and I think we'll see it's importance increase as the blogosphere changes direction from being about search engine rankings to "paid" traffic.

By: Monika @ The Writers

Monika @ The Writers — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:51:59 +0000

The thought is valid but despite this I still believe that PR is here to stay. Like Kyle mentioned, it just makes the higher PR's more valuable.

RSS feeds are great and they act as credibility factor especially to new visitors.

When I visit new sites, I do pay more attention if the RSS feed is high.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:02:08 +0000

Interesting take at RSS Feed Count but I think this will never replace Page Rank more so when Google did the recent update, seems to me high pr is getting scarce and the blogs that maintained their PR are getting more valuable.