Pagerank is Dead. Long Live…Something Else.

Some time ago on my personal blog I wrote about how everyone needed to stop being slaves to Pagerank and instead focus on creating a quality experience for their users. At the time I wrote that post, people were crying over the fact that Google had slashed their rankings as punishment for selling links. This led to much weeping and gnashing of teeth over what to do to get back on Google’s good side and caused some websites to take measures that will probably prove to be counterproductive in the long term.