People have being looking for a toolbar for Chrome browser to display the famous Google PageRank bar of the web page currently visited web page.
Well there isn’t one, unless somebody can tell me otherwise.

Thanks to the open-source community, you can instead use  a browser extension published by “kalehrish”. Here is a link to that PageRank Extension for Google Chrome. I just downloaded and installed it. As far as I know, it integrates well with Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 (36714) for PC.  I did not get a chance to check how it would behave on a Mac.
It works like a charm for me and it’s very lightweight.

A while back, Google  removed PageRank from the Webmaster Tools section of its website. The big G also informed us that little green bar is not as important as we might think. Indeed the PageRank is not all there to SEO but that green bar is an indicator of the quantity & quality of inbound links to a given web page.

We know that search engines put more emphasis on relevance of the page content to the search query for ranking. But all things being equal, the higher the Pagerank, the better the page placement in search engines results.

Another option is the Kuber PageRank Checker. It not only display the Pagerank  beside the address box but it also show the Alexa rank and a whois link when clicked: talk about killing three birds with one stone.

Google the web search giant has just released its very own web browser named Google Chrome. 
Although Google Chrome is still in Beta stage, I am really delighted by the test drive I gave it today. 
You can download it from http://www.google.com/chrome 
The  installation process of google chrome is simple and fast. Only make sure your firewall allows the installer to connect to the web to download the files needed.

Here are a few things worth noting after just an hour of Google Chrome test drive: 

* Google Chrome once installed can import all my favorites (bookmarks) & saved passwords from IE: a real time saver. 

* the google chrome browser loads fast (less than 5 seconds) and my system “Task Manager” reveals that it uses only about 9MB of RAM compared to 44MB  by Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and 86MB by IE7 loaded with a blank page. 

* The browser interface is clean, simple and efficient: just one toolbar with the basic navigation buttons on the top left corner: back, forward, refresh. You can add the “Homepage” button to your settings. 
 

* You don’t have to be a techie to change the settings: mainly choosing your home page, your default search engine, a few “other tweaks” and things “under the hood”

* Easy to make personal settings: just click on the wrench icon (top right corner) in the graphic above.

It shows the bare minimum items on the menu:
- for displaying a new bar with your bookmarks buttons.

- Clicking on “history” will open your browsing history in a new tab with a search function in it

- the same goes for the “Downloads”

- “clear browsing data” comes handy to clear your browser’s cache and force it to download fresh information from the web server.
- “Import bookmarks & settings” says it all.

- the “Options” opens a new window where you can set your google Chrome browser preferences as shown in the screen capture below:

* one thing that seemed missing was the search box. Well, it turns out the address box have a double-duty of being the search box for your default Search Engine. 

As a web developer, Google Chrome is one more browser to add to my list of web browsers to test websites with before going live. So far it seems to be web standards compliant as far as CSS2 is concerned behaving pretty much like Safari for PC (sorry Mac users I cannot speak for you.)

I am however confident, based on the fact that Google Chrome is an open-source web browsers, that this newcomer in the web browsers arena will try hard to win the heart of the online community.

Happy web surfing and warm welcome to Google Chrome!! 

I just had a pleasant surprise this morning while surfing one of the e-commerce web sites I am in charge of maintaining and search engines marketing: the google PageRank of most of the web pages has skyrocketed from 0 to 3.
For over a year or more, only the home page had a Google Pagerank 3. All the catalog and the individual product pages still had a PR 0.

At first I attributed that to the fact that those pages do not have that much content besides the products pictures and titles as compared to the home pages and the new arrivals page which was PR 2. Well I was wrong or maybe something I still do not have a clue about.

Anyway I am glad to see that most of the web pages have now a Google PR3. That’s cool!! Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

A of this site Saheltech.com, for a long time, about a year, all pages but the homepage where taken off for redesign and complete SEO & SEM. The new look-and-feel has been online now for about 3 months with a homepage hanging on PR4, all other webpages were PR0.

Well to my delight amazement this morning pretty much all pages on the “level 1″ (i.e. 1 click away from the home page) have now a Google PageRank ranging from 4 to 2. I guess my patience and the long hours of marketing and link building strategies have paid off.