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.

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.