Posted by on Tuesday, March 19 at 08:15 Amanda DiSilvestro gives small business and entrepreneurs SEO advice ranging from keyword density to recovering from algorithm updates. She writes for the HigherVisibility.com , a nationally recognized as one of the best search engine optimization firms PageRank has been a debate amongst many SEOs for quite some time. Because Google has so many different ranking factors now, many find PageRank unnecessary and nothing but a tool for spammers to try to sell links. However, the real question is whether or not your typical user is using PageRank as a way to analyze page. The question then is this: Does Google have any plans to remove the PageRank toolbar, or is it still too valuable? The History and Rationale of the PageRank Toolbar It first helps to understand a little bit of the history of the PageRank toolbar and why it exists in the first place. It was developed at Standford University back in 1995 by one of Google’s founders, Larry Page.…