google-pagerank
Today morning forums and groups were in mixed reactions after they saw that Google Toolbar and other SEO Plugins showing their site’s Google Pagerank to be 0 or N/A. The most trusted PR Checker (Google Toolbar) was also displaying the same error.
After a speculation, Forums and groups came to the conclusion that Google had removed Google Pagerank. Some were rejoicing at the thought while others were doomed! I came to know about the story from a Facebook group I am part of, We exchanged many theories there as to what would be the next measure of a website’s excellence. Some members told Alexa might be considered etc. While we all were sure that Google wont take such a drastic step. But still its not impossible.
After many hours of surfing I came across a twitter tweet from David Naylor, which had the following piece of Golden Nugget! 
twitter tweet
So that was all needed to satisfy me that Google Pagerank is not Dead! They had just changed the URL which queried the Pagerank from systems.
The Old URL Was This -
http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&features=Rank&ch=SITECHECKSUM&q=info:SITENAME.com
The New URL Is This -
http://toolbarqueries.google.com/tbr?client=navclient-auto&features=Rank&ch=SITECHECKSUM&q=info:SITENAME.com
You can manually check your Pagerank with the above URL by changing the checksum and sitename but there is problem that you cannot find the Checksum of your website effectively. I will soon update the post with any method I find.
UPDATE (07-10-2011) -
Google Toolbar has started working again but third party apps like SEQ Quake has not yet updated their code, So I will explain how you can edit SEO Quake to suite the new URL
Step 1. Right Click SEO Quake in the status bar of firefox and click Preferences.
Step 2. Choose parameters Tab and click on Pagerank.
Step 3. Click on Edit button.
Step 4. In the [URL_R] change the http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search to http://toolbarqueries.google.com/tbr and Save it.
Step 5. Start using it and it will display the correct Page Rank.
Till then you can try this method: (Use the above method)
Step 1. Install SEOQuake Plugin.
Step 2. Search your sitename in Google.
Step 3. Right Click the ‘?’ beside your Site PR in the SEOQuake bar.
Step 4. Copy the URL and choose the Checksum from it and use it in the new URL.
Possibly the Google Toolbar has started working again! But third party applications and addons need to update to the new URL to get the Pagerank in their applications.
About Anoop
Anoop Sudhakaran is a Tech Blogger from Mumbai, India.He is the Founder & Editor of HackTabs. He is a student and his areas of Interest include Computers, Blogging, Gaming, Internet Surfing.
Dude how did you know this already? Do you have people working for google?
I tried the new query and it worked!
However its very long trying to do it manually i would much rather have it displayed on my seoquake toolbar, how long do you think until they update it?
Cheers
Saif
As I have specified! From Twitter!
its a relief to me. PR is really important for me and it was really bad when I heard that its dead.
Same was the situation of mine!
then when will things go normal again? getting frustrated here seeing that NA in my sites, sigh
any information when will things be settled up?
I think the Google Toolbar has started working again Just try it or use the query I gave in the above post! No confirmed reports of third party app integration!
so I still have to check them manually?
quite a work to do actually but thanks! this post is really helpful!
Read the Update I have mentioned!
Is anyone else getting a permissions error when they try this? (“403 – Your client does not have permission to get URL /tbr?client=navclient-auto…”)
You have to have the correct checksum. Else this error ma occur.
I tried the new query and it worked!
elahmad.com
GREAT!!! Works for me, thank you!
Your tweet button isnt functioning, i tried twitting this but whenever i move my mouse pointer towards it, it wont be highlighted but Digg works fine.
Thanks for notifying. Will check it.
Hello I use SearchStatus | Firefox SEO Toolbar Extension. Current version is not working with PageRank. I have updated the code of version 1.37 and now it is working for me. If there is someone who wants the updated version, I can share it, untill Quirk releases an update.
Thank You for the offer!
If you would like to share it with all readers, I can update it in the post if you can send it to me using the contact form!
Hello Anoop,
I have posted a link for the updated file on the facebook wall of SearchStatus group. Here is a link for the facebook post, (which can also viewed externally, without log in):
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=251416628237526&id=4814282009
Regards from Athens – Greece
Dimitris Aspiotis
Thank You for your effort!
Thanks on information!
I use SEO status PageRank/Alexa Toolbar Add-on on Firefox and it doesn’t display PageRank. For now there is no update.
Hey, thanks for your message. I’ve updated PageRankStatus for Chrome.
Get it here » http://rank-king.eu/downloads/pagerankstatus-chrome.tar
You can install it in developer-mode, just unpack and select folder, that’s it.
BTW pagerank.js holds the makehash javascript function ; ) there you can see how to calculate the right hash.
regards, dynamind
Thanks for the file! I thought Hashes are generated in the server side, I extracted the .crx file to get the pagerank.js
Would love that update as well.
thank’s , I think can’t read google page rank
Thanks for the great update. If you are not using SeoQuake and just want to check a couple of sites. I have made a online free Google Page Rank Checker with the updated Google API URL. You can find it here:
Check Your Google Page Rank Here
Great job!! Works perfect!!
Do you know any pagerank client working on firefox with the new update? or any trick for edit&fix extensions with new update? (except Seoquiake, i dont like it)
Gracias por el excelente post! (;
the best SEO toolbar for firefox IMO is SEOBOOK toolbar. this one has already been updated to show the pagerank.
It works like magic! Thanks so much!
Thank goodness, looks like I’m back again using the google toolbar.. hmm, so it’s not really dead..
Thanks for giving the best information about Google page rank. It can be more useful to me and in my business. It is the success information for any other.
Thanks for notifying. Will check it.
Excellent information. I was able to fix my SeoQuake plugin for Firefox.
For those interested, I found a website with the JavaScript code to compute the checksum.
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=106469
Anyone knows of a limit on the number of queries we can do to the Google toolbar URL? Any TOS from Google in that regard? I search a bit and so far have not found anything useful on Google itself…
Thank you.
Alexis
There is no specified number of queries (atleast I have not found any) but if you perform too many queries in a short span of time, You may be temporarily banned from Google services for Query Spamming.
That sounds great!
The link I provided earlier shown older code and I could not make it work right…
I found another one in different languages (including C which is what I was looking for) here:
https://github.com/phurix/pagerank/
This actually comes from a Firefox toolbar add-on which shows the PR of the current page (just like SEO Quake).
Thanks for sharing it with us Alexis.
Check out http://pagerank.koeniglich.ch/ it’s very fast and clutter free
Thanks for sharing the tool.