In a town hall meeting this evening, Ted Murphy proved once again that he listens to his customers both Advertisers and Publishers (posties) by announcing that Google PR will be removed from the current Pay Per Post and will not be incorporated into the new soon to be released Social Spark (despite a video showing PR included). This met thunderous cheers from the Publishers and was immediately backed up with statistics from heavy communication with old and new advertisers that really they are interested ultimately in Return on Investment, visitors to their sites, and quality reviews instead of here today gone tomorrow link juice that does not really effect SERPs that much anyway. I am very happy with this update and look forward to the increased adoption of Real Rank and ROI Rank!

Please see a transcript here courtesy of bree623 and Google in regards to how PR is only a small part of their ranking formula.

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