{"id":30503,"date":"2011-10-17T11:47:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandignitybeta.com\/demo\/brandlatest\/2011\/10\/17\/google-says-dont-obsess-over-pagerank-video\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:47:40","slug":"google-says-dont-obsess-over-pagerank-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brandignitybeta.com\/demo\/brandlatest\/google-says-dont-obsess-over-pagerank-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Says Don&#8217;t Obsess Over PageRank [video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandignity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/matt-cutts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2528\" title=\"matt-cutts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandignity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/matt-cutts.jpg\" alt=\"Matt Cutts\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For quite a long time now I have also made claims that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandignity.com\/2011\/07\/directly-from-googles-mouth-stop-looking-at-pagerank\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google PageRank<\/a> number actually added to the amount of spam that sits in search. 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