A WebmasterWorld thread has a rant from a webmaster and site owner who goes off on people who judge his site based on it’s Google PageRank value, yes the toolbar PageRank. He said he is sick and tired of people judging how authoritative and creditable his site is based on how many green bars are lighting up in Google Toolbar.

This user said:

If you saw the number of emails I received from people wanting to buy ad space on this site. I would have to say 50% of them or more use Google PageRank as an ad metric when quantifying how much they should pay for an ad on this site. I find it incredibly ridiculous and often don’t reply to such emails. But yes, I am a bit tired hearing toolbar PageRank used as value in determining a site’s authority.

Link building moderator, Martinibuster said:

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

This was written on March 29th and schedule to go live March 30th.