The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

I've heard so much about how PageRank isn't that important to Google anymore -- but there are many reports of SEO tricks that get people on the first page of Google for common queries. It seems like it's still quite important after all.

Those can both be true. PageRank is a relic of a time when search engines more consistently returned the same results for the same query. These days we're all filter bubbled with personalized results

They may have abandoned the actual page-rank scoring system (a quite specific implementation) without wholly abandoning the idea of using "who links to who" as a quality signal.