Does PageRank really matter to a website?

[forumlover]

Does google pagerank really make a difference to anything on your website or how its listed in search engines?

[andre75]

YES. Its one of the parameters and noone knows how it influences things but the short answer is YES

[forumlover]

How do I get it up, is it just about links on other sites?

[forumlover]

Or does traffic affect it as well, as long as how long the sites been around?

[lurkster]

Incoming links from relevant authoritive sites definatley help. PR updates about quarterly.

[finqoo]

Personally I don't think PR matters one Iota. I have sites that are very low PR that get many more natural hits from the search engines than my other higher PR sites 4/5..

[Mia]

Does google pagerank really make a difference to anything on your website or how its listed in search engines?

Generally the higher the PR the deeper the crawl. Outside that, it is about as useful as a good alexa ranking.:rolleyes:

[fastback72]

That is what I have found also Mia. Page rank determines how deep a site is crawled. It can therefore affect rankings but only because you may have some obscure content deep in your site. Page rank is only occasionally published, as such it is a retrospective figure.

[Hoosierhunter]

PR preferences vary with what you want to do with your site. I have been told by some folks that PR is a deciding factor for some of them who are deciding whether to do business with a company because they feel it is a sign of trustworthiness. Others find PR important when requesting links to their site from yours because of neighborhood reputations. Some people don't actually care about PR and think it matters little, but with algorithims changing quite frequently, I'd never just shrug it off.

[Scot King]

PR is usually higher when a site has been around for a long time and has thousands of backlinks. I don't think it's really critical though to how much traffic you receive. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Mia]

I really do not think the longeivity had much to do with it. Backlins, yes... Lots of them? NO. A few quality backlinks is better than thousands of crappy ones.

I've got a PR6 site that has just 35 back links.... Thousands? Not necessarily.

[andre75]

Once more, all things being equal between two websites, the one with higher PR will show first.
Sure sites with low PR can receive lots more traffic from SE if their keywords match batter or the phase of the moon is just right, but if everything is really equal (including content) then yes PR can make a difference.
Its not dead yet.

[bluesync]

Once more, all things being equal between two websites, the one with higher PR will show first.
Sure sites with low PR can receive lots more traffic from SE if their keywords match batter or the phase of the moon is just right, but if everything is really equal (including content) then yes PR can make a difference.
Its not dead yet.

Well that's kind of obvious.

That's like saying... If there are 2 bowls of fruits, except bowl A had 1 more banana, which bowl is more valuable to a fruit fly.

lmao.

PR matters, but not much. Try to evenly distribute PR amongs all your pages.

[Dassie]

Well PR,I think give your site some indication of how trustworthy or how important the site is,but PR will not neccessarily boost your rankings based on a good PR.IMHO.

[BFTUK]

YES. Its one of the parameters and noone knows how it influences things but the short answer is YES

I'd say the short answer was no.

Unless you are looking to sell text links? and perhaps its useful as a guide to how often a site may be crawled by search engines if your looking to get your site indexed quickly.

[Software_outsourcing]

I personely feel PR is good for a long run . It is logical ,PR is tool invented by google itself based on the alogorithm which define there search criterions , so definetly has weight.

[infonote]

I have no proof but i believe high PR sites mean more frequent crawling.

Logically it makes sense, there must be a measure that Google uses to instruct Googlebot to crawl.

I mean Digg, Wikipedia are surely crawled more often than an average blog.

[cocaine]

And more frequent crawling means more popularity.
PR really matters for search engine traffics.

[james king]

I believe your site can only gain heigher PR when there is frequent crawling, but keep in mind that there should be site upgradation on regular interval that means content addition another facter effecting PR is your back Link.

[aramiK]

If you want to sell text links it does, if not... not really

[andre75]

If PR really doesn't matter, how come I haven't found a single person with a PR higher than mine willing to exchange links?
I think PR is very important. Maybe not so much for the SERPS (altough I personally believe it makes a difference) but for you to be able to increase linkage.

[Lexiseek]

PR, so they say...is the root of all evil today.

But if you ask for any rises...no surprises....they ain't giving none away.

Personally, I think PR matters a LOT. I think the PR you see on your toolbar is six months old, so that doesn't matter.

[tekmox]

Funny thing is, I have some websites that has like PR5 or PR6 but they are not really great websites and doesn't generate that much traffic.

Personally, I think when you are doing SEO, you should just try to do the best you can and boost everything up. No one really knows for sure how the algorithims works so better be safe then sorry.

[garywhw]

PR is an indication of your website quality according to Google's point of view.
It helps your rank on other SE too though.

high PR is not equal to high traffic. Depending on the competitiveness of the keywords.

Keyword 'asjk8r84j' with PR 8 site will be bothered. Nobody will find such keyword.

Also, your high PR may compete with other high PR sites too.

Remember : High traffic is your ultimate goal, not high PR

[Hoosierhunter]

Nod traffic has a lot to do with competition and keyword preferences. I would prefer better traffic to higher PR.

[siong1987]

Some advertisers may look at your PageRank first before advertising in your website.

[Freewebspace]

Yes it does really matter as you may get higher ranking in Google if you have higher page rank than your competitor

[webmasterlabor.com]

It matters but it appears, to me at least, that the value Google gives it varies from update to update. It is just ONE factor in a (confidential) basket of factors that affects how well your SERPs do at Google.

[eSpenders.com]

i think thats what page rank means! the rank you site is listed in search engine's

[myoptimind]

good PR means, your site is good..

[fadetoblack]

doesnt not matter if u want tio recive just high traffic

does matter if u want to receve higher SERP

[SALINAS]

Good stuff. Thanks!