Ranking vs. PR

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ecaria

Dec 2nd 2006, 5:00 pm

In another thread someone said the following:

"Quality AFAIK has absolutely nothing to do with PR. For a site about dogs to get a high PR it doesn't matter whether you buy 10 PR8 links from sites about cats, dogs or knitting. For ranking it does, for PR it's a pile of bollocks suggesting quality matters."

OK...what is the difference between PR and ranking?

akula

Dec 2nd 2006, 5:09 pm

PR is a number from 0-10 that shows the overall quality of your site according to Google.

Ranking is how your site does for a specific key word search.

So if you are PR7 yet rank 1,000,000 for the search term "dog", you won't see traffic for people searching for "dog" no matter how good your site is.

However that garbage BH site that has a PR of 0 but ranks number 1 for "dog" is getting lots of traffic.

***edit....just to clarify PR doesnt actually mean how good your site it, just how it ranks with a really stupid, blockheaded system put forth by your god Google.

KC TAN

Dec 2nd 2006, 5:38 pm

PR is how important Google sees your page.

SERP is how relevant your page relates to the search terms.

Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search.
Source: http://www.google.com/technology/

ecaria

Dec 2nd 2006, 5:46 pm

Thanks...that makes sense. I knew about PR but didn't know how it related to ranking. Anyone want to share more about this? Like how PR relates to ranking (it must, right, cause if it doesn't, why care about it?)

gr8liverpoolfan

Dec 2nd 2006, 8:26 pm

Why care about PR- Helps you in Link exch and Link Sales. Pay a visit to both these forums in DP and you will understand better.

If you want an alternative to PR here it is.. it is a tool on its own
http://www.seomoz.org/tools/page-strength.php

zan_ahmad

Dec 3rd 2006, 12:35 am

KC TAN
what does SERP means?
Does it mean Search Engine Ranking Position?
Sorry i dont know about it :)

KC TAN

Dec 3rd 2006, 12:53 am

KC TAN
what does SERP means?
Does it mean Search Engine Ranking Position?
Sorry i dont know about it :)

SERP == Search Engine Result Page OR Search Engine Ranking Page

zan_ahmad

Dec 3rd 2006, 1:14 am

Oh. thanks i thought it was search engine ranking position.
Thanks

master06

Dec 3rd 2006, 2:09 am

serp is most important thing for hits your site from google. But i think pr too important for serp. Becasue some high pr sites get high serps.

Thanks
Mustafa

w3bmaster

Dec 3rd 2006, 6:48 am

SERPS is what i try to have good PR is a bonus that comes for the hard work to get Rankings

qwestcommunications

Dec 3rd 2006, 1:33 pm

Get traffic and PR will come. However, PR in itself is not hugely important.

riverlee

Dec 4th 2006, 1:59 am

ranking -- cpc/affiliate --- $
PR -- link sale ---$
so ranking is same importment as pr.:D

daboss

Dec 4th 2006, 2:05 am

ranking -- cpc/affiliate --- $
PR -- link sale ---$
so ranking is same importment as pr.:D

best post in this thread! ;)

unless you're selling links, serps is almost always the thing to shoot for.

ecaria

Dec 4th 2006, 12:53 pm

Thanks so much everyone!