Does Pagerank still matter?

The only PR you can see is that that is listed on the "little green fuel gauge". That is nothing but a look at the past. What you "see" as PR is worthless. When was the last time Google updated the toolbar?

PR is passed by the URL and not the anchor text. You can achieve a high PR simply by using URL only links pointing at your site. Guess what, you're not going to rank. whoopie... hurray for pr

PR *may* play a role in how deeply your site is indexed and how frequently it's crawled but that's about it.

Dave

 

3 facts I know:

PR could get you double advertising revenue from webmasters advertising on your website.

PR is not counted when it comes to your search rankings.
(Many times I have seen PR4 pages ranked over PR6 on first page of google.)

PR can get you a lot of traffic. ( Press Release . Did you think I was talking about ST.... google PR??? That gets reciprocal link requests...)

 

Matter for what? What did it matter for before?

 

maybe you guys are mistaking the word matter. Anything that gets you money matters,well if you want money. Or you can just be in poverty and make a living off welfare checks

 

PR is everything to me (my main site), I have many #1 positions on many keywords.
PageRank is the best invention since the wheel

 

i think the computer or maybe even internet could top it

 

OO I got scared when your eye winked at me sarah

 

First get a good no of backlinks which are from quality sites and possibly increase theme based links as much as you can. After that shortlist some links with good PR and buy that, that can help but depending only on PR links for rankings is suicidal. Although value of PR links doesnt count much if they are not related to your theme of website. So try to get high PR links from related sites...

 

I think just like everything else, PR has its own perks. It matters where it should. something like link exchanges, when selling your site and at times when you are trying to find advertisers. This is where I find PR matters. Look for example in the link exchange category on this forum. Everything is about PR there.

 

If you took all of the anchor links pointing to your site, and made those links URL only links (no anchor text), you'd have the same PR that you do now.

How many #1 rankings do you think you'd still have?

Dave

 

"PageRank continues to provide the basis for all of our web search tools." -- Google [http://www.google.com/technology/]

 

It's useful for getting link exchanges, mainly because of others who think it's useful for getting link exchanges...

 

There you have it. Google offers the final word in the argument. Yes, it does matter. And even beyond Google's sites, PR will get your more for your links, ads, or even the sale of your entire site. Sure, it's not everything, but it does matter.

 

This was for what i started the thread......has this page even been updated since it was created...

 

No, not to my knowledge.

If PR were removed from the ranking equation today, do you really think the SERP's would be much different?

What if we removed "title" or "content" from the equation.

Sorry, but saying somthing is a "basis" for for something does not mean it carries a lot weight nor does it mean it's more "important".

Punchcard computers are the basis for what we know as computing today.

Dave

 

I find your logic to be, well, illogical.

 

That's for sure. Waiting on a PR update to drop is like watching grass grow.

 

Um, grass actually does grow, paint actually does dry and the phone will eventually ring, bad analogies