Quite logical if you apply it. We already know that Google uses a hundred or so factors to determine ranking. What we do not know is what weight each of those are given and to assume each factor is weighted the same would be wrong. Take anchor text. Remove it and you'll see a dramatic drop in SERP's. You can have anchor text pointing to a blank page, ie under construction, and that page will rank for that anchor text. Place the same text on a page but do not have an anchor link using that text pointing to it and the blank page will rank still higher. One only has to do a search for "miserable failure" or "computers" for a further demonstation. Logically, one can easily conclude that anchor text is given more weight than on page factors when it comes to ranking. One only has to look at the number of low PR pages that outrank higher PR pages to logically conclude that PR itself, "the basis for all of Google's web search tools" does not have a large effect on rankings. Certainly not near the effect that anchor text has for example. Additionally, the "basis" which they speak of is most likely the means in which it is caculated and NOT the actual PR itself. Dave
I'm not sure if it matters... I set up a site and within a month it was at PR5 and that was without many, if any backlinks at all. 4 months and 2,500 backlinks later from relevant blogs/sites, still at PR5. But that means nothing. Traffic levels are still 30-50 unique a day
it is useful to gain in link exchange for your ibl's and even in submissions you can look in the pageranks for the quality of the sites.
I have this website/blog that I created a few months ago. It has no backlinks whatsoever and just a few pages of content. There has been no update to the blog or site since I started it. And yet it has a PR of 3! What the bleep??? I am starting to think that I get pagerank just for showing up on the web now
I think pagerank indicates how often the site is crawled. E.g. a PR8 will be craweled daily for updates while a PR4 will be crawled weekly.
This is just my opinion, i could be wrong. PR IMHO does not improve your SERP. But it is an advantage. If both of us post about a current event that just happened an hour ago, a person with a blog/site of PR8 will be indexed first, so the blo/site is more likely to get the visitors that seek info about current event than my blog which has a PR4.
Sure, but in your opinion is it the PR that is making that happen, or the factors on your site that also determine your PR?
I would say PR does matter sometimes to get rank your site higher.. Better the link popularity better the rankings.. thats funda so if you good PR linking to you.. you *MAY* get higher rankings
PR is NOTHING! I only care about my search engine ranking...I wont waste my time to boost my sites PR...
I think one should should be concerned only about getting relevant links. And once you think you have enough of that than go for some high PR links...
Thank u all for your discussion and giving such important information related to PR. Yes PR matters....
Hello, According to the latest updates Page Rank does not matters now.What matters that your content for a particular source must be unique to give an advantage to your source with some relevancy.Page Rank offers more back links for you.
I dont think Pagerank matters much.As Pagerank is only number indicating views of page in eyes of Google