After the last PageRank update, my web site has PR 6, but the number of visitors fell about 30%. is this normal?
Your site pagerank does not have a direct relation with the number of visitors you get from Google. There could be millions of other reasons why your number of visitors fell.
Page rank is simply a measure of a URL's link popularity - the quantity of sites that link to your URL and the strength of those links. It has nothing to do with traffic. If you had 1,000,000 sites linking to your home page you might have, say, a PR8 home page... But if they all link to you with crappy link text like "click here" or "get started" then the only phrases you are likely going to rank for at Google are "click here" and "get started". Not many people are searching for those phrases so you could get almost zero traffic from Google. The PR for your URL is only 1 of 200+ ranking factors that Google looks at when they rank that URL for a particular keyword phrase so it carries VERY little weight in how you rank for a particular search phrase. The link text that others use to link to your URL carries MUCH more weight because not only is the link a vote for the page, but the link text tells Google what other unbiased sites think that page is about.
my customer's site . I dont think any financial interests about pr and mywebsites. an international site Turkish and English. google indexes daily but The number of visitors dropped from google . looks like now. a strange situation for me.
Pagerank is to do with how much trust Google gives your site based on your backlinks and has nothing to do with visitors. Visitors are just your physical visitors and dont help increase pagerank.
What does the page rank have to do with traffic? They're totally unrelated. Google isn't everything, there are tons of other search engines and networks that could send you great traffic without having to optimize your site for months. (just a note) not that I'm against Google or anything.. Cheers
U can depend page rank only for comparing your position in Google.But it has nothing to do with traffic.Even though pr adds to the popularity and reputation of your website traffic is not related to pagerank.
Pagerank and trafffic is two different thing as said by others. It is good that you have got a PR6. On the other hand traffic fall might have some other reason. May be the number of competitors increased.
Exactly what they said... PR and traffic are TOTALLY unrelated. Perhaps you should study up on what PR is and how it is calculated... Start here The Anataomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine with Sergey Brin and Larry Page's whitepaper at Stanford which was there blueprint for what was to become Google where they first talked about this thing called page rank (pay special attention to section 2). Once you understand the formula, you will see it is a function of inbound links... a measure of link popularity... Period. Wikipedia also has a decent summary of the formulas as well at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank which are pretty much taken from the previous whitepaper. Once you've absorbed that, if you're still hungry for more then move on to reading some of Google's patents on Page Rank where they explain it as well. Page Rank and your rankings in the SERPs are not the same thing. The Page Rank of your URL is only one of 200+ ranking factors that Google looks at when they are trying to rank your URL for a particular keyword phrase and it carries very little weight in the ranking algorithm. PR just is based on how many links you have... It's a measure of link popularity. PR is really not that important. It's overrated. How you rank in the search engine for keyword phrases that people would likely be using to find your site and other sites about the same topic as yours is MUCH more important than what PR shows up in the little green bar on your Google Toolbar.
This just goes to show that page rank isn't that big of a deal, just keep doing good SEO to get your traffic back up
I'm talking about the visitors (and traffic) from google search results. two different things . I know. maybe. thanks for your replies. best regards.