Gabs, Is that a guess or feel good idea? or have you resolved into that thinking by some sort of experiment? It seems right but pretty hard to firmly nail down.. If so what you are saying is 'pay attention to link partners or BLs that are up to date or refresh often'. Also just added news feeds from MSn, Google and Yahoo to all my martial arts styles description pages - shame its in javascript See http://www.martialarm.com/information/martial-directory.html and its links
PR is good to check relevant sites importance, to exchange links or get uni directional ones. Also, we never reciprocate links with PR0s. They may be new sites, which is Ok, but they can also be sites that have been penalized. This said, as far as rank/PR relationships go, I will not mention the name (I am sure anyone can guess) of a very well known SEO company that was heavily penalized by Google and now shows a PR0. If you search for SEO company, the site is on page 4, which isn't too bad for a pretty competitive key phrase....My point is, ranks and PR are not so intimately related as some may think...
Its just logical and wouldn't apply 100% to everything but it would apply in so many cases.. I'm finding hard to think of a case it would apply.. Please sugest a case that the below would not apply ? Why ? Well many many sites update their homepage with new content for example. A great example is a blog or news site.. So the most freshist info rises to top which normally has the highest pr.. After say a day its drops down the pile and becomes 1 link away from the hp the next day 2 link and so on.. In regards to e-commerce site, well i've got a new product so I do the same, slame it on the homepage.. And the same thing happens again.. Of course this is happen all the times and many of your links.. I don't know the agree links to a single site but lets say 4,000 so this would create waves in your PR and of course your serps.. Just imho Hope that make some sense ?
Well it seems many say PR is just not important yet it is the factor that ranks the selling of links and also points given in linkvault - COOP etc And this latest update or whatever - seems to have dropped some sites PR down even alot http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=163382
Personally, I think PR is very, very important still to Google ranks. But I don't think the number you see on your toolbar is even close to being the real PR.
So you think they are giving webmasters what they want - some visual representation of one importance - but it is well off the mark or only one tenth of the truth..
well it happened again PR dropped but traffic went up. I also wonder if my site isnt placed in random positions within the top 50. I dont think SERPs are static anymore...
I totally agree with the above, the increase in your traffic simply because of the link-delay filter so once the Backlinks and the PR updated on Google servers then the value of your old links was boosted to your site and it went up in the SERP's which increased your traffic.