What exactly is the point of the OP? PageRank obviously has value, just open your eyes and look at all the cash flow it controls on DP alone each day. Nobody ever said PR gets you traffic, and if they did they should be poked in the eye.
The higher the pagerank, the higher you will rank in google search engine, given, the site is the same. So why it should have no value? And to say it's only an indicator is hairsplitting. Then lets say it indicates a value...
no, he just wanted to say that www.dmoz.org has a PR 0 now and this shows that PR isn't important factor
no no guys I did not mean that. May be I gave a wrong title to it. Ofcourse if you have a high pr then your site stands as a reputed one and as far as cash flow is concerned it is directly propertional. But my point is that you dont get trafic because of trafic but you get page rank based on traffic. So higher the trafic higher may be the PR but not necessasirly the reverse. My advice is focus on good SEO so that your site is ranked high. If you just run after PR then it is like running after the spedo meter without looking into the engine. Few people gave me red because they see the post as ridiculous and some see it as waste of time. Well its your personal view. I dont ask you to follow my advice. Indeed I did not give any advice here. I just sharede my views and asked for your views so that we can share knowledge and do better.
PR is a very small part of Google's algo, and getting smaller all the time. Along with a hundred other factors it has some influence on SERPS but not a direct influence. It's just a by-product, an indication of link popularity, that's all. I buy links all the time, and PR is not important to me (Page Strength is).
You are getting criticism, rightly fully so, because you are giving flat out wrong advise. Your theories are crap and you keep digging yourself a bigger hole by continuing to post.
Yeah.. first you say "page rank is not important"... then you say "work on seo to increase your pagerank"....
This is what I have been trying to explain. Thank you for the advice. I see you are right. I tried to do something good but somehow it has turned negetive at me. So is wise not to cnotinue any more. I think this will be my last post on the thread unless I notice something real positive. And for sure I would avoid such post in future. Actually I did not say work on seo to increase your pagerank. I said work on seo to increase your site ranking means your SERP so that you are ranked well on search engine result and get good visitors.
Please kindly allow me to share my personal point of view. Page rank is important in term of getting more attention from search engine spider, example, DP, Currently Active Users: 1,218 (378 members and 840 guests), i believe almost more than 20% of the guests is search engine spider because DP have high page rank. If you do not believe the statement here, create a forum, boost the page rank to 6, add modules to seperate guests from spiders and you will be shock with the result. There are a lot of way to get traffics. If you are thinking of advertise your site using cpc or offline advertisement, you have to continue the campaign. I tried offline advertisement before and my web traffic increase from 350 visitors per day to 2k visitors per day but when the compaign stop, the traffic drop. This is why a lot of smart webmasters trying the latest concept - auto traffic building system where your clients is the one who help you to promote your site. A simple example, rapidshare. They offer something free for everyone but when you post the file url into any forum or any sites, they got backlinks and traffic ( direct or indirect ). Same concep apply to neo counter.