Traffic does effect your pr but its not a major factor and is based over a long period of time. The amount of people who bookmark your page also plays a role in this but its a very small one. the key thing in pr is high pr sites like pr6 pr7 and pr8 linking to your site this is why people wright articles and have them submitted to article directories there are a lot of high ranking article directories out there.
Okay well another question for you all. Im keen to see your predictions. Say i have these three sites. Site #1. Is PR4. 5000 back links site #2 is pr3. 2000 backlinks site #3 Pr2. 14 000 backlinks. Say site 1 and 3 get Pr7 links, from a page/site with 20 outbound links. And site 2 gets one from a pr7 site/ high authority with 5 outbound links. What do you think the PR will be next update? Also thanks for all your responses, its clear to me traffic has nothing to do with page rank, although both are ideal.
Instead of trying to predict something that is meaningless unless you're link selling. Try improve your SERPs.
Serps are good. Im just interested, so please have a guess. I just have nothing else to do with my time. Cheers mate, joey112
PR no longer carries the weight that it use to a couple of years ago. (very long time in internet age) The only people who will claim that it is sooooo important are the PR link sellers. They are crooks for the most part because they know they are selling something with much less value than they say. Having a number of higher PR sites pointing to your site will definitely help, but unless you do the links properly you may be throwing away the value of the link anyways.
A lot of that is true but there are some honest seo company's out there and pr is still important if you want to rank high for your keywords just because a pr0 site beats a pr5 site for the word ice cream does not mean that the pr5 site will get beat out for the word ice cream sandwich there are many different factors in any case. you can create pages like search engine landing pages except get them listed for free as long as your homepage links to them and there on your Google site map that you upload by doing this you can focus on one to two keywords per page this really helps if your going after a popular keyword like internet marketing. You should also have your domain paid up for ten years. the thing about pr is how old is the pr0 site and and how old is the pr5 site and how long are there domains paid up to. then comes keywords and back links. and if you want your back link to count then anchor it with your key word. this is where article directories come into play but if someone tells you they can get you 500 back links for for 30 bucks then just flush your money down the toilet because it is a lie because it would take a whole day to submit 500 links and then only about half of those are going to accept your article. You got to ask your self a couple of questions like is this guy really going to do all this for 30 bucks, is he going to submit my site to gambling directories, or anything bad that might hurt my site, how do i know if my site got listed to any directories at all, and the final question is are 90% of all the directories a pr0 (yes they are especially when the number is as high as 500). You can buy links on eBay but there mostly scammers doing it for next to nothing so if some one put an auction on there for true seo work with a way to guarantee that it was done correctly for a fair and honest pay rate everyone would still bid on the 30 dollar scammer because lets face it now more then ever people are just tight wads and want something for nothing so bad that they will get ripped off before they spend a 100 bucks or they think that there going to be number one over night for a keyword thats popular on a national level because they have read so many seo scam lines. Honestly if you know a little about web design and can do it your self take the keyword you are chasing type it in Google and open the site then click view in the top of your browser then click source thats the guts of that site look it over thats part of why that site is number 1. if you look at the source and it looks like chineese then go to ebay and spend 30 bucks lol.