Hi, I see a lot of people on several forums still debating about pagerank, but why?? Link selling will get you a lower PR, your rankings are not associated with your PR either!! Isn't it all about traffic and rankings (serps) ? I don't get the discussion point! Pagerank is useless is my statement, post below if you agree or disagree and come with good arguments! I might do a follow up post about this on my blog if you show me some good arguments!
Its really just bragging rights.....anything over PR4 means you have something like 5,000 backlinks accumulated. I'd be happy with a PR4 by the way, which is why I'm here!
You are spot on mate. Spot on. Don't bother with a follow up post on your blog. Continue the direction you are in. Let the children fight about pagerank and you become successful while they play.
Who told you that? PR is still important, those persons still believing PR is important than they don't know about the importance of SERP's and Business traffic to their website.
Whatever helps you sleep at night. Give me a PR2 site that ranks number 1 for "cheap mortgage" over a PR8 site that ranks number 41 any day.
PR is opium of the people. It's completely useless, what matters is high quality relevant inbound links and good content, pagerank has nothing to do with that. Every quarter there is a pagerank update, but has anyone experienced an increase in SERP rankings after a PageRank update? No, the result pages are being updated continuously. Some people think pagerank matters because they see high pagerank websites ranking high in the serps but the pagerank is just a side effect of the good backlinks they have.
I believe PR is overrated, however it still sells links Just keep in mind theres very little out there to judge the SEO quality of a site just by looking at it quickly like PR can do. Its hard to judge a sites traffic when you buy a link on it, but easy to see if at least google considers the site quality. Not sure why people would argue about it though, whats there to argue about?
We have seen instances where new websites ( 3-4 months old) with few back links are beating well-established websites having PR4-5 and several hundred back links. Page Ranking algorithm is not at all related with actual ranking algorithm of Google. The actual ranking algorithm of Google relies on TRUST RANK of any website rather than Page Rank. Therefore you should consider increasing TRUST RANK by following a natural SEO optimization techniques. This will be beneficial to your website in long term.
if someone says that he doesn't care about PR that only means, he doesn't need traffic or he got PR0 ...
"Isn't it all about traffic and rankings (serps) ?" The most important thing is the traffic and search results ranking. PR will not bring traffic. I guess people want a good PR because its good to see a more green bar, in the tool bar
Some time ago I sold a PR5 site on DP. During the sales thread there was a Google spasm and all sites lost all PR in the toolbar. It caused many interested parties to pull out of that sales thread. Whatever the general concensus about the value of PR when it comes to selling/buying a site, PR still matters.
I gave up on PR ages ago i just do whatever is neccessary to get my site as high as possible in the search engines, if that gives me a higher PR then great if doesn't then so what as long as i achieve what i want that is all that really matters.
PR is worthless no matter how you look at it. Those guys are worried about PR because they most probably want to inflate the value of their sites.
I agree its about bragging rights.....A website owner should be concerned with SERP and the improvement of SERP.
For years, it has been THE gauge / basis for checking the quality, success, authority of one's site and perhaps people who doesn't know any better still thinks the same.
General surfers dont care about PR, most of them dont even know what is PR. PR is still imp only for webmasters, not for general surfers.