Y people say PR is worthless??

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  1. rsrikanth05

    rsrikanth05 Well-Known Member

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    #21
    What are SERPs?
     
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  2. godsofchaos

    godsofchaos Peon

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    Yes bro that was for you :) Sorry I couldn't quote your words cause I'm talking from my mobile phone's opera mini lol. I know!@hijacking lol. @Domainfatigue
     
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  3. tejas_vern

    tejas_vern Peon

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    #23
    Search Engine Results Page = SERP
     
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    DomainFatigue Peon

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    #24
    I hope you are right, but as long as it stays up on the first page, I guess I shouldn't really care...
     
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  5. godsofchaos

    godsofchaos Peon

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    #25
    Search Engine Results Page or Search Engine Ranking Position :)
     
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  6. tejas_vern

    tejas_vern Peon

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    #26
    lol So why is Pagerank introduced when google doesnt take it in account of SERPs?
     
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    trocobob Banned

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    #27
    PR show the general quality of the whole site . and the average PR class of our website .
     
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  8. pioneer1

    pioneer1 Peon

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    #28
    PR is a gimmick and for entertainment only

    A reason for you to download Goolge toolbar
    :)
     
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  9. Trapped

    Trapped Well-Known Member

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    #29
    That might be true, but...does a faked RSS feed number has any relation with traffic?

    How ever, PR is anyway related to overall SEO, just that PR is a result of a total backlinks, while SEO (or rather SERPs ranking for certain keywords) is a total of backlinks with chosen keyword in anchor text.

    What this means is that you can have backlinks from other high PR sites and increase your pagerank, but does not mean you will rank high for a certain keyword.
     
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  10. lightlysalted

    lightlysalted Active Member

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    #30
    PR does matter but good SEO works matters more. Think about the names of your webpages, and use those same keywords in the body of your text on that page.
     
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  11. rohan_shenoy

    rohan_shenoy Active Member

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    #31
    One of my sites (not the one in my siggy) has PR 1. But its like the only site on that niche. So even if I have PR 1, I have good traffic.

    I just checked now and found out that my site has PR 1 not zero...looks like update :D
     
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  12. PlateFish

    PlateFish Banned

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    #32
    PR is just a measurement. It's only use is proof that your site ranks well and therefore you can sell links for higher prices as you have more "google juice". In essence, PR does absolutely nothing except measure your site's ranking. It brings 0 traffic.
     
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  13. KC TAN

    KC TAN Well-Known Member

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    PageRank is taken into account for SERP computation. For anyone that doubt this, refer to Google official page:
    http://www.google.com/technology/

    To many webamsters, PR is worthless because it is the traffic that counts.. but to many advertisers, they still look for PageRank and of course, other factors. Imagine if you are advertising between two sites of the same traffic but one has the higher PageRank than the other (with other factors the same), who would you choose?
     
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    #34

    Thank goodness someone said it... :D

    PR=PageRank and is alive and well...

    TBPR=ToolBar PageRank and is a different animal peeps....

    The Rest? SEO Onions folks.... nuff said...
     
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  15. steev22

    steev22 Banned

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    Because most of people here think that they are SEO expert and start commenting but they don't know the real relation between these two.Actually PR is based on back links from relevant sites and so it is directly related to traffic but most of people get PR by directory submissions or other unfair means so they cant get traffic and they start thinking there is no relation between them.
     
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  16. Sem-Advance

    Sem-Advance Notable Member

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    #36
    Advertisers could care less what your PR or SERP rankings are.

    Your banker could care less what your PR or SERP rankings are.

    Major investors could care less what your PR or SERP rankings are.

    Your mortgage holder or landlord does not care what your PR or SERP rankings are.

    Try to get an IPO going with PR or Rankings as the metric and watch how fast potential investors run laughing.......

    As for PR... how many of you were able to pay a bill with your PageRank????

    ;)
     
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  17. godsofchaos

    godsofchaos Peon

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    #37
    PR has nothing to do with earning money, at least not for me. PR is satisfaction and addition to my power in the rankings page... ACK!!!!@linkselling/buying for PR
     
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  18. ЄxDeus™

    ЄxDeus™ Well-Known Member

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    #38
    PR is Not worthless because people spend money on it. As soon as some one wants something and is willing to spend money on it, its no longer worthless.
     
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  19. casinouk

    casinouk Peon

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    #39
    Tejas, i am with you.
    These all people who says PR is worthless are made,
    Honestly post after my this comment,
    place post any one of you, don't you want High PR for your website?
    Every one wants it, but would like to show off, how much they got traffic to their websites, and by impressing one can give them a SEO projects,

    Honestly tell me w3master and other who says, PR is worthless, how many of your sites are ranked by Google as Authority site?

    Tejas. i would like to say...

    High Traffic + High PR = Successful SEO.

    Tejas, Really PR matters, this all are made guys running in desert with water and thinking which is the best place to drink water.
     
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  20. jackass2007

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    #40
    PR has nothing much to do with traffic that pretty much explains why do many people call it worthless :)
     
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