What effect does pagerank have on a site's value?

I have a few sites that the pagerank has gone up on, 2 are PR3 now, but I'd like to know what value is put on different PR's. I know PR1 is less valuable than PR2, is less valuable than PR3 etc. but is there a minimum value that a website could or would sell for depending on it's pagerank? I.E a PR1 site would be worth $x and PR2 worth $xx and so on....

Is there a guideline published anywhere? Or a rule of thumb? I've searched and been unable to find an answer anywhere. I may sell some sites soon so it'd be handy to know what I could ask for as a starting price and expect as a final price (or at least have some idea).

Thoughts please

 

I personally don't care about the PR of the domain and I prefer to scope on the traffic. One of my PR1 websites is making 6 times more traffic than my friend's PR5 website.

 

I agree, traffic on relevant keywords is the #1 indicator of value, but Page Rank does give you a ballpark indication of where you are in the grand scheme of things.

 

PR/Links are all important in the "scheme"

 

according to google: pages receive a higher PageRank are more "likely" to appear at the top of the search results. "likely" so there is no assurance.. but it helps.. since it also can achieve by gathering links.

 

yes, you right
traffic very important than PR

 

it makes all the difference. I am earning a lot from one of my blog which do not have a very good outlook but a decent ranking in search results while my other good blogs with poor ranking are not giving good returns . You can check my blogs in my signature.

 

PR is about 1% importance compared to traffic that converts and where you come in serps for the right keywords

I have seen PR1 sites rank higher in serps than PR5 sites for some keyword phrases

PR is just one factor in the Google scheme, so don't neglect the other engines as their traffic is just as valuable, if not more valuable than that from the Big G!

 

pagerank help in ranking some time and in link exchange it help us

 

Dosen't getting a backlink from a high pr site also help Google decide the weight of that link, thus giving more weight to the site it links too?

 

as a rule: try to get competitive kw for your optimization.

 

More high quality backlinks, your site will have a high pr,and i think if your interexnal links are expedited ,the PR will pass to other pages ,it is well for your site.
Of course, i think the content is the most important thing.

 

It has value for link sale solo.

 

This is a bit more involved than I expected, I did think there would be any easy answer, ah well...

I have a small proxy network (amongst other things) and they all link to each other (and why not) but one is several months old and has dozens of uniques/hundreds of page loads daily but is only PR1. Another is only a month old with little traffic, several hits a day on a good day but ranks as PR3. Yet another has steady traffic dozens hits/100's page loads and that's PR3, not so much of a surprise. The most income comes from a PR0 proxy tho', with little traffic but high paying click rates. I'm kinda confused by this myself, that's why I wanted to know more about it.

There's no substitute for proven income tho', imo, as regards a sites value. I know proxies aren't looked upon as major sources and don't command top dollar either but they're good to practice on

If PR is good for link sales maybe I'll have to concentrate on that, just build the PR and traffic then sell ad space. I have had some hosting issues lately too, with exploits and the like, but that doesn't seem to have had a detremental effect on PR, just traffic. Interesting none the less....

 

Not exactly. PR is determined through its own specific algorithm.

A page that has a high PR has more that it can potentially share. However, if that high PR page has 100 links on it, then you are only getting 1/100th of the PR of that page. So, you could essentially get more strength from a PR2 page with 10 links on it, versus a PR5 with 100 links.

Which is yet one more reason why PR is not as important as what everyone wants it to be.

 

i completly agree!
well said
+rep!

 

Ah yes! I remember now!

 

You guys have about sum it up Page rank is also a good indicator for domain and advertising value

 

It is highly complex for example you could have a PR10 site on "pine cones" or a PR4 site on "Credit Card Tips" , but the second site is likely to be more highly valued and more saleable because it is in a competative niche.

 

No there is no guidance publishes , Its all of us crazily be after it

Google says design website for user and not for PR or google