A PR5 100 page site doesn't start out with too bad of a weight...I'm guessing here, but I think it'd be something close to 4200 -- the weight on the PR side looks at the main page, not every single page (that may change in the future), so adding additional content won't be at a reduced rate of weight expansion. It isn't quantity over quality...Shawn made sure of that with the cap (which seems to be around 1000 pages or so) -- I have a site with thousands of pages via the API that has a 54,000 weight; should I be complaining that these PR4 pages don't count [they are high quality pages]? No. I'm still amptly rewarded via the COOP, and I'm really still learning on how best to utilize it. Cygnus
Let's say your talking SEO. Would you buy sitewide links on a PR5 blog with 100 PR4 pages or a PR5 message board with 150 PR0 pages? I know I'd go for the blog - it's better quality. However the message board would have better weight. There are several bloggers I know who hesitate to join because of this discrepancy.
I agree with this. Shawn should phase out PR as being a major factor in the Coop and possibly focus it more on the no. of indexed pages. Can't really go by backlinks, because that's what the Coop is all about ... providing backlinks and the more weight you get the more backlinks supposedly therefore your weight will just continue to increas as your backlinks do, one feeding the other. Due to the lack (i know there was one yesterday & still going on) of PR updates I don't believe it fair to those who do have large new sites, but with no PR and do decide to put Coop Ads on them. I know it's hard, but IMO PR should be a minimal factor.