Does google pagerank really make a difference to anything on your website or how its listed in search engines?
Personally I don't think PR matters one Iota. I have sites that are very low PR that get many more natural hits from the search engines than my other higher PR sites 4/5..
Generally the higher the PR the deeper the crawl. Outside that, it is about as useful as a good alexa ranking.
That is what I have found also Mia. Page rank determines how deep a site is crawled. It can therefore affect rankings but only because you may have some obscure content deep in your site. Page rank is only occasionally published, as such it is a retrospective figure.
PR preferences vary with what you want to do with your site. I have been told by some folks that PR is a deciding factor for some of them who are deciding whether to do business with a company because they feel it is a sign of trustworthiness. Others find PR important when requesting links to their site from yours because of neighborhood reputations. Some people don't actually care about PR and think it matters little, but with algorithims changing quite frequently, I'd never just shrug it off.
PR is usually higher when a site has been around for a long time and has thousands of backlinks. I don't think it's really critical though to how much traffic you receive. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I really do not think the longeivity had much to do with it. Backlins, yes... Lots of them? NO. A few quality backlinks is better than thousands of crappy ones. I've got a PR6 site that has just 35 back links.... Thousands? Not necessarily.
Once more, all things being equal between two websites, the one with higher PR will show first. Sure sites with low PR can receive lots more traffic from SE if their keywords match batter or the phase of the moon is just right, but if everything is really equal (including content) then yes PR can make a difference. Its not dead yet.
Well that's kind of obvious. That's like saying... If there are 2 bowls of fruits, except bowl A had 1 more banana, which bowl is more valuable to a fruit fly. lmao. PR matters, but not much. Try to evenly distribute PR amongs all your pages.
Well PR,I think give your site some indication of how trustworthy or how important the site is,but PR will not neccessarily boost your rankings based on a good PR.IMHO.
I'd say the short answer was no. Unless you are looking to sell text links? and perhaps its useful as a guide to how often a site may be crawled by search engines if your looking to get your site indexed quickly.
I personely feel PR is good for a long run . It is logical ,PR is tool invented by google itself based on the alogorithm which define there search criterions , so definetly has weight.
I have no proof but i believe high PR sites mean more frequent crawling. Logically it makes sense, there must be a measure that Google uses to instruct Googlebot to crawl. I mean Digg, Wikipedia are surely crawled more often than an average blog.
I believe your site can only gain heigher PR when there is frequent crawling, but keep in mind that there should be site upgradation on regular interval that means content addition another facter effecting PR is your back Link.