Hi Cheater (cant help thats ur nick ) How does the PR7 help u in ur income .. is it indirectly thru higher search results .. or is it mainly from ad/text link sales from ur pr7 pages ...
No glitch.... I have felt all along it was a planned outage. I think we'll eventually hear that there was either a database upgrade, or maybe a recalculation of Internal PR (maybe after a 302 bug fix) and that all non-essential tasks were shut down during the maintenance.
What are you doing inToronto Will. If you had let me know that you were coming to Toronto I would have let you buy me a drink.
I have seen it on all of my sites. Don't worry, It will arrive soon, Google won't be ever too silly to abandon such a great thing.
You have to take your hat off to the ingeniuity of Google! They must have been thinking to themselves, "how will we get people talking about us now this new MSN Search is out and running. I know, we'll turn the PR off on everyones site for a few days and then turn it back on again. Those folks go crazy over that useless tool so it will make them pay attention to us again!" I have to admit, I'm glad what looked like at first to be my site getting some kind of penalisation from a PR5 to a PR1 was actually just Google playing around with our heads and incidentally I have a few more "reported" backlinks for a couple of my sites.
Didn't you feel any different these two days? I did, when I was looking for help yesterday and didn't know the site's status without careful reading. I have been searching an audio software this evening, without PR, it's impossible to find a popular one from hundreds of them. Got it?
That's good. I like that. It just continues to amaze me, with all the evidence that has been offered to the contrary, how some people still think that the entire sercret to high SERP placement revolves around PR. Hell in another thread someone was even using it as the criteria for making online purchases. What?
Compar, you obviously have been in the game so long that you no longer really notice all the misinformation out there. It a perfectly reasonable assumption, it just depends how much you've learnt/ experienced. If you were new this would seem fairly conclusive to you (no PR3s, 4, 5s there). http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=click+here&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 It was Gtech saying he doesnt buy from PR0 and me saying its better than having nothing.
No I actually typed that before I saw your reference to using it for shopping. I just can't believe it. How can PR possible indicate that the product someone is offering is good. The product doesn't have PR. This isn't the good housekeeping stamp of approval. The Better Business Bureau doesn't issue PR. What oh what are you talking about? Remember if the Fort Knox started a web site to sell $100 bills for ten bucks today they wouldn't have any PR for at least three months. In the meantime all you "won't buy if it hasn't got PR" guys and gals would have missed a golden opportunity. It just doesn't make sense.
Probably others aren't as silly as you think, when you have to pick one from hundreds of products, starting from high PR sites make things easier, in most cases I can find a great product from a few PR 7 websits, what's wrong with that? But I can understand well why you don't like PR, you provide seo service, right? A PR 4 page for seo service is just so funny, IMHO .
If PR on your own site is your only way of selling your services then that would be a problem. If your primary selling point is referrals from old customers then it is not a problem. I see the problem with judging sites credability from their PR. Do you say that if I promote my site to a PR7 site you would see that as a voucher for the quality of my site? The fact that we all here know how to get a higher PR (at least in theory) makes me hope that PR is given very little weight when choosing your supplier.
I am a web designer who hasnt made a single update to his site in nearly 2 years (it also has no traffic - but is PR5)
So much for your Humble Opinion. PR has almost nothing to do with SEO. SEO has to do with getting pages placed high in the SERPs. Backlinks and anchor text are still the major things that get pages placed high in the SERPs. However a page with many backlinks will normally also have a reasonable PR. That's what PR is, a measure of the number of backlinks to a page and the PR of the pages issuing those backlink. But while there may be a coorelation between PR and SERP placement there is no cause and effect relationship. To use PR as some type of omnibus site quality and veracity measure is to totally misunderstand and misapply the technology.
I think that judging sites by PR is nothing wrong, but judging only by PR would be very wrong. PR makes things easier as my last thread said, that's all.
I argee with you. I can't see anything wrong to use PR to evaluate a site, as long as you don't use PR as the only criterion. When viewing info or looking for products, I sure give a PR 7 website more credibility than a pr 3 site, but I couldn't buy a product just after I see the green bar, it just make things easier, nothing more.