Somehow I feel that all that hype about PR is pure s***! OK, maybe I don't know much about it or don't know enough, but for the revenue I get from my site it is not important at all. Let's face it - what PR actually is? You will get better position on the search engine? No. You will get more traffic? No. What you will get? Nothing, I guess. I have optimised my site so well that on the certain keywords it is nr1 on google and it works better than anything else I have experimented with, including google AdWords (most of the AdWors traffic is c***!). My PR was 2 few weeks ago, now it is 3-4 depends of the page, and domain itself is PR 4. It means s*** my friends, there is same amount of traffic and same revenue from the day one (OK i have improved some other things on the site so revenue is growing, but I get nothing from PR) - I think that all people that have spend hundred of dollars to place their links on PR 5/6/7 or whatever PR page just wasted their money... Work on the content and focus on the keywords - and rule number one - update your page at least 3 times a week!!!! If somebody can explain me what is the REAL importance of PR I would be very gratefull! Thanks
You get to sell you links for a higher price? YES Quite important to a lot of people around here. You get a boner bragging about how high your site PR is? YES Again, important to some!
PR just one of the many factors that will influence your SERPs. Yeah I agree that it not that important but of course you still can get something from it. If you know that high PR site can earn money from placing link, so you can so the same. PR just some kind of tools to let your visitor trust in your sitebut yeah it'not everything your need to focus on.
The short answer: Paris Hilton matters because people believe she does therefore she matters. PR matters because people believe it does therefore it matters.
OK, I know it means BUSINESS otherwise not Google or anybody else will do it - but what is the benefit for you as a webmaster? (besides selling links - and let's face it, NOT everybody sell their links, old good exchange will do as well...) This is not the point however, I'm just trying to determine a REAL importance of that famous PR!!?! If you manage to sell few links so what? That is not steady revenue (unless you run directories which you do...) I guess you know what I mean...
Exactly, I have posted that before when I saw a PR is not important thread. Perception is everything. Intrinsic value means little sometimes in this game.
If your site got high Pr. I think you can do more think then low Pr. such need to Link exchange your will easy to got back link right
I agree that some webmasters are making their 'link or not' decisions based on PR, but that is shortsighted, I think content and overall quality of the site is more important...at least for me. well at least I see that lot of you agree with me that PR is NOT IMPORTANT! Good luck to all of you, make a tons of cash and...let's get down to the SEO work....
I agree completely with you. Google PR is a matter of prestige for a webmaster. It is actually not of great importance if you have enough traffic and good position for your keywords.
I have a PR8 site (im dreaming) I sell 1 tiny text link for $50 a month. I sell 20 of them. I earn $1000 a month for doing hardly anything. so is PR s**t???? i think not....
I think you're rather proving his point, mikey. PR is of significance ONLY to people in the business of selling links. The vast majority of people who use the net, or have a web-site, aren't in that business. And for getting links, personally I look for relevance over everything else - but then again, I never buy links.
You are right. PR is not important, because you get PR because of having inlinks. You do not get inlinks because of having PR.
Please prove me wrong if "you have a good combination of high quality content and high PR your website will be HIGHLY RATED ON GOOGLE?" I say yes. I value pr to the extent as it is a measure of your link success (usually 3 months ago) and this is not very bad. Nowadays since google started the LINKS section in their webmasters central I don't really look at the pr but rather the link text and the number of links ..... PR is not bad and its still a good value of how good your website is! Buying links from high PR websites -- that's BS! Having large number of links is the key not having high pr links! Cheers, Venetsian.
everyday i see how websites with lower PR get higher posiotions..may be it is fluent but anyway trust rank i think more important then PR
Here I have a copy from the new google patent: Here we must also note that NEW Domains might have certain advantages from old domains: [0041] Consider the example of a document with an inception date of yesterday that is referenced by 10 back links. This document may be scored higher by search engine 125 than a document with an inception date of 10 years ago that is referenced by 100 back links because the rate of link growth for the former is relatively higher than the latter. While a spiky rate of growth in the number of back links may be a factor used by search engine 125 to score documents, it may also signal an attempt to spam search engine 125. Accordingly, in this situation, search engine 125 may actually lower the score of a document(s) to reduce the effect of spamming. read more here