Google PR

PageRank was and will still one of the most important factors to rank websites within Google SERP's.

 

I work for an advertising company with an ecommerce website - we sell/ship products nationally via the web. We have grown by leaps and bounds over the last 2 years, and I have worked hard on improving our web presence. That being said, I still wonder how we shoot from a PR5 to a PR3 and then back up and down again over the course of a year...it just doesn't appear that Google has a method to their PR#.

Anyone have any insight into this? We rank #1 on Google for many great keywords and we are all over the web for numerous verticals (articles, PR, forums, banner ads, etc) - but the PR# seems to not reflect any of this progress.

 

well i am busy in writing good content plus some good back link and i am in looking to rank in top ten, dont think about high pr these days....but looks to get links from high pr pages

 

There was a change some time ago in the PR system and they could have redefined its purpose again.

PR seems to be more of a measure of quality/visits (like alexa) that a measure of strength in the serps.

 

i still believe its one of the greatest determinants of serps

 

I am focus on my SERPS now and PR is just by the way.

 

You asked When is google update? I saw on another forum that one guy which is a SEO Pro seems to think the update is this weekend. I am sure no one knows for sure but he has been pretty close in the past.

 

Look at the traffic. If the traffic on your website will increase the PR will increase as well....

 

Yes, Pls check you google backlink. it was updated.

 

The most stupid comment I read in years. PR rules changed, yes, it does not depend only on links anymore; but traffic for sure is not a factor to increase or decrease it.

 

and opposed example - I have a blog that got pr2 without any backlinks and only one written post