Check if pr is important - type "website design" in google and tell us what position your PR5 site is
I agree, PR is googles stamp of quality and realivents but not a guaranteed traffic generator. A PR3 site specializing in a Particular niche can generate more traffic than a PR5 site especially if there are less sites promoting the same niche.
i think PR is gud measurement to know how much traffic go to the website.But, its not indicator to know that we have traffic that all targeted. May be its more refering on ROI. for my own case study, i built my blog for several month with doing some monetizing and seo method, then my site indicate PR1.5 and almost 2. But after I recheck with the traffic, it's not the targeted traffic as i wish. Most of the link like 'spamming' my blog. That's my own opinion actually.
If you produce and share a free wordpress or joomla template you'll have tons of backlink...especially if the template is adsense ready
I've also heard that Google is de-emphasizing these internal links. I just hope they penalize a site or sandbox it for that practice.
I've seen a lot of posts on the Google webmaster help forums from those who create html templates, css templates, wordpress templates etc who have put their link on the template. Those templates were then used by either porn sites or other bad neighbourhoods, and bye-bye to the pagerank, and thus, goodbye traffic. PageRank does matter. Our site went from PR1 to PR3 and sales went up by 200%. Seems to prove my point, anyway.
In case you didnt get the ideea .. he was trying to say that your website got PR5 for nothing ... and you will get better rank in google search engine..and many facilities .. when others try for months..maybe years to get a lousy PR ... Not saying you have a fault..just demonstrating by yourself PR is not realy so important !
Thats exactly the point I was trying to make with the original post. My design site got PR5 for nothing. For making a single CMS site. If I linked it with not such a competitive keyword it would probably be way up there in the rankings as well. But also have to be consideriate about the customer.