How important is Google PR

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by PKHWebDesigns, Apr 30, 2012.

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    Time and time again you get people enquiring about Google PR. I personally cannot see why so many people are striving towards a higher PR. A higher PR does not mean that you will feature higher on SERPs for a given search criteria. Google PR only updates about 4 times a year anyway. if you optimise for a specific keyword set you will find much quicker results and if researched properly you will achieve a higher conversion rate.It is not hard to go and buy links and improve your PR, anybody can do that. Does this then mean that you are increasing sales and revenue? Highly doubtful!My advice would be to set about your optimisation / IM strategy with intent to improve SE rankings for specific keyword sets. PR will follow in time! And when it does you are safe in the knowledge that you have accomplished the task using legitimate techniques.Please feel free to educate in this area.
     
    PKHWebDesigns, Apr 30, 2012 IP
  2. ashleyjohn2347

    ashleyjohn2347 Peon

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    Google high page rank will give the best amount of traffic to your website, moreover it provides you with the quality business.
     
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  3. SoftDev

    SoftDev Well-Known Member

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    totally wrong, i saw many sites with pr2/3 and they have bunch of traffic instead of sites that have higher rank 6/7. big example is Digitalpoint and Warriorforum.
    WF has pr5 with 20k+ online users.
    DP has pr6 with under 2k online users.
     
    SoftDev, Apr 30, 2012 IP
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    wordpecker Well-Known Member

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    Completely agree. Just one more thing in addition, PR is best in naked eye but traffic is best from a webmasters eye.

     
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    I've just read about Google's latest "Penguin" update - where another swathe of websites have seen their traffic crash.
    If you are building a business, then it's best to only use SEO and Google traffic as the cherry on top - and not depend on it.
     
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    I agree, focus on having backlinks and quality articles, then PR will follow, efficiency > results.
     
    chillguy, Apr 30, 2012 IP
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    Google page rank is useful to get the good links and good amount of the traffic.
     
    tipsy12, Apr 30, 2012 IP
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    sksinghsanjeet Peon

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    Content, design backlink and visitors
     
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    xtrashots9 Active Member

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    High PR help you in getting

    Guest post to your blog
    More Price if yousell your blog/website
    More price if you sell ad space
     
    xtrashots9, May 2, 2012 IP
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    PageRank (PR) was Google’s original secret weapon, a scale that would rank websites based on incoming links and where those links came from. Although its relevance has arguably faded a bit over the years as Google has added more and more criteria to site rankings, it still goes hand in hand with SEO and every webmaster out there wants to have a high PR.
     
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    bogs Active Member

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    Google PageRank, which is largely based upon the number and quality of backlinks a webpage has, is an important factor in how well a particular webpage ranks within the Google search results.
     
    bogs, May 13, 2012 IP
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    jewelraz Active Member

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    yap, agreed, but PR depends on many things. If you serve a service for a long time then your pr will be automatically high. But traffic is different thing. Rlslog has tons of visitors per day but they are providing warez and they have a good PR.
     
    jewelraz, May 14, 2012 IP
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    kimberlymitchell87 Greenhorn

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    PageRank is important, but it certainly is not worth obsessing over; there are many other factors involved in website ranking that should be given nearly equal consideration.
     
    kimberlymitchell87, May 14, 2012 IP
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    Even if that website has a high PR score, it doesn't mean that you can get good traffic from it. Take note :)
     
    StevenPayales, May 14, 2012 IP
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    yes, pagerank is important for website , and we are promoting PR for our company.
     
    lorraine02, May 14, 2012 IP
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    pr is the important for the seo point of view . if the pagerank is best and greatest then the site is the best.
     
    zengatv, May 14, 2012 IP
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    The google PR is updated every 3 months once.
     
    casand, May 14, 2012 IP