The more I look at Google's PR meter and rank, the more I see a snare. What on Earth could be the purpose? It's got to be more than anything, to keep website owners using Google's own page and resources to form a habit. If the meter and rank were stripped from sight, what would change? The display results would still be the same for everybody searching !! So that introduces the question of what is the real reason for the meter and the rank. It's not by accident. It leaves people continually running to Google to see where they sit. The number one purpose of the PR system is to entrap and initiate habits. It's a behavior control.
Exactly right. Same with most things in life. Such as money for example. We are a dot in the middle of an ordinary solar system in an ordinary galaxy surrounded by billions of ordinary galaxies. Yet the majority of sheeple can't even contemplate this level of thinking because their stuck wasting their time on meaningless nothings.
Seems that a decent goal for this year, would be to ignore the Pagerank meter and numbers for an entire year, and focus only on where my pages end up in the results. The results would be the best ranking system, and each person could make their own rating system. If only page one counts, then they could use a 1 to 10 on that. If anywhere in the top 50 is good enough, then they can rank up to fifty, or use a one to ten system where every 5th spot is worth a one.
Well it is something that google develop so that they can get a grip and dominate the search engine market. It's probably what makes google get to the top in the first place. They why Microsoft now also looks into their own ranking system.
Page Rank is just a system to tell how popular a site is. The more backlinks a site have, the more its PR will be.
I don't if this was why it was implemented or not but I do agree with your plan of ignoring PD and focusing on SERPS. The next time of course is not to worry about SERPs but what you are getting from those SERPs
I think the PR appraoch is better than Yahoo or MSN, who always seem to return too many results. I prefer the way google do it, it's fustrating and annoying at times, but it works
The only thing worse it seems, might be "Ask" with reams of sponsored results listed first. I used to like it somewhat at one point in time.
Maybe yes. But if it was that simple, why are some sites number one today, and drop off the face of the planet two months later? With the same amount of backlinks too. Hard to imagine that they just became unpopular all of a sudden. I'd imagine that backlinks might account for 40%. Now that I think about it, popularity can't be the ticket. In my own professiion, one of the highest PR sites had the fewest backlinks. Just a handful like 6 links. And nothing to write home about. Links for site with PR 1 to 3, with a couple of 4s. But the one thing that stood out about it compared to other sites of the same professional niche, was that it was the oldest website.