I work for a company with a blog that gets the crap comments. They automatically get the spam hammer. People should really value true comment posting services over bot comment posting (ultimate fail and so obvious) or just not spam blogs? I highly doubt that will happen.
No no and no. Everyone gets high PR lately and they seem to make a big fuzz about it. It gives you nothing, really. It's the traffic that bring you money.
And high pr brings you traffic... Google's main ranking factor is the number of quality incomming links from sites that are relevant to your site. This is measured in PR. The reason some lower PR sites rank higher than higher PR sites are only because of relevance to the search.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you tercede. Some "SEO Experts" will always spam on the blogs even though they know that it's obvious spam. The good thing is that google are finally devaluing such comments.
O to 4 is very good. It's impossible to predict your next movement. What does work is likely from high PR sites in the same niche as your own.
Okay okay--- well curious for this. If it is NOT PR that yields where you rank in your SERP vs. a very similar page, what exactly do you think it is? I disagree with most of you until viable proof is brought out.... and go. Sam
dont rush for PR......its just like a status symbol.. But it gets updates only in 3months...SO just concentrate on main work..link building...and keep on pouring good content and service..!
No better source for answer than Google's poster boy Matt Cutts, and he said on one of his videos that PR did play a significant role in SERP. Unless you got some conspiracy theory about G misleading people on purpose, I say PR still matters a lot.
It's good to have a high PR but it matters more to rank in the top 10. I've seen PR2 sites beat out PR5.