If a product or commodity or similar does not maintain a high standard or quality , level of performance or similar it becomes less attractive or viable in the market place G has not been able to maintain a consistent level of accuracy so therefore the performance and credibility of the PR is now in question If you buy a can of tomatoes at the hyperstore and the taste is not up to the taste and quality that you are used to expecting The next time you visit the hyperstore the can of tomatoes stays on the 'for sale rack' or is in the bargain buy for 'past its sell by date' It takes a lot to build back credibility when you cannot synchronize a few hundred data centers
When I buy/sell links. The PR mark becomes 10/10. When I sell links from a site that is low PR, the mark becomes 0/10 automatically.
I give it a 5 ... Trust is an important factor to must technical users. But most n00bs have no clue about PR. So it depends on what the importance factor is that you're referring to?
Nice said. Slowly slowly G is loosing it PR game card. But this the fact.... If I see PR8 or PR9 my eye pupil goes wide. I think this happen to most of us.
Page Rank = PR Does not matter! Page rank is simply like a voting system, thats as far as it goes. If you optimize your site correctly, the pr will take care of itself. Sure you could fake the pr but it wouldn't make sense and you will get burned for it.
Talking off the topic. This whole board revolve around optimization, search and read as much as you can. Good Luck.
I am giving 3 Marks as well. I have seen sites come up on even the most competitive phrases with 0 page rank. And the fact that your page rank can differ form data center to data center just shows they aren't really enforcing it. I think the real deal is TrustRank as Aaron Wall seems to think so over at SEO Book. Check it out: [http://www.seobook.com/archives/000661.shtml]
It helps increase link value but then again so does traffic and sometimes you have sites with only 1 or the other
I stress for a high PR by gaining backlinks, etc. so that when I sell advertising on my webpage I will be able to make some $$
I would like to give 5 points out of 10 to PR. B'coz I think alongwith PR, other things, like Keywords, contents, url links, etc. are also matters, while it comes to find out the main important factor in popularity of web sites. We may conclude that half of the work in popularity is done by the only PR.
PR is important and PR is not important. Its important for link building but for keyword's good rank, don't need.