Thats your decision. If you want to follow it. Even if it did have value which it does not, but even if it did it would be foolish to follow as PR in no way makes rankings, money/conversions. And as you said many sites have high PR but get nothing for it and on the other scale are many sites with low PRs who get tons of traffic and make good money. PR is meaningless. But then believe what you will....
PR is not important at all... It's only good to buy or sell links. Google did a big mistake initiating this online business. User: I want PR. Google: Buy links! User: I have PR. And now? Need: Sell it!
In my biggest website, I HAVE 0 GOOGLE PAGERANK!!! This was because I was foolish enough to go in and submit the website before everything was finished, and I had only image links. I still get about 500 uniques & 2500 page views from that website alone. But yes, I really hope it gets accepted soon because from what I hear Google is an amazing source of traffic. For some, the only source of traffic.
I'm sorry, did you date some chick in the past who happened to be named Paige Ranke, and she broke your heart? Cheated on you maybe? Is that why you feel the deep religious need to reply to everyone who says their viewpoints on it with your damn negativity about the subject? Give it a goddam rest already, we get it. We know how you feel. -Michael
mvandemar, visio is a great guy, just let him be himself he gets a lot done that way, as I am sure all of us do. Lets all play nice!
a lot of people say not to take any notice of pagerank but personally i keep a real eye on it and when doing link exchanges, i make my decisions depending on the PR of the website i want to exchange links with.
Good for you! But when you get to this point remember what I told you: http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?p=103198#post103198
Why have you quoted what i have said and said "remember what i told you..." when im not even registered at that forum, nor have ever made a post their?????????
If you read the rest of the post you would have realized I was generalizing. I wasn't talking specifically to you. But you did say you keep track of PR. That kind of track leads to a cliff.
ah right i understand. the way you worded the reply and quoted what i said looked as if you were talking directly to me. sorry, mis-understanding
Well, that may be, but if so then he does go out of his way to hide it. The posts that he has decided to ram down other peoples throats his views about PageRank, usually starting out in a rude manner from the get go: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2424158 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2396751 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2387717 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2387444 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2386990 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2386733 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2385868 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2379861 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2379314 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2379010 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2375408 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2374302 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2374137 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2373571 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2372372 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2371347 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2371327 http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=2371143 That just in the last 7 days. Opinions are fine, he's entitled to them, but he's also spreading quite a bit on misinformation as he does so. The personal attacks on people as he goes just makes it worse. -Michael
PageRank is an indicator of how one site may compare with another, but it's just an indicator based on an algorithm that Google uses. Just like Alexa, the data should be used combined w/ other data that you have available; it shouldn't be your only source. Cory
Maybe if I used you as my role model not only would I provide misinformation, act like a two-year old and post ignorantly on things I have not researched but I would try and trash everybody else who didn't conform to my ideas. Generally if someone says "I have researched this. I have tested it on my site and ......" I will generally take their word for it. You claim none of that. All you do is say little words. That means nothing to me. What means something is your experience with it which seems none-existent. I wasn't rude in those posts. I may have been sarcastic and blunt but not rude. If I was a mod would have let me know.
Thankyou for pointing this out Michael, I must admit, when he left the message on my thread, it did read like he was making a personal attack on me directly, and i didnt like that! that is why i then asked him about it. we are all here to help each other but i think none of us needs personal attacks, fair enough comment on the tread but when abuse gets personal, thats when people attack back!
You're doing exactly that. You get all agressive and I point it out and defend those you are slamming, and you turn that into I "trash everybody else who didn't conform to my ideas"? Ok, fine. You're claiming to have tested this? Show us. Show us where you have proved conclusively that PageRank holds no value and is meaningless. I mean, hell, you made the claim that I should: Which turned out to be in a conversation we never had, a fact you conveniently ignored thereafter. So what you come up with now should be interesting. And by the way, pointing to someone else's opinion does not constitute proof. -Michael
i agree with Michael, if you really think you have definitive proof, please share it with EVERYBODY here, on EVERY forum, on EVERY newsgroup because there are millions of webmasters worldwide who would be 100% interested in seeing this proof. Its funny how we have never seen anybody else on any other forum say they have proof, so its going to be interesting to see what you claim is "proof"
Visio's mother? Now, now. That's not really fair, is it? If you tell Visio he cannot attack people and that he has to stop posting nonsense, that pretty much prohibits him from posting at all, doesn't it?