I heard that after next pr update, google won't give much weight on pagerank... Is this true?? If so, On which do I have to focus to get better SERP?? Thanks...
No. Google doesn't care too much about PR since a few months. Or more. Get more backlinks. And read forum's archives. Szy.
Thanks for your advice.... I have one more question.... What is anchor text??? Is it like something you guys have on your signature???
You can modify your tag to use the title attribute as in <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com" title="description here">Anchor Text</a> Code (markup): It's valid HTML, I know it acts as a "tool tip" in FireFox being good for accessibility... but as for its SEO qualities... I don't know
What do you base that conclusion on? Google doesn't update the public reports/displays of PR at all frequently any more but that doesn't mean PR has been devalued in the ranking algorithm. If PR doesn't matter, how would doing this help SE rankings?
If Pr has lost importance and only the number of links is important in G than that should be easy to test. If some one had only a few high pr links they should have plumeted and someone with a high number of low pr links should have headed for the top.
I think the question has been answered well in previous posts but I will reiterate that it isn't like PR is some tangible one factor thing that can be purchased and traded etc. It is made up of a variety of things and the end result of the little bar or number is merely an indicator. Google uses "PR" still because Google still uses the elements that make up PR. You can certainly argue the uselessness of the PR indicator but the basis is still there. Links still help and links from more "important" sites help even more. Yes, the specifics change from time to time but the general idea still holds true. Until natural language is used, PR will still be "used" by Google. A newbie mistake however is to worship the bar rather than getting dug in and hitting the basics that still get a site ranked.
Page Rank is alive and well bro. I wonder how many highly competitive top 5 rankings people have who dimish the effect of page rank. I betcha that if you are trying to crack the top 10 for "las vegas hotels" you can have all the links you want from PR3 and less sites, and you will never get to the top 10. Having said that, I believe that the page rank effect is easier to see in the SERPS when analyzing backlinks that are relevant or "topic sensitive".
Well, Google still seems to think that PR has some validity. Here's a snippet of an email that I received from G when I questioned some of their SERP's: "As you may know, our automated PageRank algorithm lies at the heart of our technology. PageRank takes into account not only the content on the page in question, but also the quality and anchor text of the links that point to that page." Sounds like PR is here to stay in one form or another.
You don't create a patent that powers a billion dollar company and then treat it like a fad. No one can duplicate the page rank algo and until something WAY better comes along that makes people really switch (as opposed to the flavor of the month hype that MSN and Yahoo are putting out), page rank isn't going anywhere. Although, I would say that there have definately been modifications to the original patent (see Hilltop, TSPR, etc).