Hi I need some clarification on page rank. I read on this forum so often that PR is useless, doesn't have any effect on SEO and to essentially ignore it. However, I also read here that link building is one of the most important seo strategys. My understanding was that PR was an indication of inbound link quality. So am i right in thinking that the actual value of PR has no direct impact on SEO, but is a good gauge to judge how effective your link building strategy is performing? Please put me right on anything that i have misunderstood on this matter. Cheers
Yes - PR is a guage of your link strategy in effect. If you have a PR 5 it probably means you have hundreds of backlings, wheras with a PR 1 you may only have 10 backlinks. PR does not directly affect your rankings but generally you will see a correlation between well ranking sites and sites with high PR. But this is due partly due to the links themselves not the actual pagerank measurment.
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Page rank is some what important, as it helps google rank your site in the results pages. But, PR is just one of many factors that determines on "where" your sites shows up at. Dont send a lot of time on what page rank is. Just try to get links from large sites that have content that is related to your sites content.
You can tell by PageRank if a site have a lot of outbound links. But this will not affect your ranking. A site with 100 unrelevant links will probably have higher PageRank but not rank better than a site with 10 really relevant links and lower PageRank. Another thing you can ask your self is why isn't always a PR10 or PR9 site at the first position? ...the answer is relevance, not PageRank.
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It's not "totally" worthless... It's just that 99% of the time when people are talking about 'PR' they are talking about the Toolbar PR which is pretty much worthless. It's always out of date since it's only updated once every 3-4 months typically and is already weeks out of date on the day the update is published. Your 'REAL' PR (which you never know) does have an effect on your rankings... but it is very minor. It's one of over 200 ranking factors Google is looking at. Do the math. It probably has about as much effect as having a keyword in your URL. LOL I wouldn't totally ignore it. It a way to check in every 3-4 months and get a feel for where you stand with your backlink profile compared to 3-4 months prior. But watching your rankings for your important keywords and watching your search traffic volume are MUCH, MUCH, MUCH better measures of how you are doing. If you get a bunch of inbound links from PR8 sites but all of them use "Click Here" as the link text, but you want to rank for "Las Vegas Vacations", those links aren't going to do anything to improve your ranking for "Las Vegas Vacations". It's going to help you rank for "Click Here". That is why I always say PR is overrated... Take it with a grain of salt. Don't focus on PR. Focus on rankings for your main targeted keywords and your traffic volumes as your measure of success/failure with SEO. For the same reasons previously mentioned, I don't even like it as a gauge for your link building. The same URL will rank better for "Las Vegas Vacations" with 1000 inbound links from PR0 vacation related sites with link text like "Las Vegas Vacations", "Vegas Vacations", "Vegas Holidays", "Vegas Trips", etc. than it will with 1000 inbound links from PR5 sites that are not related to vacations and that use "Click Here", "Get started, "Try it now", etc. as the link text. It's not about the PR of the page linking to you (at least not at Google). It's about the page being relevant AND the link text containing your targeted keyword phrases (or slight variations). The 1000 PR5 links will yield a MUCH higher PR for your URL than the 1000 PR0 links... But having the 1000 PR0 links will get me a buttload more traffic and make me LOTS more money by allowing me to sell a LOT more of my Vegas vacations. I well sell more because a) people will follow the links from those other vacation related sites to my site and b) people search for Vegas vacations can find me in the organic SERPs. It's very targeted traffic... people looking for vacations. On the otherhand, I will get very little traffic from the PR5 sites if they are not vacation related and will get ZERO traffic from the search engine if all I rank for is "Click Here" or "Get started". So no... PR is not even a "mediocre" measure of your link building strategy from an SEO perspective. Scrait yet?
Thankyou for all your input. This really helps. I feel i am now starting to get to grips with all this link building stuff...the theory anyway! now all i have to do is implement it...
Yes, Your assumption is absolutely correct. PR is a good gauge to judge how effective your link building strategy. Everybody focusing around the PR only but it won't help us to gain the traffic or increase the SERP or increase our sales so we should concentrate on drive more traffic and earn more money.
Thats a very interesting link as they suggest that the value and importance of the link is already taken into account in the PR. Still, i guess the main thing to remember is to keep building relevant links specifically targetted to the keyword in question.
Page Rank is the algorithm used by the Google search engine, originally formulated by Sergey Brin and Larry Page in their paper The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hyper textual Web Search Engine. It is based on the premise, prevalent in the world of academia, that the importance of a research paper can be judged by the number of citations the paper has from other research papers. Brin and Page have simply transferred this premise to its web equivalent: the importance of a web page can be judged by the number of hyperlinks pointing to it from other web pages PageRank is only one of numerous methods Google uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. Whatever the significance of PageRank as a component of the overall algorithm, the fact that it at least attempts to reflect site authority and quality can only be a good thing and is reason enough to give it due respect. When a user enters a query into the Google search engine, Google searches the index for matching pages and returns the considered the most relevant to the user. Relevance is determined by over 200 factors, one of which is the Page Rank for a given page. As Google compiles its index, it calculates a number it calls PageRank for each page it finds. This was the key invention of Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that tallies how many times other sites link to a given page and assigns a numerical weighting to each element of those links with the purpose of 'measuring' its relative importance. I hope It will help for you,you may also see the page rank algorithm.