OK so I just recently started paying attention to page rank after seeing "PRx" all over this forum and SitePoints forum. So I was just wondering what is actually considered a GOOD page rank? One of my calling card sites is a PR5, one of my blogs is a PR5 and my text messaging site is a PR3. Is 5 good? If I got my PR5 site up to a PR6 would that be considered a lot better? Does 3 mean it sucks? Oh, and I'm guessing all sites start at 1, correct? Thanks!
No, all sites start from 0. You can go all the way up to 10. I would say (IMO) the pageranks go like this: 0 - it doesn't matter if your site exists 1-3 - your site has some minor importance 4-6 - your site has some decent importance amongst other sites. 7-9 - your site is really important in the www world. 10 - there's no way a user hasn't seen your site, it's that important
I would say that considering it goes from PR0 to PR10, that PR5 would either mean it's half good or half bad. Actually, I don't pay much attention to PR anymore, but I will say this. One of my blogs had a PR6 after being online for less than a month and I only had a few inbound links. I had good quality content (in my opinion anyway), but not much of it. Another site that I've been working on for more than year has fluctuating PR even though I'm consistenly adding more quality content and links...eventually I stopped being obsessed with it and just focused on creating better sites.
That is what makes DP such a great forum to be a member of, with folks like Wekky around who has just joined in September, well done, pretty accurate simple comments, easy to read & understand, Thanks
lol. For me personally, even PR 1 is a dream come true. I worked my bum on my site and nothing. lol. Then I eventually gave up.
It all depends on your idea of 'Good' For me.. PR5 is OKAY. PR6 is Good and PR7 will make me Anything above that will be a dream come true. Also, you should be focusing on how much traffic you're getting with PR 5 site. Are you coming in rankings for your decided Keywords? How is your competition doing. Do you think you need to improve? All of these factors decide your 'level' of a good or bad PR.
After mont and half is my site on PR0. It has a lot of back links, I am improving content. I hope, it will be better in a future, but I am not sad from that. I must continue with my effort.
I have one related question. Maybe experienced people can answer.. My site is currently PR5. Since i was not much experienced, i did not look at the evoluton of my site in detail. Almost %90-95 of my traffic is coming from Google. If i am not wrong, i remember that when the PR increased this effects the traffic considerably. I mean the traffic measurments jumps when PR changes.. My question is that if i start a link building campaign for tha tsite and make it a PR6 site then what type of jump do you expect from my site... For example currently there are ~5000 unique visitors daily. What can it be when my site becomes PR6.. I know this all depends lots of other factors but i think i can get some informed guesses.. Maybe someone can also give some numbers in a larger scale like estimating the traffic changes in other PR changes (PR6->PR7..).. I tink even getting some numbers for your site may help... Thanks.
Okay...it's not like everyone in the world has seen adobe.com, apple.com, google.com and so on websites. Atleast my mom didn't yet. lol.
just wondering if any of you have such experience... say i have a site with only 3-4 pages of content. how much money do i have to spend purely on buying links for 3 months to get pr up to pr5?
I was reading very recently that the pr that we see is not the "true" pr of our sites, were unlikely to ever know the true pr of our sites, there is a lot more in between it was suggesting and it was mentioned for example going from a 4 to a 5 or 6 could have a much wider gap than many are realising, i know it sounds odd but basically pr is not quite how many people think of it. In a nutshell it can be a bit of a mystery, like many things related to search engines.
No, PR isn't related to traffic at all. Theoretically it would be possible to have a PR8/9 site with no traffic at all. PR is a measure of the PR of the links coming into a site, not of the traffic they send, the quantity of links or any SEO factors.
Now that you know the PR of your sites, forget about it. Seriously, the toolbar PR is usually behind (by months?) of what the actual PR of the page is. PR is just one of many things (imho) that give you an idea of a 'value' of a site. One of many things...