Pagerank IS imporatant

Whenever i see a thread on Pagerank (PR) most of the experienced members always comment that PR is not that important, care for other things, build back links, get traffic, blah blah and more blah.

If PR wasn't that important then why have Google made it public ?
Why have they given an option to check PR, why they made PR fitted toolbar ?

Google says there are more then 200 factors on which search engine rankings are evaluated. I say PR is one of the most important factors, if not then PR hoopla would have never been created.

PR is the only assessment with which we can judge our website in terms of SEO.

Keep the PR update threads going guys !!!

 

You've lost all credibility right there.


.... NEXT!

 

PR it is important,that is true,but surely not the most important.just one of the factors .i saw PR0 websites that rank high in competitive search queries

 

Good sites have good PR

 

I understand your question of "why did google create pagreank" if it didn't mean something. The answer to that question is that google DID plan on using that as a SEO tool (This is my view), BUT it quickly became clear that it was too easy to manipulate the SERP's with spam. This was a tool that any webmaster or SPAMMER could use with very powerful affects, and it quickly became obsolete.

I have PR2 sites competing on the first page of some difficult search terms with PR4 and PR5 sites. PR doesn't mean much anymore.

 

Yet whats more important is your linking strategie and content systems

 

Sure it dose PR is mostly about Backlinks and BL's => High SERP's

 

Pagerank(PR) isn't the most important in terms of SEO but I believe PR shows authority and stability. I know that's one of the first things I judge a sites importance, PR and Alexa rank.

PR is more of a result from your Good SEO practices.

Also, many advertisers and anyone else who looks at your site for whatever reasons, they are going to judge your sites PR as well. You think they waste their time on a site that is 3 years old and has a PR 0, I don't think so. It usually would mean they are "doing something shady" or something is wrong with their site.

Higher PR also means more Moola you can charge for lets say, advertising other sites. (textlinkadds)

You can also get outranked in the serps if you are competing against a similar blog with higher PR than you. I'm talking about when both posts are brand new, aren't indexed yet and you have similar keywords and titles.

The Higher PR site will be ahead of yours. Now once you add backlinks to it that's a different story. Trust me, I've seen it firsthand a 1000 times on one of my blogs specifically about current events.

Other than that, no, PR doesn't really matter.

IMO

cheers!

 

PR does not necessarily mean earning income.

 

Pr is important some people get a little addicted to it though. I have seen a few sites or pages rank fairly decent but with not much traffic. It don't do you a lot of good if you don't get traffic too. I like a combination of rank and traffic. I think for a small site or hobby site a pr1-pr3 is a decent accomplishment. A pr4 or above is excellent.

 

To who? Visitors don't even know what it means, and if all your site can draw is ad revenue for a living, then the whole thing may as well be an Adsense trap.

Advertisers don't care about it that much either as long as you are using Adsense or some other fly-by-wire mode of advertising. Visitors certainly do not know what an Alexa score or PR means, that much is a fact. The only people who care are your "competitors" if that's what they really are. I think most of them are wanna-be webmasters with a lot of time on their hands.

 

Never seen a popular site with a bad PR.
Except mine.

So yes, PR IS important. Commonsense tells me so.

 

I think PR is like something a webmaster can show other webmasters he is doing something right on the web. It is like a diploma or something, it not going to give revenue or traffic but definitely is something to be proud of.

 

What this genius said

 

This sounds like a contradiction all the way. You have a "popular" site with bad PR, so you "believe" PR is important? I don't know, I don't get it. Must be a language barrier issue. I just don't understand doublespeak.

 

Pagerank was important long time ago for buying/selling links but nowadays the traffic is the most important for a successful business.

 

If we have new site produced, just make a backlink to high PR website..

just leave it a comment on that site..

 

The only people who know the actual importance (or lack of importance) of PR are the inner circle of Google employees who work with the ranking algorithm(s). The rest of us are merely offering, at best, educated guesses.

I've learned in life that it is usually wise to "follow the money trail". It is clear that Google is still investing significant amounts of money to maintain their patented PageRank. That suggests to me rather strongly that Google still considers PR to be important, at least to them, regardless of the widely varying opinions of webmasters.

How important? Only Google knows. The rest of us are only offering opinions.

 

It is important to get a good sERP on Google but you are not going to need it on the rest of the search engines.

Let's be reminded that there a lot of search engines that can give some valuable traffic to our site. It would be better if we could get a little piece of ever search engine than just fight over Google traffic.

 

Of course,it's important,but don't take it too seriously.Pay more attention to the quality of the site.