presumably you built and optimised all of these yourselves, so comparable levels of optimisation for all sites?
yes....its completely true pr doesnt count much ...i hav few blogs with pr and some with no pr...but the ones with google pr get much less traffic than some with no pr....
Yeah they may have place in google algorithms but I don't think they are much useful to website owner .
Google say that, 200 factors are considered in ranking a website, one of these factors is the PR of a site. I personally think that the PR have little bit affect on the ranking but this affect is one of the 200 total things that affect ranking.
my blog was ranked as 4 by Google, that was when I received so many advertising requests, but when Google update it's page rank list for the last 3 month, my blog went down to 3 this is why I didn't receive any request since that time!
Very interesting results! For a long time now I've seen some of my new sites with very low PR getting huge amount of traffic from Google. Which brought me to the same conclusions. Just the fact the Google Chrome doesnt even show PR of the websites you surf goes to show Google is moving away from the PageRank (at least what is visual to us)....
In my opinion,page rank is very important. Just that if you know how to utilize on site seo together to make your serp jump to the top.
Its obvious, isn't it? PR is only 1 of the 200+ factors the Google algorithm uses for ranking web pages. So if you work only on PR and ignore the other factors, you are not going to rank well. That said, we all know that PR and Keywords in page title are the two most important factors in terms of weightage in Google's algo
That is certainly interesting. Were all of the domains roughly the same age? How competitive was each set of main keywords? I feel this is not a complete study.
Who needs high PR if you have high traffic to your sites through your posts. That's what's hard with making money online, quality and quantity of your posts matter a lot. Proper SEO utilization is really important too.
Depends on your site and your niche and the competition. Page rank is just a measure. It may help to rank in cases of equal standings with the competitor, but in general, it is not what makes the hits.
Yes, that's what Google says (PR being one of about 200 ranking factors). What they do not say is how little or how much "weight" they give PR in that list of ranking factors. It would be a big mistake, I believe, to conclude that PR contributes only 1/2 of one percent (that is, 1/200) to the ranking. If I were a betting man, I would lay some good money down betting that PR is one of the top factors in ranking among those 200.