Personally I wouldnt worry about ur pr, just concentrate on getting relevant backlinks to your site, and keep working hard at it, as your site wont get to the top of google overnight ! Woc
Actually, it makes perfect sense, you obviously just don't know enough to understand it. Toolbar PR is a useless metric that Google shows us. It's updated inconsistently, and the 'real' PR of a site is what matters (to an extent). Having said that, it's 1 of over 200 factors that go into determining your SERPs position, and a very minor one at that. Again, there are two types of people who want to attain high PR: - Those that think it will bring them traffic. (Although there may some correlation, it is not directly proportional) - Those that want to sell useless links, or flip their site at a higher price to the former. You can think it "doesn't make sense" all you want; that doesn't really concern me. In 6 months time when you work it out yourself, I won't say I told you so.
1. It is not true and their thinking is wrong. People usually want high PR to sell links, sell a website or flip websites. People who think PR brings them traffic are missing the whole point of SEO. PR is a status symbol, it is just there to show-off. Normal people don't care unless they want to buy a link or to buy the website. 2. People would do it for a high-quality backlink. Why do you comment on articles that are useless, but have a high PR? For the backlink. 3. Once again, it is just a status symbol from Google. It gives us the right to say "My site is a PR6, it's better than your PR2 site". It's useless unless you want to sell links or the website. That is the only useful thing about PR. People often forget that SEO is for traffic, not PR. People who think PR is so important are doing it wrong.
PR doesn't guarantee traffic. Quality Links on relevant directories and forums for Tibia etc will drive traffic. From an SEO perpsect and to improve - have a look at your content including title tags and <h1> tags etc and drive focus on keywords for your sites key topic(s)
I hope you understand. Everybody forgets it's about traffic, not PR. Would you rather look like a site that gets traffic or one that actually gets traffic.
No; PR is not directly proportional to SERPs. Read my post above. There are over 200 factors that go into determining your rank, and PR is a very minor one.
PR really is more about your popularity / authority on the subject at hand. The more people that link to you, the more people think you have good information to share, therefore you're seen as more of an authority. Hence higher page rank. This doesn't necessarily mean that you have a website that's worth placing at the top of the search engines.