PR and it's uses.

So, what do people think of PR.
Has anyone come across a use for the PR of their site.

The only things I can think of are:
1) As a guideline that whatever you are doing is working
2) To increase COOP/LV weight.
3) Selling links based on PR.

 

It can be used to determine how long a site has been established for. Those sites with no PR are usually only a couple of months old whereas sites with greater PR have usually been around for longer.

Make sense?

 

Makes sense but with a bit of work you could check that anyway, though I suppose it is a good visual indicator if a site is very new. I think jlawrence hit it on the head with his 3.

 

I do too, but I would really just go with my point if I was buying something from someones site. I dont really like putting my credit card details on a really new site.

 

For me co-op weight is by far the most important factor from the three jlawrence mentioned.

 

The ladies like it.

 

My lady hates it - the little green bar that is

 

As an indicator of how often the site is spidered

 

PR does have one very important use. in the Google directory, sites are ordered by PR, as opposed to the more common alphabetical order.

and this is compounded by the fact that in the ODP, they have a little green ball which takes you to the equivalent cat in the Google directory.

in that sense, it does make a difference. i can't think of any other way bona fide traffic is impacted, however.

 

If it wasn't for PR this forum would only have about 1/2 the posts it has. Give it about a week and the new posts "When will the next PR update be?" will start. In about 3 months we'll start seeing the false "PR update" posts and eventually we'll come full circle to the mass postings when the next PR happens.

 

the prbar is also usefull for telling you whether or not the site is banned or not, if has pr of some sort its a safe-site if it has a grey-out bar do some searching on google for backlinks and indexed pages.

 

yeah but reading the long PR thread this morning, there are people saying they built a site in the past month and already at PR4 or even 5

The only reason I like an increase is for better quality backlinks. I'd be disappointed in my PR change (or rather lack of it) but I'm still too p'd off about the SERP dump

 

4) Makes it easier to exchange links with people who believe in PR

 

Good addition dct. Trying to exchange links when all you've got is a PR0 is a right royal pita.

 

that where directories help

 

you should get a doctor to check that out man.

 

But there are only so many directories. I like to point way more links than that into a site in the early days.