I've seen an awful lot of threads offering up links on sites with page ranks as low as 3 or 4, so I was wondering what people consider to be a "good" page rank for a site? Obviously the higher the better, and presumably a page rank of 7+ is good news, but given that even my humble weblog which isn't linked to from many places other than forums (where it's my web site link) and a couple of sites that I've commented in, plus the blogs of my friends (none of which are highly ranked), still manages to get a rank of 4, I don't know why people are paying for links on sites with a lower rank that this. Anyway, I was just wondering what other people's thoughts are on what constitutes a page rank worth paying to attain (obviously it depends on what you're getting back from the site, but I was thinking in more general terms).
I wouldn't pay for PR myself, but I've noticed an awful lot of threads asking for money in exchange for links and getting it.
That has nothing to do with PR. I advertise on many sites and couldn't care less about their PR as long as they send a good amount of visitors to my site
None of which answers the question. I don't know. I find PR 4 fairly easy to achieve - takes time for it to get there but it's not too hard. PR5 is harder and PR6 again considerably harder.
If you try to think a bit you will see that the question is answered. Question: what constitutes a page rank worth paying to attain Answer: If you pay for PR you are living in the past. Let me put it in terms you might understand... Question: what constitutes a page rank worth paying to attain Answer: Use your money to improve your site and not to gain more PR There you go...
I think that the value of page rank depends on the type of web site you have and how much competition there is. For instance in the gift basket page rank world you hardly ever see a site with over 5 page rank ever since some changes at Google a while back. Carol
PR may not matter much in terms of SERPs. But, PR does matter if you use the site for coop or Link-vault. I strongly believe that in terms of SERPs it's the number of IBL's that matter more than the PR of said IBL's and you can generate large numbers of IBL's using the coop or LV. So to say that chasing PR is living in the past isn't, imho, entirely true. PR also often matters to clients. SEO's may believe that PR's meaningless, but try explaining that to all your clients. Many many clients do demand increased PR as part of a SEM campaign.
I don't really keep track of linking (aka im not trying) and ive still managed to keep a PR5 or higher on sites of mine.
A PR 5 can be considered good because upto 4 its like very easy to get .... The hard work starts after 4....
I don't really care about the PR either, it's just a bonus the way I see it. I have purchased links and will do again (if the right site comes along). Doing so gets me on Authority sites that get tons of traffic both from web site visitors and the bots. I now get between 450-600 visitors a day, most of which come from text links and sponsorships, not from SERPs. My PR goal is 7 (currently a 5). Most of the sites that dominate the industry I am in are PR6-7 range. A few 8's, but not many.
Good PR = whatever it takes to beat the competition in your niche. But at the end of the day, great content, innovative marketing and smart joit ventures always win.