Alexa ranking is more important, but PR is not completely worthless, you would have to be dumb to think that .
i would say alexa is better and is more representative of traffic and popularity for your site. i have a PR0 site with alexa 234,000 that gets about 1000 hits per day. and it gets 3x the traffic of my PR4 site with alexa rank 471. i also got PR4 after 3 weeks and 4 days of hard work in link building.
Hello... Both are very different in aspects... Alexa measures the amount of webmaster/surfer traffic from those whom have the alexa bar installed and is an incomplete measurement as it doesnt measure ALL traffic coming to any given site. PR was a good idea at first but soon became misused and abused and is really a worthless metric unless you are selling it to others in the form of links to exploit and gain higher page rank. Where at one time it ment how much trust is placed on any given site or page its really flawed now and the only ones that chase it are webmasters. If i had to choose which id want more id say traffic as that leads to sales thx malcolm
Nothing dumb about it. PR is outdated. The only useful thing about it now is to over inflate the value of your website and try to sell it HERE (or sell links on it).
How can you say it is outdated and uselsss, when you just said yourself it "over inflates the value of a site." Isn't that a good thing for the seller, it is another selling point for their website, which in my opinion is good for webmasters...
It would be better to focus on Page Rank and the task of link building. Alexa is not considered by the SEs as a major SEO element.
While PR dwells on the number of backlinks, alexa relies on its tool bar users. I like nothing but enough targeted traffic to my site...
In the two, I think Google PR is much better. But as many others said, the real thing that matters is the SERPs, PR or alexa rank cannot bring traffic.
Alexa rank is no indication of traffic of a site. Google PR is the indication of a good site, and is one of the important criteria of google traffic. So, in fact if you get a high PR link, it is good. Low alexa rank link doesn't mean anything. Alexa is not at all an indication of anything.
I don't give much focus on my alexa rank. It will be better to have a higher PR than a higher alexa. Why would I chose Alexa anyway? Do I get any help with my rankings if my Alexa is extremely high? I believe it won't help at all. And some of us here know that Alexa isn't really accurate. As for the PR, one good thing about it is your site's popularity. Also, you won't be having a very hard time exchanging links with related sites.
dont mix both things bcoz both are diffeerent alexa is for traffic rank and google page rank show how much link associated.