This might have been discussed here before, but I'm going to ask the question... Why am I seeing many people placing such an emphasis on PR? Really, what does it do for a site? I can see how people are making money off selling ad space on their site by the esteem of their PR, but what else does it do? I know of sites out there that have 0 PR, but list #1 in SERP for keywords that are not in their url. I'm wondering if there is a misconception that higher PR=high traffic, or higher SERP. Or am I under the misconception?
Search engines are key, and Page Rank is a good way to show how good a site is in search engines.. Although I don't see the big deal, I do mostly buy links on sites only if they have a high PR.
Good question , In my knowledge , Page Rank helps us to show what particular traffic is being done on the site how well done SEO with backlinks is provided to the site results = Traffic , which brings us to the begining to page rank. It also let us understand easier that the page rank high ranked sites are more visited with people , traffic could be bought with adding links on page rank high sites.. (Ofcourse these are my ideas) , cant say its 100% true im i wrong at that point ?
Actually many people care about PR and for many different reasons. PR actually = $$$$ for a lot of people.
Ohene , your correct at one point it means nothing for some people it means something to other people its their decission it doesnt mean that they are newbies
There is no relation beetween PR and traffic. The PageRank patent page got PR7, I don't think there is thousand of visitors/day. But the page got very good backlinks.
There is no relation yeah i ment something else page rank is based on the points of you backlinks and the index on search engines actually , i ment something else above their.. Sorry for me to let you misunderstand me..
Pages with higher Pr tend to rank higher. They are also visited by google more frequently as well as spidered deeper.
If you have a unique digitalpoint username that you use on lots of of other sites, try searching for it. You'll probably find the digitalpoint result at 1 or 2, even if you just registered on digitalpoint. I'm guessing this is a good example of a one week PR7 trumping 5 year old PR3. Seems to me that PR is useful if you want to fight for the top results. If your keywords are niche enough and there is nobody to battle for top results, it probably does not matter.
I don't know just what PR means but I can tell you this. I run a domain that gets around 400 visitors a day. Yes, I know this isn't much. What bugs me about pagerank is that i offered my friend a subdomain and, after the first update after he moved there, he had a pagerank of 4 on his homepage whereas I had a 3. He gets about 5% of the traffic I do. He also has maybe 5 backlinks whereas I have 50+. Some might say this is due to site size but his site is about 30% smaller than mine. There's little explanation for this ranking. I know that I, personally, won't be paying for any links from sites just because of their PR. I'd rather look at their traffic stats and see if it's worth paying.
There is no direct realation between PR and ranking or PR and traffic. A site can get to be a PR10 with one link, but it isn't going to rank for anything. Backlinks with good anchor text are what matter, and it is these backlinks are what gives you PR. Pagerank Article Personally I love webmasters being tied up in PR, I ovver them a link from a site of mine from an unrelated page with good PR page and they're happy to give my clients an excellent on-topic one way link. The funny thing is they think they're getting a better deal
So you're jealous by your friend's sites? Dont look on that perspective. Maybe he has done some good SEO than you. PR is determine sites linking to your site. So if there is PR6 linking to you, you might get PR6,5 or 4. This is how PR is computed. Mattuk is right never ever relate PR, traffic and SERP. They are not directly related.
PR is a factor Google takes into account when ranking pages. In my experience, I believe anchor text, authority and relevance are bigger factors. 100 PR5 links from one domain and 100 links from different domain pass the same PR but the 100 links from is likely to rank much higher.