Page 4 - STOP asking about Google PR (READ THIS FIRST).

So I must agree with this post. PR in the end doesn't matter unless other sites won't trade with you because of low page rank.

I have been reading and I see page rank shouldn't matter, but what if it does? I write sponsored posts and when my page rank dropped from 4 to 0 all of the sudden, I lost all my sponsors. They do judge things based on page rank and now I'm losing money. So something has to give. There is no reason I should have a 0 page rank.

You probably guessed from DJstreets reply... the idea isn't to stop people asking questions about PR, it's to stop people asking the same silly questions over and over...
Of course we want valid discussions about PR here, after all - despite our best efforts - we still don't fully understand the relationship between PR and serps. The problem is that - if you look back 6 months-2 years, you'll see that - for every thread prompting a meaningful discussion - we had about 20 threads asking the same silly questions... so the "good threads" were quickly shuffled down into oblivion.
The purpose of this thread (and the reason for the 'sticky' status) is to stop those silly questions and try to fill the forum with worthwhile information instead, (after all - PR is still a mystery and a concern to many seo newbies).


The misunderstanding is that - whilst it doesn't matter too much for serps - it still matters for link exchanges / site valuation etc.It could be an error (Google have made some adjustments to PR/link scores over recent months and it's quite common during these periods for some sites to get messed up) or it could - of course - be a penalty of some sort.

hello everybody thats good post enjoy this.......

this whole PR thing drives me crazy. I have a PR=0, however I rank on the forst page of google for all of my categories and I have over 350 pages indexed....go figure

amazing post!! bravo!

We live in a links world where PR is our goal lol

Hi Googler, when you say "well ranked websites" what exactly do you mean? Are you talking about PR or Alexa ranking or something else? Maybe just the search engine results spot they pop up in?

Thanks

I dont know, why my pagerank drop from 4 to 3
but it's no problem when my keyword still no 1 in google

I generally group Google's visible PageRank in with other misleading "ranks" such as Alexa. Both can be manipulated fairly easily by black-hats yet no actual benefits to search engine organics for sites with a PageRank of 6 or less can be seen.

People can chase their tails wasting time trying to move their PageRank up when they should be focusing their time and efforts into providing genuine content that can increase their natural organic listings.

Do you think a visitor cares if your site has a high or low PageRank? If your site was high in the organics with a snippet that was relevant to what they are seeking, they will click. Then it is up to your content and the ease of use of the site that will dictate your conversion rates.

I am not saying that external links are not important, just that relying on the visual PageRank as a metric for success is just chasing the elusive ghost in the machine.

I completely agree with you djstreet. Asking lots of questions about google pr not only is useless but also fills the space and reduces the chance of valued postings. Thanks for information.

you often see PR bars in Google Webmaster tool in crawl stats column.
What is that?
as it tell us that what PR is being assigned by google is that the true PR?

What is nice??? Please don't add this kind of thing e.g. nice articles, thanks, ok, lab...lab......lab..........
This is discussion forum share you view ask anything related to thread fell free and cool ...........

Good points, but Google does reward high page rank links.. And, on top of that, many of the heavy-hitting, high ranked sites are organisations with which Google has some alternate arrangements, so we can't really look to them as rolemodels for how to rank well...
Out of interest thoug, do you know what the SEOquake toolbar does?

PR is just there for entertainment purposes. A gimmick.

I have sites with PR0 that rank #1 for good keywords.