Feb
Google PageRank – What Do You Think?
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There is always a lot of Hoopla and Hype about Google Pagerank (PR). Is Google PageRank worth all the web chatter? I see everyone talking about how important PageRank is, even I am caught up in the PageRank addiction.
I read a comment the other day on a forum and someone posted this comment about PageRank:
“The PageRank you see in the toolbar is a sketchy and stale metric of what a pages PageRank used to be. A simple analogy is getting into your car to go for a drive, knowing that the fuel gauge only shows the amount of fuel that was in your tank 3 months ago. But would you really trust that there is gas in it today?”
In my opinion the green PageRank bar is like your website’s report card. It won’t help much on its own, but it represents other things about your site. If a site has a PR7 and is ranking well, it’s not ranking there because of the PageRank itself, but because of what that PageRank represents – Dedicated SEO Work, lots of inbound links, several coming from other quality sites.
So it is not the PageRank that is important, it is what you did to get the PageRank that hold the true value.
I’ll certainly admit that PageRank isn’t as valuable as it once was. However, it is still reputed to be a small portion of the Google algorithm (along with 100+ other factors), making it not entirely insignificant. It might not help much, but if it helps at all then it can’t be considered “insignificant”.
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I basically agree with what you said here – pagerank alone is not going to determine exactly where you rank, but knowing what it is and where you’re ranking can be combined to figure out what needs to be worked on. Obviously, links from high page rank sites are better if all other things are equal, but its the factors like relevance and the context of the link that usually have a bigger impact on its relative ranking value.
I think what happens is that we get so focused on pagerank and how to increase it that we forget that serp are much more important to get visitors, which is really what we all want.. more traffic. I personally do keep track of it and If my page rank increases or improves for any one of my sites that I own, I say great ,but if it does not improve or goes down I “try” not to lose sleep over it. In other words, I guess it’s one of those things that are great if it’s high for a site, but If it’s low then we should not try to worry about it too much. Serp is what really counts and if that drops down in the search engines dramatically then it’s time to be concerned.
It is very good article…
you can also read this good one
http://fullofarticles.info/2010/03/30/simple-way-to-get-high-pagerank.html
Pagerank isn’t only a report card. It is also a good motivation
No, PR is important thing, indeed it depends on your back links, this shows that how much your site is popular.
If you’ve number of back links your rank will be higher. keyword optimization also matter.
Good tips
Thanks