PR is a joke.
Concentrate on Content and you will get the traffic. Stop looking at your PR no one cares...haha

Originally Posted by psylocke

As I read in many forums PR is not the basis of a website, it is the traffic it generates and the backlinks that count.

Say, a site has PR0 and other site has PR2, When I searched for a particular keyword, I got the site with PR0 on #1 and the site with PR2 on #5, Here, PR does not work, but when I check backlinks via "allinanchor" code, It says the site on #1 has more links, SO, how can we say PR depends on backlinks? I have this doubt...... Can you clear this out? Please

Originally Posted by Barak Obama

Say, a site has PR0 and other site has PR2, When I searched for a particular keyword, I got the site with PR0 on #1 and the site with PR2 on #5, Here, PR does not work, but when I check backlinks via "allinanchor" code, It says the site on #1 has more links, SO, how can we say PR depends on backlinks? I have this doubt...... Can you clear this out? Please

Simple, Quality over quantity

I don't think there's any differences between 3,4,5, but when your PR is up to 7,8,9, that works.

Page rank is still important.. Tons of sites wants to exchange links with you if your having high page rank value...

i would say pr is still important as far as selling links is concerned, lol

Page rank is still important.. Tons of sites will exchange to your because you have high PR value.. PR will absolutely drops if you lessen or stop getting quality of back links..

Originally Posted by jusvie

Page rank is still important.. Tons of sites wants to exchange links with you if your having high page rank value...

Originally Posted by bailey.rein

Page rank is still important.. Tons of sites will exchange to your because you have high PR value.. PR will absolutely drops if you lessen or stop getting quality of back links..

How does having people wanting to exchange links help?
Answer, not at all

PageRank isn't not important, but it isn't nearly as important as it is played out to be. People assume that high pagerank equals better spots in SERPs. It's just not true.

The pagerank is very important but only if you content is well organised ( if you use h1 tags etc )

Originally Posted by dan101

The pagerank is very important but only if you content is well organised ( if you use h1 tags etc )

huh? that doesn't make any sense

Really? Pagerank is important? Well it seems these reliable sources say otherwise:

https://www.googlecommunity.com/foru...portant-2.html
http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp...o-big-deal.php
http://www.doshdosh.com/google-pagerank-doesnt-matter/
http://searchenginewatch.com/3629775
http://www.manishpandey.com/2008/goo...gine-rankings/
http://neworleansinternetmarketing.c...ank-important/
http://hostdepartment.com/blog/2009/...lets-see-this/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10003/1237.htm

Google has been a huge learning curve for me at www.ProDryers.com. But as I have muscled through it all, I learned so much. Hopefully some of this will help:

1st, never pay anybody for seo unless they provide results first. Even at that, I would think 3 times before paying them if you have decent web skills.

2nd, Obviously, format the meta keywords and meta desc tags properly, and carefully title your site with maybe 3 key words. I use Hand Dryers | Baby Changing Stations | Restroom Supplies | ProDryers.com

3rd, Pay for the Google adwords. It seems the more ads you have running, the more links Google will see and it seemed to help me move up in natural listings over night.

4th, I did pay a service to submit my sites links every month to all major search engines for the first 6 months. I don't know for sure if it helped, but it seemed to.

5th, get in directory listings. I am still trying to get in the DMOZ (I think that is what it's called), but no luck!

6th, very important: If you can spare about 1400 per year, join the mcafee secure program. They scan your site every day and provide you with a real time link that displays their secure approval. They also give you 3 back links, and they are a PR 7

7th, Join shopping comparison sites like Pricegrabber, Nexttag, Yahoo Products, shopping.com, etc. - I noticed a huge leap up after I joined each of these. The cool thing is, you may set a monthly budget for pricegrabber, but for me, nobody ever clicks my products. I could care less because I am getting a flat rate to increase my Google PR.

8th, don't forget to lace your images with the alt tag. the alt tag will describe the image to the search engines and trust me, it is well worth it.

With all my hard work, I went from page 18 on hand dryers, baby changing stations, and some other key terms - all the way to page 3. I still have a lot of work to do, but it takes time. Another thing that calcs your Google PR is the weight of other back links and the age of your site. So by getting my links on Mcafee (a PR 7) and Price grabber (I think the PR is pretty high), and all the other places I mentioned, it helps improve your PR over time. But give it time! Nothing happens over night. you may have to wait a couple weeks to see Google really index you properly.

Good luck!

Tony
www.ProDryers.com

PR has nothing to do with the website traffic or SERP. I am telling this from my personal experience.

Originally Posted by rajupp

PR has nothing to do with the website traffic or SERP. I am telling this from my personal experience.

People sometimes interpret their personal experience wrongly. Google say that PR is used in the ranking algo so I know who I'm going to believe.

People seem to take one of 2 extremes. They either think PR has absolutely no effect on rankings or they think it's the be al and end all. There is some middle ground you know. PR has an effect but it's not much.

Now move on. There's an army of PR cadets waiting to take your place and obsess about it.

I on the other hand have dropped all my link exchanges. I’m curious to see if my rankings go up after a while. I also don’t think that the DMOZ will take a site if it has link exchange links on the site, and I’m not sure even if the link exchange programs comply with Google’s guidelines that Google some how doesn’t put a damper on the sites using them. Pagerank is just a voltmeter per say to a sites link juice. I’m a Pagerank 3 trying to get a 4. It’s a big jump from 3 to a 4 and to stay steady in the rank.

How often your PR drops in a day?

The PR is updated in every 3 months and it is calculated according to incoming and outgoing links.

Originally Posted by Extreme-Seo

is calculated according to ... outgoing links.

Sorry, would you care to fill me in? Because that fails to fit into what I have believed in until now...

Pagerank is very important, it tells the google how important that page is for google. If you are having pr 5 and your competitor is having pr 4 then google will always prefer you. If you are talking about ranking and all that then Onpage factors matter.

Originally Posted by dhanjit

If you are having pr 5 and your competitor is having pr 4 then google will always prefer you.

If you're going to use ambiguous terms like 'prefer' you should explain what you mean. The implication from what you said is that Google will rank higher those pages with higher PR. That's not true.