Nobody can deny the importance of page rank but yes the toolbar page rank is not accurate you can use page rank checker.

Google's trademark for their proprietary measure of link popularity for web pages. Google offers a PR viewer on their Toolbar.The thing is if ou are looking for making money through link backing then your blog should have rating more than 3 .

PR changes so often it probably isn't important as it's never fixed!

Originally Posted by bharathvn

Hello,

I was focusing on my website PR, but few of my friends told me PR is not valid any more. also for web directories.

is it true?

PR has something to do on where is better to link with, but we should focus more on how to be visible more in our targeted keywords.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

It just doesn't sink in at all does it.

PR is NOT an indicator of anything other than the PR.

NOT "Quality".
NOT "importance"

NOT anything other than the PR of the pages that point to the target page.

I agree Chris, however, the "little green bar" is so...pretty. Unfortunately it seems to have a very strong power over many whoom worship it. For those who worship the "little green bar", beware of false idols!

Page Rank is important up to and until Google is here, so PR is valid and every one focusing on good PR

Originally Posted by aladamapee

Page Rank is important up to and until Google is here, so PR is valid and every one focusing on good PR

Well it is your choice to waste your time.

Originally Posted by rolda hayes

Chris told you it wasn't valid...

You acknowledged it...

Then asked how to check what yours is??!!

LOL You're right, all of his statements are confusing. He even told us that he's focusing on his site's PR. Meaning to say, he knows how to check PR eversince.

Just a benefit of the doubt, maybe he's just only asking for another site which he can use for checking his PR.

I don't think so.PR is still vaild.

Originally Posted by bharathvn

Thanks Chris!

How can i check my PR?

PR checker:

http://multipagerank.com/

So if PR is not valid anymore, are there any other suggested metrics to determine how well your site stacks up against competitor sites?

Why do your "competitors" sites/pages matter?

They ONLY thing you should care about is "Do MY pages convert well enough.

I doubt that your bank manager would take "Toolbar PR into account", and there is only one kind of "green" your local supermarket will exchange for groceries.

pr is valuable if you have a very stable site

I guess I just have to chime in here since we continue to have these discussions (and as long as we allow Google to control us we always will).

Personally, I think there is a tipping point where "real" PR begins to matter. I have yet to determine that tipping point, but Google clearly states that PR does have "some" affect on SERP's. If you search for highly competitive one word terms you will see only high PR sites at the top.

The other side of that is "a watched pot never boils". Stop drooling on your keyboard whilst staring at a useless toolbar and start creating content actual PEOPLE need, content that other webmasters will WANT to link to, and the rest will take care of itself naturally. There is NO easy route.

Originally Posted by bharathvn

I was focusing on my website PR, but few of my friends told me PR is not valid any more. also for web directories.

is it true?

They dropped it from Webmaster Tools back in october (http://searchengineland.com/google-q...er-tools-27821) with the explanation basically that they say it's not important so they should stop showing it.

I think the message is clear.

But having a PR means it having a reputation. like medal

http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...dpost&p=306951

And the "entertainment" is the Google engineers having a laugh at YOUR expense.

PR is still valid but nowadays its somehow not important anymore because for such a website, to gain traffic is the important thing and you can gain such a traffic by improving your site SERP's ranking rather than the PR rank.

pr is most important thing for know about site brand. Google only give pr to best qualified site. now people also look for site pr when they buy any product or services from that site. so pr is the most important thing which people follows.