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Originally Posted by John Scott
No, sorry, I never suggested that.
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OK, but you do suggest that Average Outbound PR is a metric that could be used to analyze a web directory. Can we agree on that?
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Originally Posted by John Scott
Why do we need to know the exact PageRank? How is it debilitating to know a general approximation of the PR? A general approximation is all we need to know to get an idea of the website's credibility.
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The PR shown by the PageRank toolbars or some other such utilities/sites is not a general approximation of the PR. It is a number between 0 and 10 that
seems to have some relevance to the popularity (link wise) of the website.
A post from Webmaster World sums it up rather well:
* The toolbar does not reflect REAL PR.
* The toolbar is unreliable by design.
* Toolbar PR is virtually meaningless.
* Toolbar PR is not an SEO metric.
And even if you would somehow know the real PR of a web page (which you don't), that would still leave all the other possible link power analysis methods outside of your scope.