[gregdavidson]

So far most people have told me that PR means absolutely nothing and cannot help out your position in the search engines. If that's the case, why the heck did Google come up with PR in the first place. It seems that most websites that get tons of traffic from Google have a high PR. Also, besides buying an expensive placement on dmoz.org or emailing hundreds of webmasters for a link exchange who never seem to respond, how EXACTLY can I get a high PR for my website? Submitting to free directories doesn't seem to do a whole lot because most directories have a decent PR on their homepage which is not website your link is placed. If somebody can PLEASE help me out on this I will really be thankful.