Pagerank is not so important - Page 4

rankland · 05-23-2007, 08:31 PM

pr. is a trophy google uses to say your doing a good job.

It doesnt improve your content, it doesnt give you top serp, and it definately doesnt make me a more effective submission.

It may help my popularity, and traffic though so you cant say pr. doesnt matter .

Americantruckbuyer · 05-24-2007, 03:57 AM

The main thing for a webmaster is TRAFFIC ...

PR do not bring traffic but popularity brings.

Do more and more submissions for popularity of ur site and not for increasing PR.

Puneet M

Julie · 05-24-2007, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Natural Elements

Julie I dont think so.

I have page like this cart.asp PR4, there is nothing on it, I have pages with nice articles PR2.

Once again I don't care about PR, because it doesn't reflect the hard work.

Only traffic matters.

Obviously other things matter as well, but completely discounting PageRank of having any value is just moronic.

Natural Elements · 05-24-2007, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Julie

Obviously other things matter as well, but completely discounting PageRank of having any value is just moronic.

Julie, perhaps it is important for some people or field like Directories or SEO and I respect that. But for store, customers don't focus on PR, they focus on products and prices :-), I focus on traffic, not PR ;-)

It depends on the field you are.

rankland · 05-24-2007, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Americantruckbuyer

The main thing for a webmaster is TRAFFIC ...

PR do not bring traffic but popularity brings.

Do more and more submissions for popularity of ur site and not for increasing PR.

Puneet M

If what you are saying is true....

1yr and 8 mo ago alive directory was a pr0......

Now alive is a pr7, and gets unreal traffic, and popularity.

Do you think if alive was a pr0 it would get as many links...

.................................................. .................................................. ....

Bluefind had the potential of being the biggest directory in the world....
When it lost pr do you think it had the same traffic raiting or popularity ?

softsolutions · 05-24-2007, 11:00 PM

page rank is important for backlinks count and page weight for search engine, but search engine ranking is different thing. To get better search engine position page need to be properly optimize and well contents on page. There are many other factors that are responsible for search engine position.
I agree with sniperhiga that a lower page can rank higher than high pr site.

Americantruckbuyer · 05-24-2007, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by softsolutions

I agree with sniperhiga that a lower page can rank higher than high pr site.

Hi "Rankland"

As "softsolutions" said above ...

Traffic to our site matters than the PR ...

If a directory gives more traffic and value to our site by listing into it than whether it would be lower PR then also listing into it would be important...

placing an Ad on a new and highly promoted directory with PR 0 (as its new) will also bring good traffic...right ???

If am wrong then plz let me know... so that i can improve myself...

Puneet M

softsolutions · 05-25-2007, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Americantruckbuyer

Hi "Rankland"

As "softsolutions" said above ...

Traffic to our site matters than the PR ...

If a directory gives more traffic and value to our site by listing into it than whether it would be lower PR then also listing into it would be important...

placing an Ad on a new and highly promoted directory with PR 0 (as its new) will also bring good traffic...right ???

If am wrong then plz let me know... so that i can improve myself...

Puneet M

I think Puneet M got me wrong.

If you search in google keywords "Montreal Classifieds", You will find my site pr 4 ranking top ten than other websites having PR5, PR6 elsewhere.
I never mentioned here to have link from 0 pr directory.
Yeah I think, if a lower pr directory sends 200 targeted visitors to your site is much better than a high PR directory which sends 10-20 visitors to your site.

rankland · 05-25-2007, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Americantruckbuyer

Hi "Rankland"

As "softsolutions" said above ...

Traffic to our site matters than the PR ...

If a directory gives more traffic and value to our site by listing into it than whether it would be lower PR then also listing into it would be important...

placing an Ad on a new and highly promoted directory with PR 0 (as its new) will also bring good traffic...right ???

If am wrong then plz let me know... so that i can improve myself...

Puneet M

Yes it will bring alot of traffic, but having so much hipe about pr in forums, and internet as a whole as soon as every site sees your a pr 5 there starts to be alot of talk reguarding you site whitch will create traffic, and popularity with your site.

misu · 05-26-2007, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by softsolutions

page rank is important for backlinks count and page weight for search engine, but search engine ranking is different thing. To get better search engine position page need to be properly optimize and well contents on page. There are many other factors that are responsible for search engine position.
I agree with sniperhiga that a lower page can rank higher than high pr site.

I agree. Thru research i discovered (as many of you did) that top ranked sites aren't the ones with the highest PR.

John Scott · 05-26-2007, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Natural Elements

Julie, perhaps it is important for some people or field like Directories or SEO and I respect that. But for store, customers don't focus on PR, they focus on products and prices :-), I focus on traffic, not PR ;-)

It depends on the field you are.

A lot of people - consumers - still look at PageRank to gauge credibility of a website. PageRank is no secret that just you and me know about. A lot of Internet savvy people know about PR and use it to evaluate a website or a company. I've seen people say that they thought a web host was not credible because the web host had low PR.

This discussion has already happened.

And even for rankings, PR still matters. It is not the only factor in determining rankings, but it is still an important one.

sniperhiga · 05-26-2007, 12:46 PM

By the way... Here some websites with pr5 or even less with millions clicks a month and pretty good Google positions:

http://www.ftpclient.com/
http://www.tshirthell.com/
http://www.tubal-reversal.net/
http://www.seologs.com/
http://www.directorycritic.com/

Directory critic can easily buy 2-3 pr8 links and i bet Google will give them pr8 because of over 30 000 blogs and pr0-pr5 sites link them. I think about 50% web directories ask websmasters to rate them on Directory Critic to get more clicks.

Natural Elements · 05-26-2007, 01:59 PM

Natural Elements · 05-26-2007, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

A lot of people - consumers - still look at PageRank to gauge credibility of a website. PageRank is no secret that just you and me know about. A lot of Internet savvy people know about PR and use it to evaluate a website or a company. I've seen people say that they thought a web host was not credible because the web host had low PR.

John, I did not know that, this is possible and I respect that.

My site was PR3 and I had more sales before the site increased to PR4, but this is my experience. This is why I don't believe PR matters for sales.

I am a buyer online too and I really don't care if the site is PR... as long as I can get the product I want for a reasonable price.

The funniest thing would be if a customer checked my Alexa ranking to gauge my credibility, this is silly.