Basically, in my opinion PageRank serves many useful benefits that it can give to your site. But to be more specific, it is mainly an impression for the visitors, advertisers, link partners etc by which is quite important too to uplift the performance regarding the productivity and functionality of your site.
The higher the PageRank of your site the higher probability a single visits might stays longer because it will give the visitors a perceived idea that the site’s contents can be very useful and they tend to dig more the pages of your site or even better, refer your site to others. Also if you want to make money from your blog through advertisement, you can charge advertisers more for ads placed on your site. And you have many options to choose from because a high PageRank will lure many advertisers to advertise from your site. Also the same thing happens in luring link partners. The higher your PageRank is, the more chance that you can get quality link partners.
NOTE: If you want to rank well in major search engines, concentrate more in link building process and step aside your eager to have a higher PageRank for your site. It might just ruin your optimization process because SEO is all about competition in Search Engine.
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