How Important is Pagerank?

[ChuckArdezzone]

You take care of your website add unique content, submit it to dofollow blogs, forums and google will take care of your website's PR.

[hwyler]

I am trying to improve the page rank of my blog which is hosted by blogger. I cannot improve it from 1. Any ideas? Thanks! PS This is the blog: mydailyexecutive.blogspot.com

[strategic seo services]

Originally Posted by WriterWahm

Hi everyone,

I've read several threads here and there seem to be conflicting opinions when it comes to pagerank. I think everyone seems to be of the opinion that having your pages ranking well for your keywords is a great thing.

However, I see many people obsessed about backlinking and what they need to do to get their pages ranking well. They talk about .edu links and .gov links and so many other SEO methods.

Then again, I hear those who say that you should not really worry about your pagerank. They say, just write unique and relevant content and your pagerank will take care of itself.

I'm a bit confused here. Do I go out of my way to find proactive ways of building the pagerank of my site (pages) or do I just keep offering great content, leaving thoughtful comments on blogs, offering guest posts and let the pagerank build itself?

Thank you.

PR is important when looking for sites to place your backlinks on. If you're able to place backlinks on sites with a PR of 6 or higher, and those backlinks are dofollow, they will help tremendously to boost your site's rankings. The PR of your own site is of lesser importance when trying to achieve high rankings.

[KingKuba]

There plenty of sites that have page ranks in the 3-5 range who get tons of traffic and make lots of money.

Once you establish a place where people want to visit the page rank is not really that important.

If facebook had a page rank of 0 would people stop using it??

Sure a high rank helps initially but build something worthwhile and the rest will take care of its self.

Easier said than done though.

[chiri1979]

Hello

Currently for me it is so important for positioning page rank. If it is very important when creating inbound links are a good page rank.

[epathj]

actually,i don't care about PR.If you are making an active effort to create good content, establish high-quality backlinks and catering to the site user, not the search engine, the pagerank will take care of itself over time.

[Nathan Isaac]

Page Rank matters. That's all you need to know.


That's why you will see PR0 pages for very competitive keywords.

Let's say the root URL is PR9 and has such authority, that another page from it that has no authority can outrank straight up PR6 page.


Always focus on quality backlinks and not just quantity

[addyj672]

Page rank depend upon the number of backlinks a website have as the number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (for example, this is used by Google to determine the Page Rank of a webpage).

Surly! Quality website which have unique and different contents will have good Page rank but quality backlinks matter the most in page rank...

[Juvv2096]

Let me tell you this much.

Page rank is NOT going to get you sales, or visitors. Whats the point in caring then?

Can you be #1 with a Pr1 site? YES. Can you outrank a PR5 site with a Pr1? YES

So whats the problem then? The only reason PR really matters, is if you want to get a link from a site and you want to know if google has evaluated that site to have some sort of "gravity". Other than that, all its good for is getting you points in blog networks LOL.

Seriously, just worry about getting your site to rank, PR means nothing in terms of visits, sales, conversions and making money.

[kiwiviktor81]

PR does have some importance: if your site has internal linking then PR juice will be passed from one page to another. I have seen internal pages on my sites fly up the SERPs when I linked to them from the homepage of that same site.

[Mike Anthony]

This thread is the perfect example of why people cannot learn SEO just by reading a forum. There are people weighing in who have ABSOLUTELY no idea what they are a talking about even claiming that pagerank is not an indicator for authority where Pagerank is probably the only indicator we can be absolutely be sure is associated with authority (doesn't mean its the only metric for authority but the rest Google has been fairly closed mouth about and are harder to test for) .

The number one thing people get wrong is that before you can talk about whether pagerank matters you have to ask where the PR is. If you are talking about the pagerank of your site's pages then it may or may not matter based on the anchor text links that brought you that PR.

authority and relevance of anchor text go hand in hand.

If you are talking about ANOTHER site with a link from a high PR page and it does have anchor text you are targeting then not only does it matter it will be a key reason your site ranks.

So pagerank matters and those who say it doesn't just don;t understand the difference between having PR on your page and having other sites' PR pages recommending your page for a given keyword.

[zharfan]

Originally Posted by DonHuevos

I agree with most everyone else here. My sites that have and hold high SERP also have the best and most content. But, I am very careful with my backlinking. In my world it's quality over quantity.

quantity and quality must balance in way

[lindasalesglobol]

Pagerank can be vital for any website that depends on traffic from Search Engine. You will be ranked higher than another sites if you have a good pagerank. So, think today and start working on building pagerank to get better exposure on Search Engine rankings.

[johnasthlon]

Page rank is important. However, it is only a rough estimate at best, I'd much rather have a low PR site that rank for a bunch of traffic keyword than a high PR site that doesn't rank for much of anything for much of anything, In a simple sense yes PR is good for selling blog posts,increasing value of sites ,etc.

[axix245]

I agree with you man.Pr increased with quaality content and number of quality backlinks.Pr is very importance to any site.Search engine prefer high pr sites in ranking.

[Rahat]

Page Rank is good as it means google likes your page and it helps more and more backlinks, so page rank should increase automatically as you start marketing your website.

[PetGuru]

Page rank is so much important if you want to run your business through you site or if you want make money from Google adsense.
Actually page rank shows how much your site is trustworthy and reliable for customers and viewers.

[ishuvonet]

When I was a beginner I also gave importance on getting page rank.But now I know the real,ranking for your keywords are important than having page rank.

[crork]

page rank not important for your positions in google.