Does page rank matter anymore?

Yes that is spot on. Pagerank and financial success can vary independently!

There may be some correlation between page rank and success ... because if you create a great site with superb content, it will naturally get good backlinks, and eventually end up with a decent pagerank. Also as a result of the superb content you should be able to make good money from it.

I used to be obsessed with my own PageRank, I was led up the wrong path by misinformed posts and people obsessed with it. I now realise it is not worth thinking about it for a second, you could have spent that second doing something more useful like writing a word for a great article!

To use a bricks-and-mortar analogy, judging a site by page rank is like a restaurant by the number of reviews it has (good or bad) in various books and magazines. That will give you no idea of how profitable the restaurant is.

Traffic is king and the life blood of any site,PR as i see it is only any good if you plan to sell a site you can command a higher price for the site and also if you are selling links on your site you can charge more the higher PR you have.

PR is almost completly useless in real terms. It is only really good for getting a feel of the sites size in a hurry.

I agree, Page rank isn't the end all factor in ranking. All it dose is rank the page, not rank it in the search engines. Like theemperor, I used too be obsessed with my PR as well. However, I realized that it just isn't important.

Dont follow the green fairy dust. You will go mad

Create a good site, build relationships in your niche and vary your traffic.

I agree with you that page rank doesn't matter at all and i personally don't care it.

it's an indicator that your site has good content and popular

PR is meaningless. Many people will advocate posting an article to ezine articles first because you will 'get better rankings' which is completely false.

I post my articles to my PR 3 site, which outrank EZA even with little in the way of back links. I think it used to matter but Google got smarter and it has little impact, the same as domain age doesn't mean anything.


Chris

Page rank seems to be nothing more than clout, in a way similar to what credit card you use. You can still get the goods without using the "best", because "best" is all too often a subjective judgement call.

It's easy to have sales from a page rank 0 site and any low ranking site too. There are some high ranking sites I would trust my life to though, but through due diligence, I might just believe what I find on a low ranked site.

One of the posts here mentioned that is is important when it comes time to sell, and that certainly makes sense, but as an insider now, knowing how backlinks are often falsely earned, performance is key. Page rank and performance can be completely opposite.

I no longer depend just upon Google since SERP can be manipulated and now, whenever I do research, I'll take it to multiple SEs, past even Yahoo and Bing/MSN.

Being discovered is necessary to get traffic, the way search results appear in my browser show nothing about page rank, so it's only if you did deeper and follow IM and all of the techniques do you even become aware it exists.

I think it's somewhat a nonissue, but it is helpful to look at it from the perspective of competition. In the courses I've taken, it is stressed that when you are doing your keyword research for microniches, look at the competitor's Google page ranking. If the top SERPs all have low ranking, then it is an easy market to enter because, if you can get a higher ranking, you will out-position them.

So, I use it as a tool, a guage, and nothing more. But , would I like my sites to rank higher? Sure...

As always, I believe the content, backlinks, and other factors matter more than pagerank (PR).

Is the PR of a site and the PR of a link related?
As many here mention that a sites PR doesnt (really) matter that much, does the PR of a link make a difference when trying to do SEO?

Content is of more value than PR, how I wished to exchange all my PR for the authorized content for every page! But it is impossible, so all we have to do is to focus on our own site, is it really interesting and useful enough to get visitor's eyes?

PR is one of the 200 ranking factors in Google Search Engine.

you can't ignore pagerank it is as necessary as other factors

If you want to sell your website so Many people watch your Website Page Rank and your website inner Page

Did PageRank ever matter unless you were selling links?

It depends on what your goal is.

If your goal is to sell a certain website then, yes, its PR matters as you will be able to fetch a higher price for it if it has a higher PR.

But if your goal is good search engine ranking then PR has little if not zero effect. I know this from experience. One of my autoblogs with a PR of zero ranked on the first page of Google for several important keywords and attracted over 1,000 visitors a day.

Personally, I think it matters very little...BUT IT SURE IS FUN TO GET SOME!

For me it matters but great content and quality backlinks is more important than PR.

yes, for high page rank site google give more weightage than low page rank site.
You also get keyword ranking in comparision of low page rank site.
Any site with low page rank can have high keyword ranking in google.

Read Googles patent if you want the answer.

To sum it up. It is a factor in the algorithm but a small factor.

Personally. It only matters if you are selling links/websites. You get people that still buy based off that and until they wake up and stop buying based off of PR then you will still get people that are selling and think it's important.

If your site PR is 6 or 7 and traffic zero than PR 6 is not of any use except you sale your site link. PR is nothing just an link analysis algorithm, i think its better to focus on traffic than PR improvement

Pagerank is not an indicator for success, its a google parameter used for ranking sites. But if you are doing SEO in right direction then Pagerank will be helpful. Pagerank means your site is old so you can go for high level of linkbuilding. If you perform large scale linkbuilding for a new site then it may hurt your site but old sites are mostly safe from this risk.

So this SEO is directly related to your success, and not pagerank.

Pagerank can be a first indicator about the backlink structure of a website. The ranking depends on relevance onpage and offpage. So a lot of non relevant but high PR backlinks increase the Pagerank but not always the ranking that much.

having a high PR site is good, but traffic determines how beneficial your site is.

I have sites with PR4 which receive NO traffic at all and no revenue.
I have one site PR3 which is a "slapped together" autoblog which only re-posts and re-links news.
And i have one site which did NOT have PR for ages (now got PR1 recently) which is VERY HIGH in Google for the main keyword and actually my site with the most traffic.

So..PR doesnt mean anything.