Is pagerank related to traffic?

by Elsoft

Posted: 13 years ago 9 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Just wondering about the page rank for a website.Is it related to the traffic or just based on the number of external links to the website.Can someone explain.Thank you.

#pagerank #related #traffic

Mike Mendell 13 years ago

In a way, yes. Pagerank is just ONE of the many factors that Google uses to determine a websites' position in its search results. The higher the pagerank, the more sites it has linking to it which means it's more popular and thus likely to get more traffic.

That being said however, a lower PR site can definitely get more traffic than a high PR site. It all depends how the webmaster drives traffic.

If you want a better way to gauge a site's traffic, visit Alexa the Web Information Company
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- Bill Farnham 13 years ago
  
  It was sort of meant to be that way. In other words, the idea was that people who visited your website would like the content, or find it valuable enough to create links from their websites back to yours in order to share the wealth on the net.
  
  And that implied you also got the traffic to correspond with the links.
  
  But that was in a time long long ago and far away...now you can have 10,000 backlinks to a site that has a grand total of 10 visitors.
  
  And people think Google can't figure that out...
  
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  Jungle123 13 years ago
  
  In other words - High page rank= quality content,visitors,traffic!
  
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  Michael Shook 13 years ago
  
  It was originally a way for Google to decide which pages were better and were visited more often, but like a lot of things on the internet, it is based more on probability than actual count.
  
  I don't pretend to know the inner workings of Google, but I am guessing that there are many variables that go into deciding what a page's page rank is. Both quantitative factors like number of backlinks and actual visitors and qualitative factors like time on page.
  
  I have read in a number of places that PageRank is being phased out along with its sibling the nofollow attribute.
  
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Elsoft 13 years ago

Thanks guys.What do you think is the typical time frame for a site to reach PR 3.
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- DIMSKK 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Elsoft
  
  Thanks guys.What do you think is the typical time frame for a site to reach PR 3.
  
  There is no typical duration. But you can consider it to be normally an year or two!
  
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DIMSKK 13 years ago

I think it only depends on backlinks and their quality (and site age too). Nothing to do with traffic. I have seen sites with very very little traffic and PR4. But there are sites with pr1 or pr2 and lot of unique visitors a day!
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gosocialsa 13 years ago

The page rank of a site is determined by the number of higher PR sites that link to it and traffic it generates and age of the website.
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Andy Fletcher 13 years ago

Pagerank is purely a measure of how many webpages link to a given webpage. It has nothing to do with content quality, traffic or the phase of the moon.

However, your site's ranking for a given search term factors in many other things than just pagerank. Eg there is no guarantee that a PR4 will appear higher in the SERPs than a PR3.
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