How much PR affect your web?

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I want to ask that your sites PR have much effect with your rank or not?
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  • Profile picture of the author hobsdv
    I find that Pr has very very little effect on a websites rankings, its more about on and off page seo
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  • Profile picture of the author alantay
    It does not affect my ranking on search engine. PR seems to be not doing much in SERP.
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  • Profile picture of the author nevrak
    Not much I guess unless it's really high PR like 8 or 9.
    Beating sites / pages with higher PRs most of the times.
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  • Profile picture of the author Geraldm
    I have a genuine PR5 website which gets no traffic at all .... Just goes to show that PR doesn't mean anything in terms of traffic at least
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    • Profile picture of the author satrap
      Originally Posted by netfq View Post

      I have a genuine PR5 website which gets no traffic at all .... Just goes to show that PR doesn't mean anything in terms of traffic at least
      Completely agreed on that. Have seen so many high PR sites that get no traffic. However, having a high PR site, does give you certain advantages when it comes to SEO and ultimately getting traffic if you actually do some work.
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  • Profile picture of the author seoxpertsuk
    For me the biggest advantage of a high PR is when it comes to link exchanges. This makes it easier to get a webmaster to exchange links when you offer a link exchange to a page that is on the subject and have a high PR. PR is just a little evidence to factors in the mix.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    PR is ALL about inbound links.

    PR = Backlinks.

    PR is literally Google's measure of your backlinks. Based on number, type, location of them.

    It's nothing to do with rankings, traffic or anything - only links.

    Therefor a high PR is an indication that there has been substantial linking to that site. If those links are coming organically from industry related high traffic sites then high PR would also equate to high traffic. If those links come from lots of link spamming then it's likely that you can have a high PR and low traffic.

    Some people do not understand this and consider high PR to be the same as high traffic, or high value - hence why some people would pay for a link from a high PR site - without considering why it has high PR.

    It's like when people say "top search rankings = making money" which is also completely unrelated and many people have one without the other.

    When it comes to your online business and website in particular - everything comes down to the details of HOW you are getting links, traffic etc... there are no blanket statements that apply the same to every business.
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  • Profile picture of the author hoedha
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    • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
      Originally Posted by hoedha View Post

      in term of search engine rank, pagerank is not a valid measurement. I often see pages without PR can get better SERP position. It's all about OnPage SEO for most cases...
      That's not a valid statement either - I have clients with lots of position 1 results for keywords that aren't anywhere on their site - it's all about off-page factors.
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  • Profile picture of the author savvybizbuilder
    You should focus more on interesting content rather than thinking about your PR. What drives traffic is your content not the page rank of your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jnelson
      Page rank effecting the SERP ???
      I hope it would, I see low PR sites ranking well in my niche
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