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How important is PR to a website? What does it do to your website? I'm sorry about the question, I just want know about it and make it clear to myself, so that I would be ready when I start doing IM. Thank you so much.
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  • PR actually is not that important but it shows how a website is finely working around the net.. PR is base on the volume of backlinks you gained...
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    • Not so much the volume of backlinks but the quality of backlinks.

      10 links from 10 PR9 website will be better than 1000 links from PR1 sites.

      Regular, unique content will also help your PR. I've seen sites with good PR that have less than 5 links from PR1/PR2 sites, the rest are PR(N/A) so good content is key.
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      Optimizing a website to increase Google PageRank is not as important as optimizing a website to get free search engine traffic.

      Below is a link to a post that I recently created with information about this topic.



      If you have any further questions, concerns, or comments, feel free to post them.
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    • Nope wrong.. PR is definately NOT calculated by the number of backlinks.

      In fact after studying PR hard, I've found backlinks hamper your ability to gain it..

      It's all about site relevancy, your front page being relevant to all the other pages, interlinking and being an authority site.. i.e you everything is LSI, and interlinked where you are writing something very related to another page.
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  • @homebasedmom - I'm assuming that you are talking about building and profiting from sites monetized with Adsense? If so then don't even concern yourself with the PR of your site. Just focus on getting targeted traffic that will convert well for advertisers. Period.

    Dean
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    • The quantity of links on the page also affects how much juice is passed.

      If your link is on a PR7 page with 300 other spammy links, its going to pass next to no juice. If your link is on a PR3 page with only 4 other links, you're going to get more juice passed from the PR3 page than from the PR7 page.

      And remember if the link is nofollow, it will be ignored for Google PR purposes.
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  • Hello,

    PR is important for getting links from other site to your site. It will help your website to get links from the other sites and PR depends upon the backlinks to your site. So build more backlinks for your site. Backlinks will help to increase your home page PR.

    Thanks
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  • I think the main point here is that if homebasedmom is looking to make money with Adsense sites she does not have to worry about PR of her site as a critical factor. You can have a PR4/5 site that gets virtually no traffic, for example so at the end of the day unless you are selling PR or are using an established property with PR already then it's pretty much a redundant consideration. In other words, people obsess over PR far too much and this is something homebasedmom should not be doing when starting out. My 2 cents

    Dean
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  • PR is dependent on the amount/quality of backlinks you have. Building backlinks is the same as building PR. You need backlinks to get to the first page. The only thing else you can do is writing content that needs only a small amount of backlinks to get there. But usually this kind of traffic is of lower quality and less in numbers. So instead of building more backlinks you have to write more content. More content, even if it needs only a few backlinks, also means making more backlinks.
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    • Hello

      PR shows your site's popularity. If you want to check your site's popularity download google toolbar.
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  • PR is very important to a web page. That brings traffic to that page automatically. I am sure that more PR will bring more guys to your site. However, there is right opposite case too, There are sites which is on TOP on google which PR is 0, but the site with PR5 is on 10th place, this is due to the keyword density and the anchor links for that (inbound links).
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    • Really ?? how come it brings traffic AUTOMATICALLY?
  • I think that PR is important and a lot of people would like a higher PR and higher PR links. But I also think that there are a lot of people who think that it is the END ALL BE ALL. Which it is not. I have seen people pass on link exchanges with related niches due to low PR. To me this sort of thing is silly.
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  • Thank you so much for the replies of this post, I will keep everything in mind.
  • PR gives a valuation to your website. As the PR grows up, cos of your domain also grow. Many sites and organization consider PR first for rating a site.
  • PR is very important as far as the popularity of your website is concern. Its tell you how popular is your website in the world wide web. The Pr also give you a idea of how your SEO on page and off page efforts are going on.
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    • For those of you that say PR is not important have either

      -lost your high PR ranking

      - or don't have a high PR.

      I have a couple of PR 5 blogs in specific niches. When breaking news occurs in these niches I post about it and guess what, I always nearly rank number 1 for that post.

      Coincidence? I strongly doubt it.
  • Pagerank is Google's way of ranking websites based on their importance. Pagerank calculation uses the traditional approach of assessing the importance of the work of an author. The importance of an author's work is assessed based on the number of times it is cited in other works and who cites them. If other important authors refer to a particular work then the importance of the cited work increases.. In scholarly circles, authors cited other work only when it has something good to contribute to their own work.
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    • Hi tazsolmarketing,

      You do a great job of describing the original ideal of Google's PageRank concept. However, much has changed since the original algorithm and PR plays an insignificant role in the SERP ranking. Too much PR manipulation has forced Google to alter their algorithm and today PR is no longer reliable in determining the importance of a page.
  • Pagerank of a webpage is just number stars google assigns to your site pages, which is usually decided by a page's on page and offpage factors. It has nothing to do with generating traffic to your website, and infact one of the factors in page ranking is number of visitors visiting your site.
  • I agree with the earlier comment of not worry about PR.

    Focus on building your site with quality and getting quality links back to it that are relevant. If you do that, PR will come naturally.

    It's weird how it happens too... I just noticed that several of my sites (more than 20) just "jumped" from PR0 to PR1, PR2 and even a PR3 -- all at once.

    I've never really worried about PR and still make money with many PR0 Adsense sites.
  • Well, I recently wrote an article if Pagerank helped blogging or not. Well, pagerank does help.

    You get higher SERPS, you get more traffic, you can more readers and there are many other advantages to it.
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    • That is a common misconception, It's the SERP rankings along with backlinks that gets the traffic, the PR has almost no impact whatsoever. If you have any empirical evidence that backs up your opinion, please share!
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    PR?

    How important is PR to a website? What does it do to your website? I'm sorry about the question, I just want know about it and make it clear to myself, so that I would be ready when I start doing IM. Thank you so much.