Page rank

[c_t]

Does increasing the Page Rank of a domain increase its value?

thanks

steve

 

[jon]

Generally, yes.

 

[ThreeD]

In most cases - sure thing

 

[JoshHendo]

Yes. I know a few people that buy high ranked domain names. Also, if theyt are high ranked it also means that there are generally allot of other websites linking to them!

 

[Eric]

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query. <Quote from= http://www.google.com/technology

So in all, PageRank is rather important So my vote would be Yes. It does add value.

 

[StudioWorks]

Yes but increasing pagerank doens't mean that your traffic wil be increased.

 

[jamieneil]

Yes but increasing pagerank doens't mean that your traffic wil be increased.

Off coarse it does cause more ppl view your page/site/domain.

 

[jon]

Yes but increasing pagerank doens't mean that your traffic wil be increased.

Obvioulsy sdfdsfsdfdfdsfdfsdfkjkjflsdfdsf.com would be worth more if it was PR 8 rather than having no PR at all.

Off coarse it does cause more ppl view your page/site/domain.

This is totally untrue. PR has no relation to traffic what-so-ever.

 

[edits]

Ya I have a PR 3 website that gets roughly 1 visitor per day...and a few PR 0 sites that have a couple hundred visits per day....So PR won't get you traffic and I wouldn't believe is based on traffic.

 

[StudioWorks]

Off coarse it does cause more ppl view your page/site/domain.

Wrong. For example, one of my web sites that has a PR4 has less traffic less traffic then a PR0 web site i also run.

Like i said many times before : pagerank isn't what it used to be.

All the best,

- SW

 

[Ray]

yes it matters alot.. it seperates the DOMAINS from the just domains