Page Ranking

[creationz]

How important is page ranking?
and how do you improve it?
SEO?
BackLinks?
Directory submissing?
google adsense?

 

[Julio]

Mine went from 0 - 4 in only 3 months. I did it only by trading links with sites of PR 3 and up and submitting to directories.

 

[lasvegascom]

page rank is not important, but it does sometimes give you a guide on the value of a website or webpage. I have seen sites with a pr0 have top rankings while sites with a pr7 have no rankings.

build good quality links and you will build you pr. but dont let it be the judge of anything. the only things that are important are rankings, traffic, conversions and revenue.

 

[peter phillips]

To improve PageRank of your site get links from sites whose PR is higher than yours. Google judges the importance of sites through links. A link equates to a vote that a site is worthwhile. The more sites that vote for your site, the better.

 

[kroniczero]

doesn't really matter... indexed pages matters much more, and how high you are on those pages is what really matters

 

[cursal]

PR is going through some changes IMO

Nothing I heard, just speculating.

PR used to stay around after a drop, well we all know that doesn't happen anymore

In general Keyword Domain names are better than PR names straight out.
I have a name that is less than a month old with target keyword in the name and it is getting 2000+ uniques a month and making decent $$ off PPC. PR 0

Maybe PR will have greater value again in the future.

Just as a side note* if you pick up a dropped name that had PR, I found you really have to "baby" it and make full use of .htaccess files, .txt files, and 301 redirects from old missing pages. With out pampering a dropped name odds are that it will lose rank on the next update. This is from personal testing. of 5 sites this year

 

[pcoptimized]

I've been to some forums that believe PR is the only thing worthy out there. They're entire study is to see how high they can get their PR.

I believe PR is good when you're trying to sell ads on your site to others etc., but not so sure it means anything beyond that.

In my opinion, it's best to work all areas. But don't forget the other PR that is just as important if not more. I'm talking about Public Relations. If you're wanting to get people to your site, relying on only the search engines, while neglecting other methods is not the best approach. Search engines work on text and mathematics. While it's true you can work to have advantage in this area, if you're wanting to drive traffic to your site, remember to you have other options like promoting it yourself. I have a site that went from 0 - 2 in a short period of time. I think it happened because somebody who has some sites that are higher in pagerank linked back to mine. However, I don't get nearly the traffic on that site as I do on another site that I just launched that has zero page rank today. I manage another site that has zero PR, yet is first in search, that the owner enjoys orders frequently from that site.

I think the best approach is to build a site that is simple, build up a client base, build things into it like a forum where people will come back and content is being created. It may take time, but in the long run, it will get indexed higher. I share the opinion of kroniczero, that indexing is more important. But having a higher PR, it helps you when you want to sell ads, links, or such on your site.

 

[tutzking]

The thing is the higher the PR the more money you can make from selling text links so the higher the better in my oppinion and the higher the PR usually means more traffic because you have more links linking to your website.

 

[softgroups]

Do you people make a diference from the PageRank as mentioned in the first google google project and the Toolbar PageRank ?!

We all known that google got a few more then 1 single PageRank. there is an internal pagerank from 1 to billions (but there could be more , read the *** for more info) and a toolbar pagerank that is from 1 to 10.

Now, as you saw in the last G updates, lot's of webpages, where getting a really high Google Toolbar PageRank even if they wheren't having to many high incoming links. There where cases where pages with just 1-5 incoming links of PR1-PR2 where having PR5-PR8! google tend to add more Toolbar PageRank to pages that are ontopic, and got relevant incoming/outoing links!



*** There could be more internal pageranks, why?! because the knowadays google only counts at the 100% value, only the backlinks from websites that relevant to yours. for ex. if you got a health website, and you get 1000 backlinks from Pr5-PR10 website, won't help you in SERPs. Because of that , I (with my friends) think that google got a pagerank for every keyword it could find on your website! even for combinations of keywords like "free php scripts" , "php scripts" "free scripts" ... got it?!

 

[cursal]

There could be more internal pageranks, why?! because the knowadays google only counts at the 100% value,

I'm not so sure about the 100% backlink relevancy counting, but I am witnessing PR rank on many internal pages of my content and sale sites. Good stuff :hehe:

 

[softgroups]

thanks a lot and sorry that i am not an english native