Pagerank 7

I have pr 4 and 5

Originally Posted by Salathe My blog got PR6 with only around 5 articles and as far as I can tell, only 3 backlinks. Might've been a fluke but being linked from very few high-PR sites might help your PR more than 100x low-PR links. But, I'm no SEO expert at all! To be honest though, I'd rather have a PR3 site with great content and tonnes of traffic buzzing around it than a PR6 which is pretty much dead on it's feet.

Thats true, there used to be an article on here that had the rough estimates of what PR you would get from having X number of links from different PR's - A few links from PR7's for example will give you a higher PR than 100 links from PR4's

Although PR seems really strange to me and in reality is a lot less important than people make it out to be as it actually means very little. It tells you the importance of the links linking to your site but it doesn't say a lot about your actually site and I don't believe it has any baring at all on your actual SE rank which when the giving the name "Page Rank" you'd think it would

Please, SEO guru's feel free to correct me - I'm just not a big fan of PR

Pagerank is a measure of google's trust for your website.

If it trusts you it will rank you higher and allow you to up people's ranks.

But it doesn't actually do anything in terms of where your site gets ranked in the search engine as you can be #1 with 0 PR. I dunno I've never been a fan of the concept really, just seems rather pointless....

Fixate your concentration on content and proper marketing, not PR. I can't honestly believe people still talk about PR. It's to be taken with a pinch of salt.

Thats the way I look at it too.

If your site has good quality content and you build some good quality back links (not just links for PR) then your going to do a lot better than if you concentrated solely on PR.

The main reason I can see for people setting with the goal of simply getting a high PR is to sell PR links to people who are still fixated with trying to improve their own PR rather than actually trying to improve their website and their SE rankings and this is the type of thing google are actually supposed to be clamping down on, so focusing on just PR is eventually going to do your site more harm than good anyway, isn't it?

People buy text links on high PR sites because it's better for their SEO.

Google trusts the website linking to them and some of this trust is passed on therefore their SERP improves (mainly for the anchor text).

Having a link on a high PR site though isn't going to guarantee you a better SE ranking. Being linked to from sites that are relevant and are already well placed in Search Engines (as a lot of high PR sites rank poorly) is surely more efficient?

If you have a website about cars and buy a link on a PR7 site about the universe (or even from a link farm type site) then your sites PR will improve but your SE ranking probably wont.

At least thats the way I've always been told it works, from what I've read. I'm no expert though if I'm wrong just let me know, in fact I probably shouldn't be saying anything when I don't know if its purt fact or not.

Damn I've been stuck on PR 5 forever now. I can't ever get to PR 6!

*edit*

I just checked. I have over 5,600+ backlinks for my blog, and still, the predictor says I will only be at 4.8 (rounds up to 5), with 80+% accuracy.

Boo! I'm guessing you gotta hit the 6,000 or 6,500 milestone. Jesus!

It's not just the quantity but the quality and relevence of the sites the backlinks come from, eg for each site the number of links required to obtain a certain pr are going to be different for every site.