Just curious as to how important Google's PankRank is to the people on this forum. Are you concerned about your site's pagerank? Is it something that you use as a metric to measure the success of your website?

Thanks!

- Clayton

well, if i ever get my site up, i plan to focus a lot of attention on SEO (search engine optomization) so that it will appear among the top of the list with most searches.

As far as this being a measure of your site's success. That may not be the case, because you could pull business from elsewhere and not just search engines in general.

HTH

Doug (The Admin of this site) has some interesting articles regarding this and googles changes on his site.

Basically in a nutshell it is not as important as it used to be but at least a little direction in whether your site is linked well.

See this post. His URL is on the bottom of the posts.

http://www.agentsonline.net/forum/ultimatebb.php/topic/17/2.html

Your nutshell is spot on. PR doesn't really mean anything any longer and the toolbars and calculators out there are buggy at best. I was just curious if this crowd still thought it was important or not.

I am concerned about the pagerank of my site's homepage. I see it as a metric of the success of my own efforts to improve its position in the search engines.

I use pagerank to evaluate the pages within my site. For instance, I am pleased that my resource link pages are only 1 PR less than my homepage. This indicates to me that my link structure is sound.

I am disappointed that some other links on my homepage are 3 PR less than my home page (the five town links across the top.) I look at that and wonder what I have done wrong (probably duplicate content penalty - need to fix that.)

I have prioritized my own search for link exchanges by the PR of potential partners. This is to maximize my effectiveness, since I was starting from zero. I know this is imperfect but the results have been gratifying.

Whenever someone requests a link from me, my only concern is the quality and relevance of the site. I ignore PR totally.

Don't beat yourself up over page rank, it's totally useless. It is NOT a good metric for how well your site is doing in any respect.

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"Don't beat yourself up over page rank, it's totally useless. It is NOT a good metric for how well your site is doing in any respect."

Wait, didn't you start this thread?!? :rolleyes:

Does that mean that it's important, or not (" ... in any respect") IYHO?
Please share with us your thoughts on the importance of Google's Pagerank, it seems VERY interesting (and important) to me.
Thanks.

I started this thread to see how important page rank was/is to the people on this forum.

To me PR is not important, PR calculators are buggy and misleading, easily confused and generally not reliable.

PR is important if you're selling/buying links, but as a general metric of your site's sucess it's lacking.

PR is becoming less and less important as Google is implementing many new ways of ranking sites. That does not mean that PR is not important. PR is still one factor in the game.

When you are doing a search for almost any keyword you will notice that the sites which rank on top almost always have higher PR then the sites below. Don't let that throw you off, your website could be up there with any PR as long as you have rich keyword content and backlinks which are related to your topic.

Hi everyone,

Sorry for not being more active latley but things are crazy around here

Anyway, my thoughts are that PR is not the be all and end all but if you are building your links naturally, PR will undoubtedly come which is a good thing. Be careful telling people not to worry about PR at all because if they are not showing any PR or are building links responsibly and not seeing modest increases from time to time then that would be a red flag for me to tell them to examine there practices more closely to determine what's happening.

From that standpoint, PR as a warning sign, yes having 0 PR can indicate that there are problems with your site (if it had been banned).

PR 0 does not mean that a site has been banned, just thought I should make your statement above a little more clear even though you didn't really say it is banned

Anyway, there are many different types of bans Google can force upon a site. Some sites continue to show their PR even though their website is not ranking well at all.

A good way to see if your site has been banned by Google is to take your domain name example: somedomainnamehere.com and do a search within google for it. If other cached sites within Google have that keyword within their page then their website will come up before yours. When you do a search like that, your site should be the "FIRST" result.

My 2 cents.

Thanks, folks ... was just hoping to stimulate a little discussion here on the "PR" subject.
Very helpful!

That's true, in the past a greyed out PR bar or a sudden drop to PR0 meant that there was the possibility that the site had been banned. However PR toolbars and calculators are pretty buggy so who knows.

YES YES YES and again YES very important and it should be to anyone with a website

here is a banned url with a PR of 7: http://www.seoinc.com/

Google Toolbar PR is meaningless as far as rankings and traffic are concerned.

However, Google's internal PR is extremely important - it is the basis for their SERP's.