Do You Really Care About PageRank?
November 29, 2007 | By Gobala Krishnan | 8 Comments »
Come on, out with the truth. Do you or do you not care about the world’s most feared little green bar, PageRank?
Some people check their Pagerank everyday, especially those hoping on using it to get better rates for their advertising, text links and paid review. Others gave up trying to figure it out a long time ago and instead focus on looking at the numbers that matter – traffic and ROI.
So do you, or do you not? No in-betweens. Take the poll.
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Honestly, before I was smacked by Google (because I was using PayPerPost) I was really into the PageRank thing.
But now I realised that traffic was much more important than PageRank.
Also, just in case someone’s wondering was my traffic affected because my website’s pagerank was drop? Well, no I have not seen a decrease of traffic. Actually, I have seen a 10% increase of traffic from Google Search
I care a bit! If we take it as a measure of “quality” as measured by links then we can look at the PageRank with some understanding.
But for a business what matters is cash flow and ROI. And if I had to choose which web number I could it would be a low alexa number rather than a high PR!
Alex
I care too, good PR can get advertising easy, we should focus on quality and PR together.
It seems like the PR noise won’t stop.
PR does not really show the quality of a page. Since a computer program can not read. It sees a bunch of words so in reality the PR ratings are skewed.
How many times have you done a google search and the top ranking pages are just MFA with worthless content.
Most of the time the top ranking pages do not have the highest PR either.
[...] While navigating around my blog to check out my latest readers from MyBlogLog I noticed that my page rank bar looked rather fat. I did a double take and sure enough I had been upgraded from the almighty to [...]
PR is updated 1 to 3 times the year so there is no point to check it over and over. PR depends of your backlinks, not from your content.
Honestly, I do care a lot about Page Rank. Its been a very essential factor in the success of my blogs. It certainly helps in getting more sponsors for your blogs and you can sell your blogs at higher prices if its highly ranked. A-listers say they don’t care about it, but if you are not an A-lister, Page Rank is the only factor that can really make you earn in hundreds per month with every blog.
I get your point, PR is sometimes important just because the market thinks its important..