PR mean anything?

samkhan · #1 (**permalink**) 19th February 2007, 01:28 AM

please see my problem details.

There are a handful of threads about page rank, how to improve it, finally having got some ... it seems like Google's most controversial invention. I think it's almost meaningless, but I really don't know that much about SEO.

My highest page rank page over the last three or four months has been
an article on soft focus, so says Google Webmaster Tools, but this month 15 other pages have been visited more often. It was the entry page for 1/3 the people who saw it, mostly from links, and not search. On the other hand, my portraits gallery has traditionally been my most requested page, and "SEO Quake" says its PR is zero. My next most visited are two, three, and zero.

I'm guessing PR is one variable in how search results are sorted, along with more important things like what the user typed in, and lots of tricky stuff like keyword density and what neighborhoods you belong to. I can see how people might take PR as a very rough gauge when you don't know all the other variables. But the goal is to have people stop at your site, and page rank doesn't predict that.

Suggetions?

rowenahere · #2 (**permalink**) 11th March 2007, 10:53 AM

Page Rank on Google relies on the free distinctiveness of the web by using it various links as marker of value for single website page. In effect, Google decodes a link from the original page to the next as a hit. Google view at more than the total volume of hits or links; it also evaluate the website page that transmit the hits. Hits transmitted by website pages are far more important because they help make other pages important as well.

w3bmaster · #3 (**permalink**) 24th March 2007, 05:18 AM

It's true that the Toolbar Page rank doesn't mean much these days, as the true pr is updating constantly.

However, I can still find 2 good uses for it:
1. it is a snapshot of the pr at the moment it gets published.
2. it can make my day brighter if my websites` pr goes up

The best thing to boost your page rank is to get listed in popular directories and get maximum back links .

Gracia · #4 (**permalink**) 27th April 2007, 05:24 AM

Quote:

It's true that the Toolbar Page rank doesn't mean much these days, as the true pr is updating constantly.

However, I can still find 2 good uses for it:
1. it is a snapshot of the pr at the moment it gets published.
2. it can make my day brighter if my websites` pr goes up

The best thing to boost your page rank is to get listed in popular directories and get maximum back links .

A very good reply.

Cheers

mini_0 · #5 (**permalink**) 29th April 2007, 06:03 AM

Page rank is a very crucial thing when you want to be in the searches . Keywords will paly a more important role as competitive leywords are cetainly tough.It's easy to measure the page rank of your own site or any other site, if you install the free Google Bar. Go to Google and click on "more". One of the options is Google Tool Bar. Then just follow the installation instructions.When you have your Google tool bar, you'll see a small white rectangle in that tool bar that is a bar graph. It shows the page rank of the site you're looking at. If it's all white, then that site has a rank of zero. If it's gray, then it's unranked. If it has a page rank above zero, you'll see a red bar extending across the rectangle in proportion to the page rank.