Comments on: Why Your PageRank Doesn’t Matter

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:14:01 +0000

Google PageRank and high value links absolutely do matter for a number of reasons that nobody is mentioning. For starters, if your website is in the internet marketing niche or blogging niche or any niche where people are educated about PageRank, then your site's PageRank value conveys a sense of prestige and authority. If you have a PR5 blog, those people who understand PageRank to some extent will be jealous of you and assume you are one of the smarter internet marketers around. That would influence your trust level and believablitly. So it is worth it for that alone. Secondly, if you want to use your website to help others rank better, then your website will be far more powerful if it has more PageRank. Thirdly, I hate to break it to you, but higher PageRank websites command a lot more advertising revenue than lower PageRank websites. If someone says that their advertisers don't care about PageRank and only care about traffic, then they aren't as experienced with selling advertising as they might have you believe. Advertising buyers absolutely do care about PageRank. (At least big spending advertisers do.) BUT, buying links and PageRank is against Google rules and therefore, you should never buy links, or make sure they are "nofollow" so you do not get penalized by Google.

By: David Morrissey

David Morrissey — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:40:55 +0000

@Isaac: I believe Google actually uses PR to determine how to store webpages, under the assumption that those with higher PR are going to be visited more often and thus should be more accessible. So for example, there are millions of pages linking to adobe (which is why adobe.com has PR9); that tells Google it’s likely going to be an important resource, so it’s one of the easiest pages for them to pull up for the search results. So it’s not actually a waste of resources for them.

By: Web Your Name® SEO Information

Web Your Name® SEO Information — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:33:18 +0000

Rose you are so BLIND, it is not even funny. My homepage has a PR 3, not every page. Two other pages are PR 4 and by the time the next PR update comes, I will be a 5 or 6. What makes me an expert on PR? The fact that my website went up 32 PageRank points in one PR update, and that 18 websites went UP in PR. PageRank does matter, PageRank does influence rankings.

By: chandan

chandan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:51:00 +0000

Yes I completely agree with your point. I think now page rank is not so matter. I have seen that one guy got PR4 within 15 days of start of his website. So why google give that site such a handsome reward.
Only if you want to sell link then page rank matter, if you want to monetize your blog by selling ad space then traffic is matter, not page rank.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:41:47 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Dan, just want to say as someone that has been in advertising, I actually read AdAge and get email updates from them ( I am also developing a site for an ad specialties company).

Just want to express an opinion I have on links and pagerank. Quality links will be natural ones, not links you leave in comments. The links you drop in comments and other sites are purely promotional (advertising). It is the natural links that will actually build PR.

I comment on over 20 blogs a day, because I like to interact with bloggers, I like to promote my site(s) and I like to express my opinions, not for PR.

Thanks again for the value added comment…
.-= Keith´s last blog ..Follow Up To Pagerank: It Really Doesn’t Matter =-.

By: Dan Thornton

Dan Thornton — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:32:00 +0000

I think the temptation to obsess over ‘Toolbar’ Page Rank is simply that it’s an accessible metric for people to judge their success by – just the same as it’s tempting for me to obsess over moving up places in the Ad Age rankings for marketing blogs, or Technorati ranking used to matter (Not so much any more!)
Humans like lists and comparisons, and will always want to measure themselves against others. Personally I’ve fought a long, hard war with myself to focus on the things that really matter – how many people visit the sites I work on, how many people actively engage with what I’m doing, and whether or not it generates the results I’m after (revenue, increased awareness, etc, etc).
‘Internal’ Page Rank still seems to be important in ranking, although personalised results are moving us away from that – but it’s easier to focus on the right elements of building Page Rank – decent inbound links, decent content etc, and forget what the actual score is!

By: Sire

Sire — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:50:56 +0000

The only people who obsess over Page Rank are those who love to wave their rank as a placard of accomplishment, those companies selling products on how to increase it and the advertisers looking to build up the PR of their clients by buying advertising space on high PR sites.

The average surfer, who are the bulk of traffic, don’t care about it because the bulk of them don’t even know it exists.

By: Rose

Rose — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:18:04 +0000

I believe it was I who said PR is irrelevant. PR is irrelevant to traffic, or rankings.

By: Rose Desrochers Info

Rose Desrochers Info — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:32:09 +0000

Isaac, Google updates PR long before it is visible in the toolbar. Therefore the PR you see in the toolbar is out of date by the time it is published.

By: Page Rank Information

Page Rank Information — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:27:27 +0000

“while people like Rose are going to claim they don’t care about PageRank, she sure was quick to find a “dofollow” blog to post her comments.” Will……….LMAO, I didn’t comment on this blog because it was a dofollow. Keith could turn it to a nofollow & I would still comment . Dofollow- nofollow.. I don’t care!

I’m curious what makes you an expert on Pagerank Will?
I see your own site has a pr of 3.

Will are you saying Google employee Susan Moskwa is wrong too?

Will, what are you unable to comprehend here? Pagerank is not used by Google to determine your rankings for keywords.

Pagerank doesn’t make you an authority on a subject either.

Writing.com holds the number 1 spot for the keyword writing. There pagerank a 3.

Again………… Pagerank is not used by Google to determine your rankings for keywords.
.-= Rose´s last blog ..Google Pagerank- Little Value =-.