Google PageRank - Important or Unimportant?

[Spaceman3750]

There is a lot of controversy over whether PR is important or not. My view is that if you plan to sell the site later, PR is important, but if you are not planning on selling, you should be more concerned with your traffic and conversion rate.

So, what do you guys think? Do you care about PR?

[cheater]

I don't use page rank at all. I don't care what a site's pr is when I visit it, and I don't care about boosting my site's pr. I just care about getting traffic.

[Aravapalli]

Check this link which explains, which is best of getting traffic or page rank

This link explains how the page ranking is calculated

[Robert]

All Google Rage Rank does is give you some idea of how important Google thinks your site is. It has absolutely nothing to do with how well you rank.

By having a high Page Rank all that means is that you will be spidered all the time. If you are a always adding new content to your site then having a higher Page Rank can make you rank quicker, only because your new content is being spidered and indexed quicker but you would rank just the same with out Page Rank, it would just take longer.

So PR wont help you rank but it will speed up the process.

[Spaceman3750]

Has Google's new system for deciding what PR a site is affected you guys? They started discounting/blacklisting sites that used paid links, link exchanges, and directory links. One of my sites got blacklisted, what happened with you?

[LXscope]

PageRank is extremely important for webmasters. PageRank ultimately means the site's popularity. If a 4+PR domain expires now, I could buy it, put adsense on it and make upwards to $100 a week.

Site resellers really need good pagerank.

[Heather]

I'll be following this discussion closely, because I've been wondering a long time whether I ought to be concerned with PR or not. It's sounding more and more like 'not' because I do not intend to sell my main site, ever.

However, I have several other domains that could develop into PR sites that could bring in a bit of cash...their parking pages aren't doing much for me in that regard. Hm. Soo...carry on.

[LXscope]

Your site's pagerank also has a lot to do with how much attention it is getting from google users. Google is the main source for unique hits on the internet today, and the higher Google ranks you, obviously the more successful your site will be.

The higher your rank, the higher you will show up on their searches...

It obviously doesnt hurt... And if Google thinks good of your site you know you are doing something right!

[Envy]

As above, PageRank means a great deal to webmasters. PageRank could easily be the deciding factor as to whether or not you will receive buyers for adverts.

In addition, PageRank generally allows you to charge more according to your ranking level. Obviously, a PR4 is going to earn less than a PR9 when it comes to CPM or Monthly advertising rates.

[GandalfTheGrey]

As a web master that have two web sites I might sell in the future, I would think Page Ranking is important to focus on. But also if I am using my site with for instance AddSense, with a high page ranking i would generate more potential traffic.

Wouldnt the conclusion be that even though PageRanking might not seem important it could increase the value of your website and at the same time the revenue of your website? So isnt it then important, that is if you wanna make some greens