Page Rank

[grannytina]

I hear page rank is not as important anymore and neither are links. Is it true?

I know content is important.

What else makes your site look good to google? :confused:

[daliben]

From what i noticed, it's the content. Which includes specific and detailed titles and tags.

It's best to optimize your pages for mostly Yahoo, and keywords on Google.

If there's more info on this, i would certain love to read more. :)

[Millionaire]

Page Rank is very important. Content is important because it make people link to you, which in turn increase your page rank. There are many factors to Page Rank. To make it simple, yes, content is the most important. This is more of a chicken or egg question.

For revenue, Page Rank also determine the rates you get for the adsense on your site. Google did informed us that the same ad on one site and another site will get different rates due to many factors. One of which, I suspect, is page rank.

With the new rule on Adwords, your Page Rank also determine if your ad will be displayed and in which order it will be displayed.

Google will no longer display multiple ads that link to the same destination page. This means an individual merchant won't be able to dominate the results for a given search query by having its affiliates bid for the same keywords and link to the same landing page. Google won't give preference to merchants over their affiliates, but will show the link that has the highest ad rank

[nthom]

Page rank in my view is critical to marketing success. Infact your goal should be coming up for keywords in google search ect. Free advertising is the goal.
Put aside all the scams,forget about all the e-books to buy and let this advice sink in! If you own a website and need traffic and links for popularity then this is where you start. Do searches for your best keywords in google and advertise on those sights. This gives you a one way link from a dominating website to yours. Powerhomebiz or work-at-home-business.com are examples. The first one recieves over 1 million page views per month with 80,000 uniques. They are page 1 #1 google search for home business. The google adwords beside it would cost probably $4-$6 per click. The price to be on thier front page is a fraction of the cost per click.
My advice is advertise on these type of sites and also in thier e-zines. One e-zine I use from time to time is $25 and goes out to an optin mailing list of 30,000. Safelists and many mailing lists you buy are into are nothing short of a waste of time! Traffic or page rotaters raelly don't work iether. I used them at onr time before I quit. I can recall having 15,000 page views one day and not a single sale.
To make money online without an investment of any kind is very difficult. The easyiest way to provide fresh content is with RSS feeds.

nthom

[Raisecapital01]

I learned that page rank has a lot to do with information, and how much traffic your site receives for searches. It is great to have a lot of information on your site. Keep up to date news running in the background to increase your traffic.

[franke1]

Page rank also has a lot to do with how often you update the content on your blog or your site. It is important when you want to sell your site or exchange links.

[mickmel]

I hear page rank is not as important anymore and neither are links.
It is less important than it used to be, but it's still quite important.

For revenue, Page Rank also determine the rates you get for the adsense on your site.
I disagree. Google takes factors into account such as the content of your site, but not the PageRank. The example they gave was a site with photos (site "a") would get less for "digital camera" ads than a site with digital camera reviews (site "b") would earn, simply because the users at site b were looking for cameras and were ready to make a purchase.

I learned that page rank has a lot to do with information..
What do you mean by that? I'm confused...

Page rank also has a lot to do with how often you update the content on your blog or your site. It is important when you want to sell your site or exchange links.
Not true. It has absolutely nothing to do with how often you update the content on your site. PageRank is strictly a mathematical formula based on the number of links to your site, the PageRank of those pages, and the number of outgoing links on those pages. Just math.

That being said, how often you update the content on your site will affect how well you rank in the search results - it just won't affect your PR.

Mickey

[jshaffstall]

I had a reply mentally composed to clear up some of the misinformation in this thread, and then ran across Mickey's reply, which is perfect.

So, "what he said". ;-)

Jay

[Cleve1]

I read this somewhere .. I hope your use it

Content is king and links are queen.

That unfortunately is here to stay.. So better get out there and get those sweet backlinks and then optimise your pages well.

[matthemattrix]

I do think that having good page rank is desirable. However, from my experience as a blogger low page rank doesn't seem to be the death knell.

Case in point: I have a blog that was PR3, and it was Google-slapped down to 0 not so long ago. I was mortified. But since then my traffic hasn't dipped, and I still get the same amount of hits from search engines as I did before.