It’s the truth.
Google is powerful and SEO specialists are becoming blind!
Come on people…..get back to making sites for people and not Google’s machines.
Google, be nice, stop dictating users on what to do and start helping on how and why. Mainly new developers who should be using their time to improve their pages are instead using their time to create shortcuts to PRank.
The other day I met a colleague from an old job here at Australia. She was looking for some websites to advertise her client’s products. I suggested her some urls, but one in particular had good content and extremely informative.
Surprise Surprise, she asked me about this website’s PR and told me that she wasn’t using anything below 4. I asked why, and she told me…”I read something….“.
How can this be right?
Don’t get confused, I’m still advocating and I still think that you need to put efforts to make your website visible on the rankings, make it easy to find, but to goto such efforts just for PR?
Unfortunatelly that’s the god everybody is praying for, including myself.
Cheers
Lucio Dias Ribeiro
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Lucio,
You bring up a very good point. I think the pr is an indicator of the overall site authority. That should not be confused with the amount/quality of traffic the can offer its advertisers. We used to select strictly on pr. Then I noticed that a small pr 3 site sent me more traffic than the pr6 site.
Posted by Khalid Hajsaleh | September 13, 2007, 10:01 pmThere you go Lucio,
What are you talking about?! You’ve been selling the PR idea since forever and now just changed?!
Make your mind please
Rene
Posted by Rene | September 14, 2007, 1:09 amKhalid,
that’s my point, PR gives a directions but cannot be decisive for any other strategy. I’d rather have a better ranking positioning than a high PR, probably it’ll bring me more traffic and more ROI than just a high PR thats useful for Google’s
Cheers
Lucio
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | September 15, 2007, 1:18 pmRene,
You didn’t get my point,
Theres difference between having a high PR and having a good positions on organics searches.
You are mixing up both models,
Nothing is better than a good content and a GOOD position. I just think that PR is driving to much attention more than it should, that’s all
Cheers
Lucio
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | September 15, 2007, 1:20 pmI just don’t get it. How can someone judge the quality of a website by using the Google PR as a yardstick? Someone must have been fed with the wrong information.
I can point to many websites or blogs with PR from 3/10 to 6/10 and they suck big time. On the other hand, there are sites (some of them are new) with great, quality content.
I guess that was your point in making a case out of your friend’s remarks about which sites to visit for information, etc.
Have a nice day.
Posted by Markk | September 17, 2007, 10:54 amI hate Google now . I hate Google and I hate Google. Google is not sporting to competition. It misuse its authority. My page rank fell down to 0 from 2. OH ! Its really frustrates . I hate Google I hate Google I hate Google.
Posted by Blog Opinion | November 20, 2007, 9:33 amLucio, while I believe some of the things you’re talking about make sense I don’t really agree that PageRank is not important, because simply without good PageRank people will not find your site no matter how good or relevant the content is because it simply won’t show in the search results and this is why SEO is so important .. you could simply create the best site in the world but nobody will find it if your PageRank is not good enough to make it show in the search results .. on the other hand good PageRank with no good content is useless too, because people will find your site but they will leave a few seconds after they find it, so, to state this correctly we have to say that both PageRank and good content are important
Posted by Waleed Eissa | January 4, 2008, 1:40 pmmate if you want get seen in search results check out this page and then check the results on google. they stopped my adsense account and deleted some pages from search so i put my own system together and it works. i got page 1 for Google page 1 in just a few hours.
Posted by spike | February 1, 2008, 5:20 amsorry forgot to say the page you want is http://www.dse9.com
Posted by spike | February 1, 2008, 5:21 amBlog Opinion,
dont leave the hate dominate you, PR is NOT ALL
there is life after it.
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | February 7, 2008, 3:45 amWaleed
thanks for your comments,
I think we are talking about different issues here.
I am talking about the visible Page Rank and not the internal pangerank system used for google.
Im not against PR, what Im not for is the habitual mode to have the visible PR as the only metric.
Its frustrating.
Cheers
Lucio
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | February 7, 2008, 3:48 amSpike,
page one google in a few hours?! Just if you using “scam” as tag.
Sorry mate, dont believe in get fast schemes.
Cheers
Lucio
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | February 7, 2008, 3:49 amVisible page rank is just about the strangest thing Google has come up with. It doesn’t mean much of anything unless you are level 7 or above. We had a page rank of 4 at one point, but then it just kept dropping. Now it is zero but our search results have never been better. Getting search results from a page like ours is especially tough since by nature of being a link site we have not much content! :)
Posted by Bill | March 15, 2008, 2:25 amPR can give first impression about a website on its popularity, visitors etc. This will be very useful for advertisers. For others not much use.
Posted by Blog Stats and Updates – IV | March 9, 2009, 7:46 pmI share your view
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | March 9, 2009, 11:00 pmThe page rank increase or decrease is the biggest load of nonsene and i am sick of it. Spammy sites are continually rewarded despite the fuss over paid links and blog posts. Its absolutely unfair to people who are actually trying to produce good content for the market not just churning out rubbish for the sake of it. Google needs to check its algos and spam regulations and stop preaching one thing through Matt Cutts etc then doing something completey different. It just contradicts itself and its pissing me off
Posted by mike | April 3, 2009, 4:38 pmMike spot on, I couldn’t agree more!
Lucio
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Posted by lucio | April 3, 2009, 11:27 pmSpot on, right on my point!
IT IS NOT A RELIABLE way to measure traffic!
Posted by Lucio Ribeiro | April 4, 2009, 6:56 amSO TRUE…who really cares about page ranking, at the end of the day it page ranking ONLY means ‘quantity’ and not QUALITY…scrap the idea i say.
Posted by chief | August 23, 2010, 7:10 pm