PR and links

[wesley]

This is more a general comment open to discussion rather than a specific question.

But what I find really incredible is that people will buy links just because a site has high PR. That is not even a wise business decision.

The idea of promoting a website is to get traffic and earn revenue from that traffic. Many of these supposed high pr sites do not have traffic to even help.

I would much rather buy on a PR 0 site with legitimate documented traffic that will go to my site that something with a high PR that means nothing in terms of me making a living.

[geeky]

If the site recieves good traffic and has quite a lot of content then it's PR will increase automatically even with just few backlinks. No PR0 sites will recieve legimate amount of traffic unless its only paid traffic.

And only some people buy links just because of PR. As far as I know that I check the amount of backlinks the website has, and PR and if it is relevant for my website before buying links. Though higher PR links are usefull to get your newly built website in indexing fast.

[webby]

I agree there with you that higher PRs get you indexed quickly but never forget the fact that once the link expires, you might also get deindexed if you do not have done more link building. Once one of my website got deindexed due to this. If the higher PR link is relevant then you get indexed even faster.
The basic idea of buying a high PR link once when you have newly made a website is to get indexed and then build small backlinks by submitting to directories or buy cheap low PR links or link from your other websites. Then you don't have a chance of getting de indexed from Search engines.

[wesley]

I understand what both of you are saying and actually that makes sense to me. That people are buying the link to get indexed.

But on this point, I wonder???

No PR0 sites will recieve legimate amount of traffic unless its only paid traffic.

I have 3 sites in my niche that are PR0. I am assuming it is because they have no real backlinks to speak of. But between google, yahoo and ask, they manage to send me about 50 people per day because my content matches the search results.

I realize that is not an enormous amount of traffic but it is enough for me to make sales on my product.

[Nixon1]

ya thats some thing people dont really understand
that PR0 doesnt necessarily mean
that its a bad thing

[webby]

PR0 is not a bad thing. But if a website receives traffic then it will also automatically get to PR3 or PR4. And if as welsley says, PR0 but receives traffic, then wait for the next google update, it's PR will rise. Your site may not be very old and if it is then there seriously went something wrong

[wesley]

But if a website receives traffic then it will also automatically get to PR3 or PR4. And if as welsley says, PR0 but receives traffic, then wait for the next google update, it's PR will rise.

I am glad you pointed that out webby. That is the part I did not understand too well myself. I thought it curious that PR could only be based on links. I will watch the next update to see where my PR jumps.

[LinkPopularity]

PR used to be mostly based on links, but it changed a lot over the years

it's 2 mainly thing content and links ! and then those thousand little details ;-)

but, links from high PR sites will help more then from PR0 sites !
that's for sure !

[marketraisecorp]

The Page Rank Of A Website depends solely on your inboud links.The PageRank of a website is calculated with the help of the following equation:

PR(A)=(1-d)+(PR OF LINK PAGE 1*D/NO OF LINKS IN PAGE1)+ (PR OF LINK PAGE 2*D/NO OF LINKS IN PAGE2)+.....+(PR OF LINK PAGE P*D/NO OF LINKS IN PAGE P).

Where A,is your website
D is a damping factor =0.85
link page 1,2...,P are the pages that has a link pointing to your website and can be found out by conducting a search on google with link:website.

[jgriff225]

I agree with rather having a site with good traffic than a site with high pr but no traffic.

[allfun]

I agree with you. But for specific keyword you also need to check that site's SE position. If it is in first 3 pages better to have a link from that site.

[TryUsOut]

Some actually buy a paid link from a high PR website for the link juice. If you do this perhaps on one or two sites, you don't risk that much in terms of being penalized by Google. Well if someone would report you though - that can be a whole lot different scenario.

[Marcos]

Originally Posted by geeky

If the site recieves good traffic and has quite a lot of content then it's PR will increase automatically even with just few backlinks. No PR0 sites will recieve legimate amount of traffic unless its only paid traffic.

I absolutely agree with you. The site must be well-organized and not over complicated. If the content is fresh and lucrative, the number of traffic will positively increase.

[gimme4free]

This is true, good post, I get 35 unique visits a day from 1 website that has a PR0 and only gets 50 visits per day!!!

[520xyz]

Originally Posted by Marcos

I absolutely agree with you. The site must be well-organized and not over complicated. If the content is fresh and lucrative, the number of traffic will positively increase.

me too, i totally agree with you

[letsnurture]

Ya guys it is the thing if you want traffic than there is no requirement of high PR, any link which has high traffic can use for the increase the traffic to your site.