Pagerank (PR) does not pass any search engine results page (SERP) ranking value. Even, nofollow link with hyperlinked helps to push SERP ranking in other search engine than Google. PR link that is a link without rel=”nofollow” tag only passes PR value that can increase PR in next google update. If PR does not increase SERP ranking in google, then what is the real purpose of PR introduction? Of course, PR is calculated from dofollow backlinks therefore it could be crawled and indexed by google and get PR credit contributed.
To me, PR is just a trophy by google. It is used to boast among competitors in the same niche in some coffee talk. I don’t want to have PR1 when my close competitor has PR6. So, I will try my best to get at least PR5 or 6 to look even with my competitors. So far, I can only see one logical reason for someone to hunt good PR. Comparison among competitors and ego problem of having high PR is the only reason people hunt for higher PR. If you have already able to beat your competitor in SERP ranking even though your PR is lower than your competitor, is PR really matters to you anymore?
With existence of dofollow blogs, forums, website, directories, social bookmarking sites, ping, etc – There are plenty of ways to generate dofollow backlink that will get crawled by google bot and get indexed. This dofollow link will contribute PR juice and represent in next google PR update. It’s been almost 5 years, Google introduced nofollow tag. Still, there are several ways we can buy, create dofollow links instead of getting organic backlinks. Does it mean that nofollow rules failed? What is your thought about this?
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I prefer to have lower PR but higher traffics to my site. PR actually doesn’t mean too much. But most people are still unaware of this issue
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Atniz Reply:
January 14th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Me too. I prefer to get top ranking in Google SERP ranking compared to PR. Either way, there are always advertisers willing to pay some money for a link from our site.
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