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Originally Posted by langard
So if you have great PageRank and terrible RI standing I guess your glass is either 1/100th full or 99% empty, depending upon how you choose to look at it. Conversely, I can almost guarantee you that anybody whose site occupies a top ten rank in Google's RI for a few hundred different keyword combinations couldn't care less if the PageRank 'Gas Gauge' for their pages is permanently grey.
I still have a hard time believing that chasing PageRank is anything more than a waste of time and effort that could be better spent improving the 'other' 99 parts of the Google algorithm.
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Show me a well ranked site without it.
Not sure what RI stands for, but Ranking Index, perhaps? Notwithstanding my quote above, it is not likely that PageRank is merely one of 100 factors. It is actually the premise on which Google was founded, and I am doubtful that you can show me a site that is ranking highly without PR. Quality, relevant incoming links are a large part of 99% of all sites in the top 5 positions and quality links invariably bring PR.
Links are critical - internal, external, incoming and outgoing, the anchor text and the surrounding text - these are some of the very heavily weighted of the 100 factors. I cannot recall a site that disproved that.
If PR were only one of 100 factors, Google would have already done away with it, but like it or not, this patented system is central to Google search. It is not PR we must chase, but the right inbound links. PR comes with it and just one gauge of the success of your link development.
Happy Linking, MJ