That's why I am more concerned with the number of visitors a site gets. In addition to search engines, I'm not much of a fan of link value, page rank, and all that jazz.

I look more for how many visitors a site gets, and if the site is nice and user friendly, thus that site gets more repeat visitors.

The more visitors, and, repeat visitors a site gets, the more visitors going to my articles in that site. Then the more visitors I get to MY site.

There are A LOT of sites out there that do big traffic, but they don't have any rank. Nor do they mess with it.

It's a big world out there! Plenty of unknown high-traffic, low-ranking sites to see!