Re: What use is Google page rank?
I think what people are missing is that the Google Page Rank system does not seem to be updated very often. So yes it is somewhat of an indication of backlinks to a particular site but many times the rank that you see for a site could be based on Google's analysis 6 months prior. That is why it becomes very difficult to assess and can at times seem almost impossible to believe. Some people even think that Google may be phasing this measurement out completely. No one but Google can really know this for sure.
The Google page rank metric should be just one of multiple means to assess how a site is doing. I certainly would not use this metric exclusively to compare two sites and make any accurate judgement based on that.
Eric
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