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Originally Posted by Agent 488
the pr of your site does not matter where you rank in the end. but for sites linking to you it matters a lot. although there are other factors when evaluating the worth of an incoming link, pr is the basis of the google algo and will always be. get a decent pr 7 link and see. it will trump thousands pr0 relevant sites with great bounce rates blah blah ....
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That used to be very true. These days it isn't.
The last significant PR update was at the end of March. Before that was New Years Eve.
That means most sites have not been adjusted more than twice in the past 10 months.
So sites that 'should be' PR3 are PR0 and sites that 'should be' PR0 are PR3. That does *not* mean the algo is counting them the way their displayed PR lists them. The algo is up to date and continually updated I am sure... the displayed PR is not.
Put yourself in Google's shoes. Why would you give webmasters an accurate, easy and updated way to decide which sites to buy links from, how to sculpt their own link weight, etc... when your goal is to get the best sites top ranked. Google wants the best sites on top, webmasters want the sites they own on top. PR helps webmasters, not Google. That's why they killed it... and yet many webmasters refuse to believe it.
There is no substitute for actually visiting a site these days, looking at it, deciding if its a site worth reading or capable of entertaining visitors.... and that is exactly what Google wants people to do.
