| Forkbeard |
07-02-2005 06:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by AmateurFlix
PR isn't any indication of traffic - one of my PR0 blogs gets far more s.e. traffic, and top 10 google listings, than a PR4 site I have.
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The second part (after the hyphen) may well be true. The first sentence is not.
As a rule of thumb, PR is a great way to distinguish between "new site with no traffic to speak of" and "established site with many organic links, which gets and can send at least some traffic." Of course exceptions can exist -- there are PR0 sites with huge traffic, and PR6 sites with almost none. But (huge understatement here) that's not the way to bet.
999 times out of a 1000, a newish PR0 site (especially one that's seeking your link) has effectively zero traffic. Zero PR doesn't prove zero traffic (that's why I suggested these guys use a public hits counter) but if PR is the only data you have, it is, indeed, a very effective indicator that won't often serve you wrong. PR, especially zero PR, is an extremely reliable indication of (zero) traffic. Correlation, not causation, but still a valuable marker.
I'm not talking out my ass here. I've evaluated many tens of thousands of incoming links over the years, and never yet gotten more than a dozen hits a day from a link on a zero PR site. NEVER.
Which never stops any two out of three of these 0PR flash bastards from saying "I've got tons of traffic, I'll be PR4 after the next update, I'm dumping 10k a day of purchased traffic on it, et cetera ad nauseum." Bullshit bullshit bullshit. In theory it could be true, but it never actually is.
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