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Adier · 05-12-2008, 06:05 AM

Two schools of thought exist in the SEO industry. The SEO copywriters and the Link Mongers. For reasons put forth here, the Link Mongers will always win in the SERPs.

In pretty much every SEO forum you'll see posts proclaiming PageRank is dead! or Google no longer bombable. These SEO's then proceed to announce the triumph of "content" or "on-page elements". Oddly enough, the SEO's who proclaim the death of PR and the triumph of on-page elements SEO are usually the ones who lack PR themselves (sour grapes syndrome) or are SEO copywriters (self serving propaganda).

Each time somebody announces the uselessness of PR, I hurry to Google and type in Computers.

When I see the usual suspects in the top - Apple, Dell and Compaq - I breathe a sigh of relief and go back to business as usual. As you probably know, none of those three sites has the word Computers in the page titles or body copy. That search on Google, Computers, is my long time friend. Whenever somebody suggests that "SEO Copywriting" - content SEO - is useful, I run over to Google, type in Computers, and hit Search. Every time, the results are the same.

Article by John Scott, read more PageRank Wins - Off-page SEO vs Page-elements SEO

TimuM · 05-13-2008, 09:16 AM

PR is not death and will not be. But do not confuse real PR with fake PRs. It is an easy way to get fake PRs for your sites

Thanks

GuidingStarGroup · 05-13-2008, 11:53 PM

I don't care with PR as long as I have rankings and quality traffic.

Adier · 05-14-2008, 06:31 AM

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Originally Posted by GuidingStarGroup

I don't care with PR as long as I have rankings and quality traffic.

The article is not for PR itself actually if you've read the article theirs a explanation why it's titled that way plus I have a recent post about SERP and PR Recent changes is Google?

reza.afshar · 05-18-2008, 06:57 AM

I also don't care about PR........ but the main point is number of back links

jay.robinson15 · 05-27-2008, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by GuidingStarGroup

I don't care with PR as long as I have rankings and quality traffic.

Exactly, if I am ranked in the top 10 for all of my keywords and I'm getting thousands of unique visitors to my Website each day, I don't really care if I have a PR 0 or a PR 7, because in the end it's really meaningless.

Adier · 05-28-2008, 06:29 AM

Yes and the article is more about link building that's if you understand it

MalibuREstate · 10-13-2008, 08:06 PM

It is better to focus on quality vs. quantity with page rank. You are better off having editorial links on relevant sites rather then links spread out on free directories.

youbetcha1018 · 10-15-2008, 03:00 PM

Yes you're right Malibu. Quality is important. If your work has poor quality then you'll get poor traffic too.

mrbrian · 10-15-2008, 05:42 PM

I care about PR and quality of my site for the consumer. If there is nothing to get the consumer to want to stay, it will not matter what your page rank is. But if your page rank is great but you cannot get the consumer to stay, it doesn't matter what your page rank is. Everything seems to matter and in one way or another interrelate.