Is Google Page Rank Really Relevant?

[A Mountain View SEO]

Originally Posted by cloudybutnice

Page rank is a useful little tool to give a quick impression about a site, but it is not that important in the grand scheme of things. However, despite this it still affects the price of a site that is for sale.

Very good point... PR is only relevant if you are selling something like a site or links.

[A Mountain View SEO]

Originally Posted by jam

Nope. Unless you want to sell your website. The higher the PR is more expensive is your site.

The public in general still values a higher PR site so if your long range plans are to sell you will want to boost that PR.

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Do you have some examples?

[A Mountain View SEO]

Originally Posted by Glen77

It is just one of the pieces of the pie. You can have a good PR and still rank poorly. I nice PR is a good ego boost though.

You are absolutely right... PR is more about ego than anything else. I think so much attention is given to PR is simply because site owners can not rank there sites well so they focus on something more obtainable which is PR.