Why I care about Pagerank
Is it because I think it affects the amount of visitors? It hardly has an affect that I notice. On my sites that I took a hit including More Merchant I have sen an increase since the Pagerank Upheaval. So no, I don’t care about Pagerank necessarily for the traffic.
I sell only links on a few sites, yet Google hit me on sites that do not sell links. Also on the few sites that I have that sell links all the links are in direct relation to the content. This is important to me as a publisher because I want my readers to get valuable info. I don’t sell links to anyone. I sell quality links, and thus Google should respect that since they say they are all about quality. I am too! So don’t hate me. Love me, because I am not a spammer selling links to anyone.
I can generate traffic, I have always had decent traffic.
The only reason I care about The stupid game Google plays called Pagerank is the same reason why I care about the ridiculous Alexa.
It is because Advertisers look at both Pagerank and Alexa. That is why. I am online to make money. This is the reason why Google is online and they make money so why should Google hate that I make money?
This is the reason why I feel Pagerank is important. Should it be? Nope. But it is. At this point we have to deal with it until we can get away from the all evil Google.
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For months i’ve been saying that pagerank does not matter.. Every time someone complains that they have only a PR2, I tell them it’s no big deal – nobody cares..
Then the other day when PR on my main site dropped from PR5 to a PR4, I was devastated and started looking for my rope and wobbly stool.. I know it doesnt ‘really’ matter since it does not affect SERPs or my traffic – but like you said, advertisers look at PR so it can potentially affect my bottom-line. Now I tell everyone that as long as the recent PR drops were even, across the board, “it doesn’t matter”..
I agree, as long as they were across the board, but they weren’t across the board as proven by the big names getting some pagerank back.
More on this tomorrow.