Does higher PR mean higher rankings?
Does higher PR mean higher traffic?
Does higher PR mean higher revenue?
Is there an absolute answer, or just theories? I believe it's the latter, so my answer to the above questions would be an astounding NO.
Take the search term, "Free Games" for example (Don't click on the #3 listing, "Miniclip" or you'll face the dreaded, "Can't back out" script <Hi Donkey
>), you see PR6's at the top 3, yet a PR7 at #4. And low and behold, the net's largest, "Free Game" site, is at #5 with a PR of ZERO, or least that's what the redirect page is. Then you have Gamesville.com, the nets 4th largest, "Free Game" site, with a PR8, not even on the first page. The net's 2nd and 3rd largest, "Free Game" sites, Yahoo Games & MSN Games aren't anywhere to be found (Hmmmm...they happen to be Google's competition, as stated in their PRE-IPO statement). Oh wait, there's something that resembles MSN games, buried on the third page :roll: Heck, even Yahoo accurately list Pogo.com as the #1 listing, atop their own.
The #1 listing at Google has less than 200 backlinks. Pogo has 1800. The #2 listing has over 3 thousand. The #3 listing has over 4 thousand.
Google is broken, but I sure love the free traffic they send. :banana:
I wonder what the Googloids are doing with all of their lotto <cough> stock winnings <cough> earnings... :blue:
I could show you the above example for over 1 million search phrases. I'm sure of it.
This tells me I should continue to spend time building pages, rather than links.
JMHO
Peace.
Paul