Page Rank Engine Released In Beta

[OldWelshGuy]

your dead right Paul. Page rank is simply a mathematical figure. A bought link to your sports site from business.com homepage plus one or two other PR9 or 10 pages would probably get you a PR7 or 8. But one single link from say the BBC sports section PR3 or 4 page would see you catapulted to the top of the serps.

The simple fact is that a link from such an authority site counts highly, and a site from an on topic page on an authority site is gold dust.

I agree that PR is just a reflection of how your link building is working, but surely i you have equally (on page) optimised sites, one being a PR 2 and the other being a PR 6, the 6 will win in the SERP's.

So I don't see how you could say it means nothin these days?

Assuming this is right though, what would you sy are the most important optimisation points at th moment?

[Paul_KY]

No, in most of the cases, the PR6 takes a back seat to the PR2 page.

[OldWelshGuy]

Page title, anchor text of incoming links are the two main items. BUT you really can not and should not focus on individual items of SEO. If you algo chace the latest thing, you will end up chasing forever. If you carry out complete SEO then the changes in the Algo willnot affect you.