Perception Is Everything – See How Google Is Slapping People About …

I would take traffic from Google over any other source of traffic on the web, except for traffic coming from my articles on other sites, and even that traffic probably originated from a search in Google. Google and Google PageRank have always been important to me – that's one of the reasons a sudden large drop causes so much concern. Most SEO experts mistakenly believe PageRank is meaningless because Google is not giving us the true ranking of any site or revealing all the backlinks, which is supposedly one of the major factors in how Google ranks sites. Say you have two identical sites you want to do business with online and you discover one is a Google PR2 site and the other is a Google PR8 site – which one would you choose to do business with? Even if it has little bearing on your SERPs rankings or Google traffic, PageRank can greatly influence the success of your online site or venture. The day Google gives its own site a PageRank of PR1 or PR2 instead of the current PR10 – that's the day you can dismiss PageRank as truly meaningless. Full Article Here