PR got updated from 2 to 3

[gofrugal]

I just checked and I see that my website has PR3.
Wohoo!!!!!, I am so excited.
Unfortunately traffic has almost no change, even lil less now.

[emd5005]

Congratulations on your updated page rank! Be patient with seeing more traffic- if you don't have a significant change within the next week consider updating your keywords- replace them with a few that are less competitive.

Let me know if you need any help with this, I'd be more than happy to share my techniques with you!

[gofrugal]

that will great, thanks.
Send you PM.

[flnazrael]

Unfortunately PageRank does not play nearly as much of a part in Google's algorithm as it used to. They've been decreasing its weight for quite some time. TrustRank is becoming a more important metric to them.

Also, you've been at a "3" (true PageRank can actually go into the billions, the 0-10 scale is a dumbed down logarithmic version Google exports to the toolbar), for a long time...Google just did another PR export a few days ago, the first one in several months. But your true PageRank is updated in real time. The 0-10 value is not a very good indicator.

[gofrugal]

I have to agree with flnazrael , by looking at the traffic.
What is other way of finding the strength and progress of website?

[flnazrael]

Track search engine traffic through analytics (which you already seem to be doing), and watch the frequency of your site's crawl rate. The more often Google crawls your site, the more trust it is likely to have. Other than that... ranking is the bottom line. If your positions for your target terms improve, then you're being successful.

[Mega B]

PR does not have the same standing as it use too but is really only used i guess for how much to charge people to advertise on your site its traffic that counts.

[MSwengel77]

Congratulations!! That will help your listing rank in Google! (which will bring more visitors in time)

[lwliang1]

So is there no correlation between Google page rank and search engine placement? Or is it just less important than it used to be?

And congrats on reach PR3, 2 of my sites are still at PR0 but one I've managed to get to PR2

[flnazrael]

So is there no correlation between Google page rank and search engine placement? Or is it just less important than it used to be?

I had a client with a PR1 site beating several PR5 competitors for their industry's primary search term in Google, if that tells you anything. (As of the last toolbar P R update they are now 3 though)

The weight given to P R has been declining for several years now. That system has been gamed so much, and also used as the basis for the link buying that Google has been trying to crack down on. It's one of the original technologies the two founders of Google based the algorithm on, but the company has since moved on to much smarter link metrics like TrustRank.

High PR sites often rank well, but people mistake the P R as the cause, when it's really the links behind it. If you get high quality links, your P R is probably going to go up.

There are still benefits to having high P R, but the smart money is on just building strong links from high quality, relevant sites in your field, and not worrying about ways to boost your P R. That will come naturally.

Besides, the P R everyone sees on the toolbar is not Google's real time value, it is literally months old (they do a toolbar update every few months). Also, real P R is not 0-10 - that is a logarithmic, dumbed down scale Google uses. Most SE Os believe that it's between 1.5 - 2 times as hard to get from one P R to another. So there is actually quite a large difference between a 5 and 6, for instance.