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Theres been a lot of debate about this recently since Google started to seriously penalize people for buying and selling links. What are your thoughts?

Hate is as you might, when you need a search engine, most of the time you or someone you know will google it, and if most people google it, then google's opinion of your site is important whether you like it or not. It's not an end of the world thing as they're other factors to it all, but for the point of view of their opinion yes, though saying that, I totaly ignore it.

I think the other important thing to consider is that the although little green bar you get in the Google toolbar, maybe be an indication of Google's perception of importance, it doesn't proportionately affect traffic or SERPs. You could have a PR0 website getting thousands of uniquie visitors a day from Google or you could have a niche PR6 page that gets just a few hundred a day.

I think google rank is important as it places value on your site and affects your ranking in search of major keywords.In long run it does affect traffic to your website.
Rajita
http://www.logodesignnewzealand.co.nz is a new site but since it got ranking it has started to get traffic.

Do you think it actually does affect ranking on keywords? Isn't it just a number, one that Google is fading out (or placing less emphasis on anyway?)

hi,
I think that it is importat . think this: if some can help you to improve your work ...why not to take a look to new ideas?

Yes fair enough. But the sad fact is you can effectively buy page rank, so maybe think like this: if you have lots of money, your website will get lots of visitors. If you are poor, then you will stay that way.

PR is important when you sell links on your site: the higher your PR, the more $$$ you get.

Now Google doesn’t like this (read their policies) and will lower PR when they “think” you sell links.

Sylvie hits the button when she says: “That would give everyone a better understanding of this whole ranking system”.

First and foremost advertisers should learn that PR doesn’t tell anything about how many visitors a website has.

Just compare the amount of visitors on FMB blog and DP blog: is DP getting more visitors since his PR is higher than FMB?

Then there are people that don’t want to link to a website with PR less than 4. That means they think a blog like FMB has no value… Which in my opinion is a huuuuuge mistake

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Page Rank is not a tool to gauge ranking strength of any website. So then why should you care?

It is just similar to Alexa Toolbar which shows the link popularity of any domain.

Read this article : http://blog.seohawk.com/page-rank-vs-trust-rank/

I am sure you would be surprised by the info provided in above article

I feel Google page ranking is very important.