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Originally Posted by Rochard
I had a PR of five, and it dropped to a PR of 3 - while traffic to it tripled. I don't see the value of a high PR when I'm getting more traffic with a lower PR.
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What you rank for and where is determined by a number of factors including what your competition is doing. PR is simply a numerical value which denotes the importance of a page. It does matter and you are essentially asking people to give you a disproportionate benefit where established sites are going to bleed PR and give you a good link with your desired anchor text, to a site which isn't going to give anything back. they could essentially make a domain live, throw up an image and write a blurb of text and link back to their own site wiht the anchor text they want and with no other outbound links on the page and there would be a significantly greater benefit.
In other words, if CNN links to your home page for "teen porn" and you link to CNN's home page for "Saddam Hussein" - your link is of zero consequence to cnn.com, while their single outbound link to you would most likely put you in the top 10 for "teen porn" while its on that page.
Further, your toolbar PR isn't the actual PR of the page... is simply a snapshot that's taken 3-4 times a year and doesn't reflect whats going on with your site at any given moment which is in constant flux and where circumstances may have changed significantly after toolbar was updated. The only way you can know the true PR of a page at any given moment is to crawl the entire web and run the formula for every page and every link on every page.
not meaning to give you a hard time... i was more just pointing out to the other guy something that's never discussed. that a PR4 trading links with another PR4 page doesn't necessarily mean its an equal trade. in fact, it really can't be.
conversely, it doesn't mean they don't both benefit from the trade in other ways (i.e. solid links from solid sites and topically relevant pages, with the right anchor text etc)