You know, I always thought PR meant nothing – just because I thought it was a red herring (of a Fiji Mermaid – if you will) put out by Google. All the SEO’s said “get links from high PR pages and you will do well”. I thought F U – original content is king, written in normal non-seo language queen and if you can get 1 real link from a trusted sites NON- RECIPROCAL link page(related or not to your subject matter) is the Ace.
But after this last PR update, my audiobook publishing company’s website jumped up PR and it helped my other sites (that I actually make money with) in site rank, upped the number of hits and in turn the number of new players.
Now lets get caffeine rolling so we see where we stand – and then spend countless hours trying to get back to page 1 on Google, just to have Google say, ” We didn’t like caffeine, we will be reverting back to the old indexes.” Where we will spend more countless hours trying to get back to page 1.
So with my logic – PR does matter now – just because Goggle says it doesn’t.