Well besides for bragging rights, it sure does’nt mean your website is popular.

When Google first introduced their now defunct Page Rank, there was finally a visual record that your website was on the map, you were somebody. The mere number indicated just how good your site was, basically the higher the PR, the more traffic.

Sadly it now means very little, besides showing your site is in google somewhere. What happened? I don’t think any one officially knows for sure, but I have a very good guess. Too many people once again tried to cheat the system. Inflating their Google PR through, usually, unethical means. Another good tool down the drain.

What does this have to do with anything? Don’t use Google PR as a judge of another websites traffic potential, as when looking for link trades.

How do I know for sure it does’nt mean anything? I’ve seen far too many PR 2 websites with more traffic than a PR 5, just as an example.

So the next time some one wants to trade links with you and all they talk about is their wonderful Google PR, well, you’ll know better. Your on the track.



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